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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 T h u r s d a y , A p r i l 2 1 , 2 0 1 6 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. 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. THE LTO PROGRAM LAUNCHES TAPE MEDIA SHIPMENT REPORT The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Quantum released the total industry LTO Ultrium format tape media shipment data, announcing a record 76,000 PB (compressed) of total capacity shipped in 2015 alone, an increase of 17.8 percent over the prior year. The milestone, announced in tandem with the launch of a new report showing both 2015 and year- over-year generational data, provides a clear picture of the long-term viability and importance of tape in today's rapidly shift- ing storage environment. The report also showed more than 385,000 PB of total data capacity has been shipped since the introduction of LTO Ultrium cartridges in 2000. A petabyte (PB) equals roughly four times the amount of data contained in the Library of Congress. For an understanding of the amount of data shipped to date, multiply the amount of data in the Library of Congress by 385,000, and imagine all of that data stored on tape. The report shows significant increas- es in year-over-year total capacity shipped aided by the introduction of LTO-7 prod- ucts, which were made available to the market during the last quarter of 2015. Shipments in 2015 reflect a small decrease in media unit shipments over the prior year, which is typical as the market antic- ipates the introduction of a new genera- tion. The year-over-year unit shipments are offset by the total capacity shipped in the same period, indicating that tape usage is migrating to higher capacity LTO-6 and LTO-7 technologies. "Tape continues to serve IT profes- sionals in many industries with low cost, and secure and reliable data storage, espe- cially for longer term applications," said Jason Buffington, Principle Analyst, Data Protection at ESG. "With LTO-7 technol- ogy recently coming onto the market, we're expecting a continued use case for the technology in many industries, as well as adoption in new industries seeking ways to safely store rapidly increasing data." The reports are available on the LTO Program website at www.lto.org. MASSTECH PORTAL FOR AVID STREAMLINES PATH BETWEEN EDITING, ARCHIVES Masstech, the trusted provider of inno- vative, advanced workflow and media asset management solutions, announced Masstech Portal for Avid, a new software offering that streamlines media interchange between Avid's Media Composer editing systems and Masstech-managed media archives. Users can archive, restore and flatten content simply by dragging and drop- ping it between their Media Composer and the Masstech Portal, eliminating manual steps and workflow obstacles that distract from creativity. Avid sequences and master clips are archived easily by dragging and dropping them from the Media Composer interface into the Masstech Portal. Valuable metadata is preserved, with customizable mapping between Avid and the Masstech media manage- ment system. In addition to job status monitoring, the Portal also provides immediate notification of issues such as unrendered effects and offline media in the Avid sequence that would impede the archiving process, giving users valuable feedback not possible in typi- cal, hot-folder based workflows. Finding and restoring archived media is equally intuitive. After search- ing the archive directly in the Masstech Portal, editors simply drag and drop the assets they want to restore into Media Composer. Users can perform complete or partial restorations of archived assets, and choose to retrieve the origi- nal high-resolution media or low-res proxies. Masstech's archive manage- ment engine automatically retrieves the content from whichever storage tier it resides on, whether online, nearline or deep storage such as an LTO tape library – completely transparently to the user. Masstech's proven solutions and advanced technologies enable media enterprises to flexibly and efficiently save, share and transform their content into valuable assets as they manage exponentially growing volumes of media. Organizations of all sizes rely on Masstech for file-based workflow solutions that tangibly improve their productivity while lowering their costs. For more information, visit www.avid.com or www.masstech.com.