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INTRODUCING THE NAB SHOW EXPRESS
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NAB Show recently announced its new digital experience, NAB Show Express, taking place 13-14 May. Designed to engage the NAB Show community, it plans to offer 24-hour broadcasting on three channels, ensuring there is always something to watch, no matter the time zone. The show is offering three educational channels, on-demand entertainment and an exclusive Solutions Marketplace, featuring exhibitor product information, channels will mirror traditional NAB Show experiences. Content includes: y y BEIT Express, a channel focused on broadcast engineering and information technology. y y NAB Show Experience, offering announcements and demos. Powered by Brightcove and Frequency, the three education
The three free channels will each feature eight hours of content streamed daily and available on-demand to accommodate the global NAB Show audience. NAB Show Express is also offering the NAB Show signature podcast, which will feature relevant themes and prominent speakers. The digital platform will feature more than 100 educational sessions, including interactive panels and select sessions originally slated for NAB Show 2020 in Las Vegas, such as NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith’s State of the Industry address. The free NAB Show Express Solutions Marketplace will offer exhibitor profiles, company-hosted events, press conferences and special offers for those interested in exploring new products and exhibitor news. Resources, such as industry-related white papers, articles, webinars, guides and research reports, will also be available for those who register. Registration for the event is now open. To find out more, visit NABShowExpress.com
HARMONIC FREES UP EYEQ TECH TO ADDRESS CONGESTION The current global health crisis has given rise to rapid growth in network traffic, resulting in strain across global broadband networks. To address this and support its customers, Harmonic is providing its EyeQ content-aware encoding technology for free while the Covid-19 crisis continues. Harmonic’s EyeQ technology leverages AI to reduce streaming congestion on broadband networks by up to 50% without impacting quality. The company says it will prove particularly useful in combatting the recent surge and is a step above recently utilised methods, such as resolution and bit rate reductions. Shahar Bar, senior VP of video products and corporate development at Harmonic, said: “The demand for high-quality streaming services has exploded and has led to excessive constraints on broadband networks. Adding our EyeQ technology to the mix can greatly decrease bandwidth consumption for high-quality video, alleviating strain on local and national broadband networks. “By offering free licences for the expected lockdown time frames, Harmonic is providing an effective tool to help media companies and broadband networks alike.” Ulrik Rohne, VP media networks at Net Insight, said: “Zixi’s software-defined video platform and best-of-breed protocol extends Net Insight’s ability to securely deliver broadcast-quality live video at scale for our customers, regardless of network, device or cloud infrastructure.” John Wastcoat, SVP alliances at Zixi, added: “We are thrilled to announce Net Insight as part of the Zixi-enabled network, facilitating interoperability of hundreds of devices, over 100 countries and 80,000 end-points across the world.”
a variety of educational sessions, product innovation showcases and interviews with industry trailblazers.
y y Tech Talks, a NAB Show Live Special Edition, produced by
Broadcast Beat and showcasing relevant conversations with NAB Show community influencers.
NET INSIGHT netinsight.net
NET INSIGHT JOINS ZIXI-ENABLED NETWORK
towards an OTT playout model. OTT has reduced the time and cost to serve consumers with content, and many broadcasters and pay-TV providers are looking to IP and cloud for content acquisition and delivery. Net Insight has said that this new content acquisition workflow needs to deliver on the premise of traditional professional media acquisition: high quality and reliability, low latency, hyper scaleability, and interoperability, as well as cost efficiency.
Net Insight is joining the Zixi-enabled network to strengthen its offering and better serve existing and new customers alike with interoperable content acquisition workflows. The move will also make it easier to acquire and distribute content over public clouds, such as AWS. According to Net Insight, consumer demand for instantly accessible, personalised, immersive content has radically shifted the content delivery
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