Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
September 24-25

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MediaXstream will provide live digital and HD video transmission services for the 2009 G-20 Economic Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.  Customers can take live transmissions back to their production centers either directly on the MediaXstream network or via interconnect with additional networks at major video switching centers in North America and the United Kingdom.

“Technical strategies for addressing network latency in live and remote HD news interviews”

Date: November 18, 2009

Time:

10am-10:45am (pacific)
1pm -1:45pm (eastern)

Presented by:

Wayne Price, CTO MediaXstream
Daniel Diep, Director Network Architecture

Broadcast Issue:

Latency in networks is as unavoidable as gravity. The technical challenge is to find the right combination of forces to overcome the risk of unnatural pauses during interviews that can result in less than perfect air-time.

Discussion:

• Understanding how latency is induced by various compression techniques (MPEG2, MPEG4, JPEG2K) in combination with network architecture
• Developing technical strategies to address network latency in live and remote news interviews
• Optimizing solutions for your business that balance the tradeoffs between quality and cost

RSVP today:

Sign-up to attend by completing our convenient online Enrollment Form. Once enrolled we’ll send you the url and log-in instructions. You will also receive reminders to attend in the days just before the event.

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Smallville, a CW show, is the modern retelling of the Superman legend and its classic characters. The producers blend realism, action and emotional depth to reveal a new interpretation of the enduring mythology. Now entering its 9th season, the show continues to enjoy critical and commercial success.

Business challenge:

Warner Brothers Television and Deluxe need to marry remote shooting and post functions in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, with the editing and approval functions in Burbank, California.

For television serials, production is all about delivering product on-time, every-time. That means producers, post-supervisors, editors and studio executives in Burbank are focused on workflow control and production deadlines. As a result, the director and crew in Vancouver need to balance creative needs, quality and show costs with delivering the product on schedule.

That’s a tall order if the show is relying on the “Fish Flight” everyday between Vancouver to Los Angeles. An additional day of lag time is needed to distribute review dailies on VHS and DVD media as well as edit dailies on hard drives. Quality and data integrity risks are elevated due to the need to compensate for the transportation of physical media.

MediaXstream Solution:

Warner Brothers Television uses MediaXstream Managed Workflow Services to manage its Smallville Digital Dailies process. MediaXstream connects disparate elements of the workflow seamlessly between the Vancouver and Burbank production teams using network connectivity, content and format orchestration techniques for play list assembly, and a non-linear Digital Dailies player application.

Collaboration between Vancouver and Burbank and back again is accelerated in a tightly managed closed loop that includes the director, producers, writers, editors, and post-supervisors. MediaXstream Managed Workflow Serivices eliminate the additional day of lag time without sacrificing creative quality or risking data integrity.

Outcome: Better product.

Accelerating collaboration in the workflow using MediaXstream managed network connectivity enables Warner Brothers Television to streamline play list assembly and deliver rough cuts faster (often the same day as shooting). This immediately helps the director with quality and continuity issues for episode revision. Longer term, this supports more productive review sessions and improves the creative writing process for storyline development, foreshadowing, and episode creation. MediaXstream Managed Workflow Services is a critical element helping the Smallville production team create better product season after season.

Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic submarine transport cable
provider, and MediaXstream, Inc., a premier provider of high definition (HD)
network services for broadcast, media & entertainment announced today that
Hibernia will provide MediaXstream with multiple 10Gbps wavelengths of capacity
from North America to Dublin and London. Hibernia`s redundant and diverse
transAtlantic cable is an ideal vehicle to ensure MediaXstream`s high definition
media services are delivered securely throughout the European marketplace.

“MediaXstream caters to the media and entertainment industries, so we need to
ensure that our network services are transported with the highest quality
routing and security,” states Delwin Bothof, President and CEO of MediaXstream.
“We deliver high-definition, pristine video transmission and live event
transmissions across the Hibernia network that we trust. This network is managed
24/7 with our Television Operating Center (TOC) in Baltimore as well as
Hibernia`s dual NOC in both Dublin and Boston and in all four cable landing
stations. Hibernia`s unique routes across the Atlantic Ocean bypass traditional
terrestrial choke points near New York/New Jersey and London which makes it an
ideal choice for our high volume, high quality secure traffic. Hibernia`s team
of network professionals understands our content requirements and continues to
provide innovative network solutions for us.”

“Our two companies share the same common interest,” continues Bjarni
Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic. “To ensure that we provide our
customers with the best quality of service. With this in mind, MediaXstream
provides a managed service in DTM (Dynamic synchronous Transfer Mode), an
optical transport technology, to efficiently control the transport of video
content. Simply stated, MediaXstream operates dedicated media networks and
offers media-centric solutions developed for video and broadcast companies.
MediaXstream and Hibernia Atlantic now bridge high quality DTM service between
North America and Europe to seamlessly interconnect broadcasters and media
enterprises on both continents. We look forward to supporting MediaXstream as
they continue to emerge in this booming marketplace.”

For more information on Hibernia Atlantic`s secure and diverse network, please
visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com. For more information on MediaXstream`s smart
media services, visit www.mediaXstream.tv.

Schedule an appointment to meet with MediaXstream.

