Broadcaster's News Department Selects Signiant to Accelerate Digital Media Distribution.- Signiant solution will connect global news bureaux and enable web-based content collection - BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Signiant([R]) Inc., the leading developer of digital media distribution management solutions for the telco, media and entertainment industries, today announced that BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News has chosen Signiant's Digital Media Distribution Management Suite (DMDMS DMDMS Digital Media Distribution Management Suite (Signiant) ) to enhance its digital content distribution strategy as the corporation moves further towards complete file-based workflows. The Signiant solution will provide fast, secure content delivery between the broadcaster's global bureaux and enable the system to handle large media files over internal and external IP networks. The solution also includes a web-based system to collect and prioritise Verb 1. prioritise - assign a priority to; "we have too many things to do and must prioritize" prioritize grade, rate, rank, place, range, order - assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food content received from the field. Signiant's software is the industry's only integrated solution that can simultaneously manage, secure, automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. and accelerate digital media workflows. It is specifically designed to help rich media content creators See content provider. and producers easily implement a digital media distribution strategy for their file-based workflows. The Signiant DMDMS, planned for deployment in March 2008, will be used to connect BBC News' global bureaux, enabling them to share stories quickly and securely. The web-based content collection component will be handled by the Media Exchange solution within DMDMS. It will ensure a consistent and robust transfer experience, whether sending content via the corporation's intranet, the public internet or via satellite link. It will also allow the news team to prioritise stories and allocate bandwidth accordingly. David Nortier, Managing Director, Signiant Europe, said, "In an increasingly competitive environment, news broadcasters need to receive breaking stories fast. It is imperative for BBC News to have a reliable content delivery system so that it can be first to receive the news from its reporters or 'citizen journalists', whether in one of its offices or in a remote geographical location, and then be able to share those stories across its global network. We are delighted that Signiant has fulfilled ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. the corporation's requirements." About Signiant Founded in 2000, Signiant (www.signiant.com) is the digital media supply chain company that telco, media and entertainment executives rely on to manage the movement of media to the right place at the right time. With its open software platform that unites best-in-class management, acceleration, automation and security technologies, Signiant ensures that some of the world's most recognized brands are able to deliver their digital assets and drive new revenue models. Signiant is headquartered in Burlington, MA with development facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Manchester, UK. Read the Signiant blog at http://www.digitalmediagalaxy.com. |
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