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At the IBC Show, IBM Aspera will introduce an extensive set of product updates designed to provide faster, easier access to Aspera technology and to enable more customers than ever before to use Aspera’s industry-leading high-speed data transfer solutions.

As the growth in video production, content generation and media storage all continue to explode throughout the world, advanced transfer technologies have become absolutely essential to the daily operations of many businesses within the media industry. The pioneer of file transfer solutions, Aspera continues to aggressively expand its capabilities across all major clouds to provide scalable, reliable infrastructure with the global reach required to meet the needs of live broadcasts, on demand video, and OTT content solutions.

New product innovations have been introduced to ensure Aspera customers get up and running fast. The Aspera Streaming for Video solution, powered by FASPStream™ technology, now offers a new ability to quickly and easily launch and monitor connections within a simple web-based UI. We are also previewing the new Aspera Streaming for Video Connection Manager, which offers auto-discovery, management and monitoring of streaming devices to enable quick and easy live and near-live streaming globally over commodity internet, even when facing difficult network conditions.

New automation functionality within Aspera on Cloud helps users quickly configure event-driven transfer workflows. Organizations can streamline content delivery workflows by allowing transfers to be triggered by an action such as a submission to a Shared Inbox or shared folder, or an API call.

Built to revolutionize the way live and near-live high definition video is delivered, IBM® Aspera Streaming for Video software can replace or minimize the use of expensive satellite and dedicated fiber with the timely delivery of any bit rate video over unmanaged public internet. The underlying FASPStream protocol can also be seamlessly embedded via a set of APIs that enable a new, broader set of IP network and cloud-based use cases and workflows.

With the latest version of the software, users can quickly launch, stop and monitor video streams through a new web-based user interface.

A preview of the upcoming Connection Manager showcases a robust, easy-to-use web application in Streaming for Video that enables:

• Auto-discovery of network streaming devices for fast, simple set-up
• Centralized monitoring of streaming network devices (online/offline)
• Location status (online/offline) and management features
View devices, streams and connections from any vantage point (both sending and receiving locations)

Aspera’s data transfer ecosystem has grown substantially, providing the broadest, most accessible transfer technology to customers, partners, SaaS and software vendors, and appliance manufacturers. The technology powers over a hundred technology partnerships and joint partner solutions, including T-21 who has embedded Aspera’s technology into its appliances to rapidly and securely transport video with low overhead and low delay over the public internet. New this fall is the KnoxMediaHub solution that uses Aspera on Cloud for content submission into their SaaS distribution and management platform.

The Aspera on Cloud SaaS offering is now hosted in 28 data centers spanning all market-leading clouds around the globe. The service has been translated into multiple languages including Spanish, French, Chinese, and more. As a result, in the months since the April 2018 release of Aspera on Cloud, more than 2500 organizations have utilized the service to send, share and upload over fifteen petabytes of data across global distances and between multiple clouds. Growth of the Aspera customer base has also been fueled by a new ability to purchase through the IBM online marketplace in 59 different countries as well as through an expanded set of IBM global business partners and system integrators.

Several IBM technologies have also been updated to include easy access to Aspera’s high-speed transfer capabilities. The latest, IBM Cloud Object Storage, allows users to leverage the Aspera high-speed transfer technology to ingest data to the IBM Cloud by simply clicking a button. Customers can add additional Cloud storage targets as well as sharing and collaboration functionality when they upgrade to an Aspera on Cloud subscription.

Using IBM Aspera on Cloud, organizations can seamlessly access, send and share data stored across multiple clouds and on-premises data centers. Internal and external users collaborate over the data in a secure environment that tightly controls access to content and application functionality. Large files and data sets are transferred across storage environments using Aspera’s patented FASP® protocol and Direct-to-Cloud technology.