Callisto and Leitch Partner to Deliver "News-In -A-Box"
"News-In-a-Box" was designed as a package solution to provide newscasters, faced with the business imperative to create Internet ready content that more quickly reaches this new distribution medium. Initially targeted at small to mid-market broadcasters, this integrated solution contains the necessary tools for establishing a turnkey ‘Internet-ready newsroom'.
Based around the Leitch VR Server series, the NIB solution provides for both low-and-high resolution video and audio acquisition, low-resolution browse and edit integrated online editing via the NEWSFlash™ editor, as well as rundown to air with or without control of the newsroom automation system. Callisto's Voyager which was designed for the Sun Enterprise™ server and Solaris™ operating environment forms the all-important video server backbone to provide a Video-on-Demand streaming solution for the web.
Once a story has been finalized in the editing process, the content is encoded to create a media clip for that particular story. Callisto's Voyager has the unique ability to access Leitch's video database and relevant meta-data and re-purpose the video for distribution over the Internet, allowing broadcasters and news providers to more efficiently take advantage of new delivery mediums.
"This is only the beginning of what we see as a long and integral relationship with Callisto, melding Leitch's expertise and leadership in the broadcast and news market with Callisto's wealth of knowledge and direction for delivering high output, scalable IP ready solutions," said David Veldman, Newsrooms and Editing products, Product Manager.
Callisto, a leader in scalable video server solutions will be providing its Voyager product, an IP based Video-on-Demand (VoD) system that provides the functionality and scalability to broadcasters to deploy and scale an Internet based news service. This partnership with Leitch will open up new opportunities for Callisto and Leitch in the broadcast markets.
"News-In-A-Box" provides streaming capability which is a key element for customers' wishing to integrate news into their Internet strategy," explains Margaret Craig, President of Leitch Incorporated. "Being a solutions provider means that the customer has more time to concentrate on business strategies."
"This partnership brings together two world-leading video companies in a venture to provide turnkey Internet video services to the broadcast market. By combining our expertise and resources and delivering a solution for the reliable Solaris platform, we have made possible the development of a media distribution solution at the very leading edge of Internet services", said Bruce Fischer, President and CEO, Callisto Media Systems.
"The combination of technologies from Callisto, Leitch and Sun effectively converge traditional broadcast environments with distributed solutions for the Internet," said Bill Correll, Group Manager, Interactive Media at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "By leveraging Sun's high performance servers and storage systems, Callisto and Leitch are providing broadcasters with a reliable means of distributing video to a whole new medium."
About Leitch Technology
Leitch provides leading-edge solutions to store, switch, distribute, convert, and otherwise process high-quality audio and video signals. Applications for Leitch products span the broadcast, Telco, cable, post production, Internet and business-to-business markets. Leitch is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with other key offices in Virginia, California, United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. For more information, please visit the Leitch web site at: www.leitch.com
About Callisto Media Systems
Callisto specializes in IP video server solutions based on Callisto's proprietary Voyager Interconnect Architecture (VIA) on the Sun Microsystems' platform. Callisto's "Voyager" product is a flexible, scalable, modular Video-on-Demand (VoD) system capable of scaling to deliver thousands of simultaneous video streams and storing large amounts of digital video content on a variety of storage media. Callisto's "Voyager" addresses the emerging digital video distribution markets for high-performance VoD services for consumer, corporate, educational, institutional and Interactive TV markets in partnership with Sun Microsystems. For more information on Callisto, please visit our web site at: www.callisto.ca
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