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The Challenge
: The Solution : The
Result : Purchase
You're a provider of hotel video-on-demand
(VOD) services to hotels in many locations across the
globe. Your traditional method of distributing movie
resources to the hotels via manual delivery of DVD's
is costly and highly inefficient and does not scale
to accommodate new locations without a large number
of human resources and high operational overhead.
Now you're seeking a solution
that:
- Enables
the digital distribution of a continuously updated
library of movie assets to thousands of hotel locations,
preferably using satellite links
- Supports local Pay TV services
within each hotel location
- Supports automated playout
of a dynamically updated movie library using pre-defined
display scheduling across multiple channels
- Guarantees highly secure and
highly reliable distribution and playout of the movie
assets
- Supports targeted movie distributions
to groups, such as those based on the movie's language
or contractual obligations including distribution
and playout rights
Castify Broadcast Network (CBN)
™ is Castify Networks' software-only Consumer IPTV
Platform for enabling large-scale digital media delivery
solutions. CBN makes
possible the rapid, scalable and cost-efficient deployments
of digital delivery platforms for implementing Hotel
VOD, Digital Cinema, Broadband IPTV, and other digital
delivery solutions to consumers worldwide. All you need
are the following products from Castify:
In a CBN-powered Hotel VOD deployment:
- Each hotel location runs Castify's
C-Router software, the CBN component that manages
the reliable, secure reception of each movie transmission.
- 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.
- Within each hotel, movies
are automatically broadcast on the hotel's existing
cable network for true video on demand or pay-per-view
in each room.
- 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 hotel locations, in any of today's popular
video formats, including Windows Media 9, Real, MPEG2
and MPEG4.
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A Hotel VOD Solution Running
on Castify's CBN Consumer IPTV Platform:
- Easily integrated
- Full suite of integrated tools
- Rapid deployment
- Open to all media
- Highly scaleable
- Easy content insertion
- Easy control from central location
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A Hotel VOD solution powered by Castify's CBN
platform offers important benefits over other
competing solutions:
- Full End-to-end Solution:
CBN 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 Hotel
VoD solution with highly reliable and secure
distribution and delivery of movie assets to
remote hotels, and embedded PayTV software enabling
fully customized display scheduling.
- Highly Reliable and
Secure: A Hotel VOD solution based on CBN
is highly reliable and secure environment for
the distribution and delivery of movie assets
to remote hotels, with full support for embedded
PayTV software to enable fully customized display
scheduling.
- Supports All Media
Formats: CBN is open to all media formats
and scales to many thousands of receiving hotels.
- Easy Targeted Distribution:
Castify's CBN Hotel VOD solution supports
movie distribution to targeted groups of hotels
or geographies. This key feature enables Hotel
VOD service providers to distribute movie assets
based on language and contractual engagements
with the film distributors.
- Easy Content Insertion:
Castify's solution offers simple and easy
insertion of movies into the network because
Hotel VOD service providers do not need to confer
with their satellite service provider to initiate
the distribution of films to hotels. Instead,
Castify's solution provides Hotel VOD service
providers 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
Deployment: Castify's solution ensures easy
installation and configuration at each remote
hotel 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
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Contact
Castify for information about deploying a Hotel
VOD solution using Castify's CBN
platform.
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