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LAS VEGAS — The list of companies exhibiting with Aspera at the NAB Show is almost as long and distinguished as the number of partners the IBM-run company has. And there’s good reason for that, according to François Quereuil, senior director of worldwide marketing for Aspera.

“Being part of IBM, and effectively working with competitors, like Google and Microsoft Azure, is due to market demand,” he said. “Consumers don’t want to be stuck with one cloud provider.”

A visitor to the Aspera booth could spend hours going over everything the company debuted at NAB:

• The Aspera transfer platform, a software solution for file transfer, synchronization, and streaming of digital assets.

• New advancements in the latest generation of the Transfer Server software version 3.7, and the upcoming version 3.8, including core FASP transfer performance and security, optimized scale-out options, and new capabilities to transmit live video and data streams.

• A new Aspera application suite of software products and SaaS services.

• A new multi-cloud SaaS offering, which embeds the Aspera Transfer Service (ATS) with out-of-the-box support for all AWS and IBM Bluemix infrastructure regions and data centers, and early access for Azure (with support for Google Cloud Storage soon coming soon).

• A new streaming platform with technology that can support any streaming provider without modification, and across platforms.


• Newly expanded management and workflow automation applications.

• New APIs for Aspera Files SaaS, Aspera Shares, FASPStream, Connect, and Faspex.

• And a preview of the new Aspera Analytics service.

Signiant

Signiant launched three platform advancements, with new developments in accelerated transport to the cloud, universal access for the ecosystem, and new storage options.

The company’s new transport architecture includes a patented scale-out architecture that can deliver multi-Gbps throughput to cloud storage, allows customers to easily move transfers using interfaces they already know.

Signiant also introduced upgraded functionality that enables users to access their files on any device anywhere, without the need for new software. And on the storage end, the company shared that it’s now offering support for S3-compatible object storage offerings that come from Dell EMC, NetApp, Quantum and others.

You.i TV

For You.i TV, the addition of Vimond to its partner program was its big news at NAB, with the collaboration expected to put together back- and front-end resources for video providers looking to launch direct-to-consumer services.

You.i TV and Vimond will provide SVOD and TV Everywhere solutions using the Vimond Platform (a multi-tenant architecture with tools and controls for multi-format OTT services), and the You.i Engine experience platform (which makes available top video apps at scale).

Vimond currently provides the platform for several TV Everywhere services, including Thomson Reuters, Swedish TV4 Play, TV 2, RiksTV and NRK in Norway, MTV in Finland, and C-More in Northern Europe.