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The Challenge
: The Solution : The
Result : Purchase
You're a film distribution service
that distributes movies and film to many theaters and
cinemas across a widespread area. Until now, your distribution
methods have relied on manual delivery of movies and
films to theaters, but due to the large overhead cost
associated with this approach it has become too costly
and remains a highly inefficient way to scale your business
to increasing numbers of customers.
What you need is a solution that:
- Supports the digital transfer
of massive digital movie files in very low to very
high bandwidth environments, over lossy satellite
broadcast channels
- Offers guaranteed digital
delivery deadlines and delivery dates
- Provides highly reliable transmissions
in all broadcast conditions, with highest efficiency,
intelligent retransmission of failed packets to ensure
the fastest possible transmission of the entire file
contents
- Optimizes the use of available
bandwidth to ensure the most efficient use of available
resources
- Provides the highest security
for all transmissions
- Comes with easy-to-use, integrated
real-time monitoring and reporting tools to track
content status
Castify Broadcast Network (CBN)™
from Castify Networks is a software-only Consumer IPTV
Platform for the easy deployment of large-scale digital
media delivery solutions, including highly scalable
and cost-efficient Digital Cinema and other digital
delivery solutions to consumers worldwide.
In a Digital Cinema solution powered
by CBN:
- Each cinema runs an installation
of Castify's C-Router content server software. C-Routers
coordinate local storage of the digital movie files,
as well as playout, scheduling, deletion and replacement
of movies according to the broadcast policies for
each film.
- At each cinema, movies are
automatically broadcast in the theater's existing
IP network for automated playout in each theater.
- CBN's control and management
component can be installed anywhere with a connection
to the satellite uplink, and is used to securely and
reliably distribute each film via satellite to the
remote theater locations, in any of today's popular
video formats, including Windows Media 9, Real, MPEG2
and MPEG4.
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A Digital Cinema Solution Running on Castify's
CBN platform:
- Integrated content and network management
tools
- Highly reliable and secure
- Open to all media formats
- Highly scaleable
- Easy targeted distribution
- Simple and easy content insertion
- Highly reliable transmission
- Full control from central location
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A Digital Cinema solution powered
by Castify's CBN Consumer IPTV Platform offers important
benefits over other competing solutions:
- End-to-end Solution: CBN's
Digital Cinema solution integrates end-to-end content
and network management and monitoring software components
and tools into one solution, enabling the rapid deployment
of a full-featured and complete Digital Cinema network.
- Highly Reliable and Secure:
CBN enables highly reliable and secure distribution
and delivery of movie assets to remote cinemas and
theaters, with embedded playout software to enable
the automatic display of movies on each theater's
movie screens.
- Open to All Media Formats:
CBN is open to all media formats and scales to
many thousands of receiving theaters and cinemas.
- Easy Targeted Distribution:
Castify's CBN IPTV solution supports movie distribution
to targeted groups of theaters or geographies. This
key feature enables movie and film distributors to
distribute movie assets based on differentiating factors
such as language and contractual engagements.
- Easy Content Insertion:
CBN offers simple and easy insertion of movies into
the network because movie distributors do not need
to confer with their satellite service provider to
initiate the distribution of films to hotels. Instead,
Castify's solution provides each film distributor
with a small desktop application tool that enables
them to insert movies to the uplink from any location
connected to the satellite service provider's uplink,
and to then track each movie's distribution status
in real time using periodic Distribution Status reports.
- Easy Large-scale Deployement:
CBN ensures easy installation and configuration
at each remote theater location and provides ease
of management and control of a large, geographically
distributed install base from a single point in the
network.
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How It Works
Contact
Castify for information about deploying a Digital
Cinema solution using Castify's CBN
platform.
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