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We’re just across the street from the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

MediaXstream provided live digital and HD video transmission services for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration events in Washington D.C. from the MediaXstream demarc at the AVOC. Customers took live transmissions back to their production centers either directly on the MediaXstream network or via interconnect with additional networks at major video switching centers in North America and the United Kingdom.

Our no-hassles ordering process:

• Call MediaXstream at 866.697.3261.
• Services reservations are based on availability
• Reservations are confirmed by receipt of an executed Service Order
• Installation and tech services fees may apply in addition to Occasional Use Video transmission charges

MediaXstream is the new leader in highly reliable contribution quality live video for broadcasters. We specialize in transporting flawless digital and HD content in its native formats demanded by leading news organizations.

]]> http://mediaxstream.tv/upcoming-events/2009-presidential-inauguration/feed/ http://mediaxstream.tv/network-news/mediaxstream-launches-commercial-operations/ http://mediaxstream.tv/network-news/mediaxstream-launches-commercial-operations/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:35:42 +0000 admin http://mediaxstream.tv/?p=50 San Jose, California – April 7, 2008. MediaXstream, Inc., a new venture that provides carrier-neutral, high quality transport and managed network services for the production and broadcast industries, today announced the launch of commercial operations. Contribution quality video signals from event venues in 17 major markets can now be transported to regional and national broadcasters for redistribution to consumer audiences.

Led by Del Bothof as President and CEO, the management team is a highly experienced group of industry veterans recognized in the production and broadcast media marketplace. Using state-of-the-art optical switching and Dynamic Transport Mode (DTM) technologies, MediaXstream’s service platform is ideal for customers who generate and manage media content. “The network is specifically designed and built to deliver customer solutions for media,” said Wayne Price, CTO MediaXstream. Customers can specify optimized solutions for contribution quality collection of content and forward distribution of content between businesses engaged in production and broadcast. “Customer service is our number one objective in Operations and that’s the reflected in the way we built and operate the Television Operating Center,” according to Wes Hanemayer, Vice President Operations MediaXstream.

A true high definition viewing experience starts with delivering a dedicated contribution quality signal to producers and broadcasters. “Multi-service public and commodity IP platforms are not optimized to drive the high definition viewing experience demanded by the marketplace,” said Del Bothof, CEO MediaXstream. “We are building a portfolio of contribution quality business-to-business services so producers and broadcasters can deliver the images that cameras actually see.”
Cliff Friedman, Chairman of the Board MediaXstream, added “We are focused on capturing a strategic inflection point in the market between media, communications and technology. Bringing together digital media technologies with a company like MediaXstream creates an industry platform for content creators to innovate programming services economically.”

Additionally, MediaXstream was formed in partnership with AboveNet Communications, Inc and Hibernia Atlantic US LLC; media savvy companies capable of investing the resources and assets necessary to build an international network footprint suitable for the needs of the production and broadcast industries.

Tom Kemp, CEO Secure Media Solutions said “We are a natural fit with MediaXstream. The
MediaXstream DTM network offers a services platform with inherent qualities that film and
production companies demand – security, native high definition transport, and high QOS
reliability.” Film and production companies can simultaneously ensure quality of product while
reducing the complexity of managing network implementations for each project.

“With over 10 years of experience serving hundreds of video productions and feature films for the
top content creators in the industry, Secure Media Solutions has distinguished itself for enabling
effective workflows with services that are transparent to the creative process,” commented Del
Bothof, CEO of MediaXstream. “Expanding the availability of those services across the growing
footprint of the MediaXstream network offers new opportunities for the industry to cost effectively
address the urgencies of production.”

MediaXstream is currently operational in 17 major markets in the U.S. It is expanding operations
to over 30 North American markets and London to serve the growing demand for High Definition
video networking and production services by TV and film production, sports, news, mobile content
and IPTV.

Video network specialist MediaXstream has chosen Hibernia Atlantic for its transatlantic capacity requirements. The deal is for multiple diverse 10Gbps wavelengths from North America to London and Dublin, and further extends MediaXstream’s young DTM video network such that it can serve customers with European needs. And who is MediaXstream? That’s a question I asked myself, until I ran into a familiar name in its CEO Del Bothof.

Bothof, telecom and broadcast infrastructure followers surely recall, was the head of Wiltel’s Vyvx for years, after which he resurfaced at Broadwing and spearheaded the development of their DTM video network. Both of course became part of Level 3 Communications (LVLT: chart, news), and I had wondered what happened to both Del Bothof and the Broadwing DTM network but never followed up. Well now I know - roughly a year ago he got started with MediaXstream which apparently hit the ground running. Their network happens to look a heck of a lot like the video network he built for Broadwing - it’s even managed out of a NOC in Baltimore. I’m curious about the circumstances, I’m guessing Level 3 didn’t continue with the DTM plans so Bothof picked up the ball and ran with it, but I don’t really know. Anybody?

The pairing makes a lot of sense for both Hibernia and MediaXstream. The northern transatlantic route has low latency which is vital to the delivery of HD video feeds to Europe, and Hibernia’s unique footprint on both continents allows them to handle the on and off ramps as well.