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B r o a d c a s t e r s S h o w D a i l y 9 M o n d a y , A p r i l 1 8 , 2 0 1 6 OCTOPUS NEWSROOM INTRODUCING VERSION 8 SOFTWARE, OCTOPUS APP OCTOPUS Newsroom, Europe's leading developer of television broadcast news- room automation systems, introduces Octopus 8 at booth #SL8427. The com- pany has successfully installed news- room systems into more than 200 chan- nels around the world. These include net- works such as Root Sports in the USA, Mediacorp in Singapore, Al Jazeera English (worldwide), Euronews in France, India Today Group and RBC in Russia. "With audiences expecting to watch, hear and read bulletins on their choice of device and at their choice of time, we have focused development on making the sharing of news items and information across departments easier and faster than ever," comments Chief Executive Officer Petr Stokuč. "Octopus 8 enables users to collaborate with other teams and deliver stories in multiple formats for the widest possible audience. It streamlines opera- tions and workflows so that all necessary production information, including news sources, clips and stories, is now avail- able to at a glance." "Pressure on journalists to hit dead- lines is enormous and continues to increase," adds Sales Director Gabriel Janko. "Octopus 8 features a new dash- board GUI which brings together every assignment, notification and update. Until now, newsroom solutions have treated social media as an add-on feature. With Octopus 8, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are fully integrated into the newsroom. Social media is now treated with the same importance as a traditional news feed or a programme rundown. This is a big advance which reflects the huge importance of social networks to channel owners and audiences world- wide." Octopus 8 gives administrators the ability to assign users to create content for social media. Tweets and Facebook posts are treated like any other news story with team managers able to assign and share tasks, and to approve posts before they go live. Journalists can now follow Twitter trends and track topics of particular interest to them across the social network in real time. The research process is now automated, giving teams instant information and analyses trends over time. Editors can tweet, reply, re- tweet or favorite directly from Octopus as well as manage the channel's relation- ships by following or blocking Twitter users. With audiences increasingly using the internet for their news, media organi- zations are under ever increasing pres- sure to publish stories to the web. Octopus 8 directly interconnects with CMS systems such as Wordpress or Joomla, allowing scripts and articles to be uploaded dynamically to web portals. This new web component enables TV news editors to upload pages directly, saving time and reducing the workload on web managers. Another new feature is the ability to publish social media posts directly from the rundown. Also making its NAB Show debut, the new Octopus Mobile App offers jour- nalists full news production capabilities on tablets and mobile phones running Apple iOS or Google Android. Reporters and editors working remotely gain instant access to all wires, rundowns and assign- ments. They can also edit stories within a rundown, preview prompter text as well as create wires and reports in the field. The new app supports both Octopus 8 and the most recent versions of Octopus 7. For more information, visit www. octopusnews.com. EDITSHARE ACCELERATES COLLABORATION WITH NEW STORAGE SOLUTION EditShare, a technology leader in intelli- gent shared storage and media manage- ment solutions, announced XStream EFS SSD, a powerful, scalable shared storage solution engineered for the extreme bandwidth requirements of uncompressed 4K and HD post-produc- tion as well as Digital Intermediate (DI), VFX and finishing projects. Debuting at NAB 2016 and on display at EditShare booth #SL9716, the new product extends the award-winning EditShare EFS platform by combining Solid State Drives (SSD) with a new architecture that scales from a budget-friendly 8TB all the way up to 5PB+. "With the launch of XStream EFS SSD, we are offering our customers a great new option to support their ultra high-bandwidth projects," states Andy Liebman, Chief Executive Officer, EditShare. "EFS SSD is based on the same high-performance architecture as our very successful high-availability EFS flagship platform. The new solu- tion can easily manage multiple streams of uncompressed 4K – even in formats such as DPX and EXR that can reach 1800 MB/sec – and can quickly scale as bandwidth and storage needs grow. We have designed the system so it can live alongside an existing spinning disk infrastructure, making the migration to high-bandwidth 4K/UHD cost efficient and seamless." The XStream EFS SSD design employs advanced small-feature-size NAND Flash modules (SSDs) to achieve exceptionally high perform- ance, reliability and low power con- sumption. Equipped