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RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Digital Rapids Announces Extensive Industry Support
and New Partnerships for Kayak Workflow Platform
September
7, 2012 — IBC 2012, Amsterdam, Stand 7.F33: Digital Rapids – the trusted
provider of innovative media transformation and workflow solutions for bringing
content to wider audiences – today announced accelerating industry
support for the company’s ground-breaking new Kayak™
dynamic workflow platform, with the addition of over 20 new companies to the
Kayak ecosystem since the platform’s public debut earlier this year.
The new alliances range from
technology and solutions providers to systems integration specialists.
Third-party companies with offerings spanning all
critical workflow functions – from codec technologies to tools for quality
control, audio loudness management, digital rights management and more – are
integrating their technologies directly into the Kayak platform. Meanwhile, systems
integration partners stand ready to work with media organizations to deploy
Kayak-powered workflows within their operations, including the development of
custom Kayak components for proprietary functionality.
The most recent participants in the
Kayak partner ecosystem include Automatic Sync Technologies; BuyDRM; Corpus Media
Labs; Digimetrics; DSB Consulting; Empress Media Asset Management, LLC; EZDRM;
Hitachi Solutions; Ignite Technologies, Inc.; Interra Systems; Irdeto; Manzanita
Systems; Minnetonka Audio Software; National TeleConsultants; PixelTools; R
Systems Inc.; Screen Subtitling Systems; Signiant; Solekai Systems; Tata Elxsi;
Venera Technologies and VidCheck. These companies join over 35 additional industry
leaders in Digital Rapids’ partner and alliance programs.
A number of these partners are
showcasing or announcing Kayak-based components and solutions at the IBC
exhibition in Amsterdam, including:
- Digimetrics’
Eos Audio Normalizer corrects, in a single pass, audio to ATSC A/85, EBU
R128 and ARIB TR-B32 specifications for regulatory compliance. Digimetrics
is also developing a Kayak component based on their Aurora quality control
solution.
- Interra
Systems’ Baton enterprise-class quality control solution verifies
file-based content passing through various steps of Kayak workflows for
conformance to format standards, regulatory compliance and a wide variety
of video and audio quality checks.
- Multiple
MPEG-related solutions from Manzanita Systems, including an array of multiplexers
– for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), the recently released MPEG-DASH
specification, MPEG transport streams and program streams – and the
CrossCheck™ automated transport stream analyzer.
- PixelTools
MPEG Encoder, providing high-quality MPEG-2 encoding for broadcast and IP
applications of content up to 16K by 16K frame sizes with support for
Closed Captions, AFD, CGMS, APS and Advisory Data insertion.
- Tata
Elxsi’s AAC-LC audio codec, with additional audio and video
pre/post-processing and codec components targeting broadcast workflows
also planned.
- Venera Technologies' PulsarBridge, providing an
interface between Kayak-based media processing workflows and Venera's
Pulsar quality control software for automatic media file verification.
Venera is also planning further Kayak integrations.
These new developments join Kayak
components demonstrated earlier this year, including audio and video encoding
and management solutions from Dolby Laboratories, DTS and Rovi’s MainConcept.
A significant departure
from other workflow technology approaches, Kayak enables media organizations to
design, deploy and manage customized workflows that empower their businesses
with the operational efficiency, agility and insight they need to thrive in the
expanding multi-screen media landscape. Kayak’s component-based architecture
and rich, open ecosystem provide customers with unparalleled ease in
integrating new technologies in response to market trends or new opportunities,
while its intelligent automation and dynamic deployment model maximize
processing efficiency, optimize resource utilization, minimize management
effort and reduce costs.
Kayak is available as a
comprehensive workflow design and development platform for systems integrators,
software developers and customers, and ‘under-the hood’ of Digital Rapids’
newest solutions for end-user applications, including version 2.0 of the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager®
high-volume media processing software and the StreamZ Live Broadcast™ integrated broadcast/multi-screen live
encoder.
“We’re thrilled with the tremendous
response from our solution partners and their excitement about leveraging Kayak
to integrate their technologies into leading-edge workflows and to extend their
market reach,” said Onkar Parmar, Senior Partnership Manager for Kayak at
Digital Rapids. “The richness of the Kayak partner ecosystem is one of the
platform’s key strengths, combining with its unique architecture to let our
mutual customers quickly integrate new technologies into their operations while
‘mixing and matching’ partner solutions to create the optimal workflows for
their needs.”
“Kayak enables a wide range of
applications, and providing a component that enables audio loudness correction
within the Kayak framework allows us to integrate seamlessly into a broad
variety of workflows and use cases without any additional effort from either
the user or vendor side,” said Eric Carson, Business Unit Manager of
Digimetrics. “In one word, this makes Kayak ‘revolutionary’.”
“Digital Rapids' Kayak platform allows
our mutual customers to quickly and flexibly integrate Dolby Digital Plus
premium multi-channel audio encoding and Dolby’s loudness correction technology
into powerful workflows to efficiently realize and differentiate their
multi-screen offerings,” said Jean-Christophe Morizur, Senior Director,
Professional Solutions – E-Media at Dolby Laboratories. “We share our
customers' excitement about the Kayak platform, and look forward to further
deepening our involvement in the Kayak ecosystem.”
“We’re excited to be working closely
with Digital Rapids to integrate our advanced audio technologies into the Kayak
platform,” said Ronny Katz, Sr. Director, Digital Media at DTS. “The customer
response to the joint UltraViolet and MPEG-DASH demonstrations we’ve conducted
has been phenomenal. The combination of Kayak and our audio solutions provides
a powerful, future-proof platform for our mutual customers as their needs
continue to evolve to encompass new standards, devices and market trends.”
“Manzanita Systems is enthusiastic to
bring our family of MPEG software solutions to the Kayak platform,” said Greg
Vines, President of Manzanita Systems. “We look forward to the benefits the
flexible ecosystem will bring to customers’ media processing workflows and are
eager to expand our contributions to the component library in the future.”
“We’re pleased that we can now make
PixelTools’ high-quality MPEG tools available to Digital Rapids customers for
use in their advanced media processing workflows through the flexible and
easily customizable Kayak platform,” commented Mark Conover, CTO at PixelTools.
“The innovative Kayak platform
provides a perfect opportunity for Venera to bring our QC technologies to
Digital Rapids customers, enabling them to enhance their media production and
delivery operations with content verification at various stages of their workflows.
The ease with which Kayak users can integrate our QC components into powerful
workflows is simply amazing,” said Fereidoon Khosravi, SVP of Business
Development , Americas at Venera Technologies. “The Kayak partner ecosystem
provides us with an attractive venue for showcasing our advanced QC tools and
expanding our market, and we’re very excited to be part of it.”
About
Digital Rapids Corporation – Digital Rapids provides
market-leading content transformation and workflow solutions that empower the
world’s leading media organizations to reach wider audiences more efficiently, more
effectively and more profitably. Recipients of more than two dozen prestigious
awards for company and product excellence, Digital Rapids combines innovative
technology with proven expertise and visionary insight to help our customers
expand their audiences, increase their revenues, and reduce their costs.
Digital Rapids Corporation (www.digitalrapids.com) is headquartered in Ontario,
Canada with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong,
Australia and Argentina.
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