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Broadcast, Media & Entertainment

Switch Media can help you maintain your competitive edge in the rapidly changing broadcast industry.

Showcase your content in high or standard definition.  Deliver to PCs, Macs, iPads, tablets.  Consider providing your viewers a download and ‘watch later’ service.  

 

IPTV, Catch Up TV, Subscription on Demand


Switch Media can help maintain your competitive edge in the rapidly changing broadcast industry. Showcase your content in high or standard definition. Deliver to desktops, laptops, iPads, tablets. Consider providing your viewers a download and ‘watch later’ service. Take a look what others have done.


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Video Content Management

 

Stay in control of your content with Switch Media’s Video Content Management System (VCMS) where you can upload, encode, edit, tag, schedule, publish, organise and archive thousands of hours of video and audio content.

 


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Transcoding to Web, Mobile and IPTV formats


Take advantage of Switch Media’s single-pass and two-pass encoding technology and give your audience true Internet TV experience each time. Our systems take your media in most formats and auto-generate the optimal format and bitrate for each viewing device.

 


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Video Portals & Mobile Apps


Switch Media can design and build the User Interface for your Catch Up TV/ Online Channel service to reflect your brand style, for viewing on any device : iPad, internet connected TV, Apple or Android device.

 


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Digital Rights Management (DRM) for streaming and download


Switch Media can protect your downloaded content for viewing on multiple platforms and devices whether it is a PC or a Mac, a connected TV, Android or Apple and do the same for content that is progressively downloaded or streamed.

 


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Live Events


Switch Media delivers live video with multi-bitrate streaming to the highest quality that best suits your viewer’s bandwidth, player size and device.

Live event streaming     Webcasts      Integrated moderated chat

 


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Monetise

We offer a variety of advertising formats - including banner ads, pre-rolls, post-rolls, interstitials, overlays – to integrate with your existing ad server and ad inventory.

Switch Media also integrates with your existing subscriber management system and e-commerce engine, to cover both pay-per-view and subscription transactions.

 


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Viewers as content providers


Enable your viewers or advertising partners to upload content to your site from various devices.

 

 


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Real Time Analytics

The Switch Media platform makes analysing your videos simple, accessible and always up to date. The Analytics module lets you  make informed marketing decisions about viewer habits and retention by giving you immediate access to charts, tables and reports that segment your demographic by location and video ID. 

 

 

 


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Turn On, Tune In & Catch up to live! Progressive Encoding

 


Online Catch-up TV that only Switch Media and the internet can deliver.  Give your viewers the ability to ‘catch up’ on the part of the live stream they missed, before jumping forward to the present time.  Or for events with tight release timeframes, give your premium viewers exclusive access to videos on demand while they are still being encoded.

 

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Data Security
 


Switch Media uses the highest level firewall and encryption to secure your content. We partner with data centres that are ISO27001 certified which means that your digital assets are protected with the highest-level of security certification and best practices.

 

 

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Data Centres
 


Formal monitoring, logging and event management processes are employed in the data centre to maintain world class levels of technical support.

  • Mantraps, keycard protocols, biometric scanning protocols and round-the-clock interior and exterior surveillance monitors protects access to the data centres.
  • There is constant supervision of all doors, riser cupboards and plant rooms with CCTV including motion detection and fixed cameras with digital recording capability and HDD archive.
  • UPS power, back-up systems, and N+1 (or greater) redundancy.
  • Robust Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning (HVAC) system handles the demanding cooling requirements of high-power density deployments.
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Systems and Link Redundancy
 


Switch Media's Tier 1 architecture provides fully redundant and diverse Internet connectivity, protecting against fibre cuts and router outages. Our platform services are distributed and replicated across multiple data centres to guarantee service uptime. Additionally, product software and infrastructure is updated regularly with the latest security patches.

Switch Media data centres uses the latest virtualization technologies combined with SAN architecture to ensure the highest possible utilisation of our infrastructure. All servers and networking devices are in a redundant configuration allowing for total failure of any component with minimal effect on uptime.

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