with either 40GbE or 10GbE LAN technology, EFS SSD can be the basis of a dedicated UHD production environment, or it can be integrated with an existing 10G or 40G production infrastructure. Liebman adds, "Clients can choose from a range of semi- to fully-populated server con- figurations as their current needs dic- tate. And then, as their 4K business grows, XStream EFS SSD users will have the option of pay-as-you-grow expansion." Available in 8TB, 16TB and 24TB chassis configurations, XStream EFS SSD scales from single servers to multi- node clusters capable of providing many PBs of capacity. All configurations deliver an easy-to-manage single global namespace, storage capacity that can be upgraded at any time and Native Client connections that offer vastly improved performance and availability when com- pared to SMB and AFP network proto- cols. In addition, like its HDD-based cousins, XStream EFS SSD supports high-availability system configurations that protect media data and metadata from hardware disruptions. Like all EditShare shared storage solutions, the new XStream EFS SSD system seam- lessly integrates with the EditShare Flow production MAM, which allows users to log, track, search and retrieve 4K/UHD assets across online, nearline and offline EditShare storage platforms, as well as with AirFlow, the web brows- er component of Flow that lets remote users browse, search, download and upload assets to support the review and approve process as well as remote edit- ing. XStream EFS – High Performance Storage Platform for All Your Workflow Needs Since shipping at NAB last year, the XStream EFS high availability shared storage solution has become the core storage platform of choice for many of the world's most successful facilities and productions, including WMHT, Sid Lee and RedSeven Entertainment. Powerful, affordable, easy-to-manage, highly reliable and highly scalable (5PB+), XStream EFS online media storage can cope with exploding media volumes, high data rates and the com- plexities of today's collaborative pro- duction workflows. With the latest Native Client support delivering increased performance and resiliency, EFS is the only platform to combine efficiency, high bandwidth and exten- sive fault-tolerance (metadata, media data and hardware redundancy). About EditShare EditShare is a technology leader in net- worked shared storage and tapeless, end-to-end workflow solutions for the post-production, TV and film industries. Its groundbreaking products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include video capture and playout servers, high- performance central shared storage, archiving and backup software, media asset management and Lightworks – the world's first 3-platform (Windows/OS X/Linux) professional non-linear video editing application. For more information on EditShare XStream EFS SSD and XStream EFS stor- age solutions, visit www.editshare. com. C-COM RECEIVES TYPE APPROVAL FROM AVANTI FOR 1.2M KA MOBILE ANTENNA C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., the leading global provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, announced that it has received type approval for its iNetVu[R] Ka-1202G antenna system from Avanti Communications. Avanti is a London-based leading provider of satellite data communi- cations services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The iNetVu Ka-1202G mobile anten- na, along with its new advanced 7710 auto- acquire controller, was able to deliver in excess of 10Mbps upload and up to maxi- mum modem capacity 59Mbps download rates using an iDirect X7 Satellite Router with 3W transceiver during the tests. "We are pleased to see our latest 1.2m auto-deploying antenna added to Avanti's Approved Compatibility list," said Bilal Awada, Chief Technology Officer of C- COM Satellite Systems Inc. "The system was tested using 3-axis motorization, allow- ing the user to operate within the same Ka beam or to roam to adjacent beams with auto-polarization switching function." The iNetVu Ka-1202G system is C-COM's third vehicle-mounted antenna that has been approved to operate on Avanti's HYLAS 1 and HYLAS 2 Ka-band satellites. About Avanti Communications Avanti is a carriers' carrier, selling whole- sale data telecoms products to service providers which use it to create networks for enterprise, carrier, government and con- sumer users. Avanti's network consists of two high throughput satellites in orbit, called HYLAS 1 and HYLAS 2, a multi- band satellite called Artemis plus a fourth and a fifth satellite in construction called HYLAS 3 and HYLAS 4 and an interna- tional fiber network connecting data centers in several countries. Avanti Communications has GEO satellite network spectrum filings in the ITU Master Register for Ka-band at 33.5 degrees West and 31.0 degrees East and for Ka, Ku, S and L-band at 21.5 degrees East. Avanti Communications serves customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa. For more information, visit www. avantiplc.com.