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SunUp Solution Benefits
- Total content
workflow and lifecycle management streamlines operation
- Automated
content contract compliance reduces workload
- Sophisticated offers
are easy to create and implement
- Automated scheduling / distribution
for turnaround, barker, Pay per View
- Asset management for on-demand
services
- Simplifies and unifies operation of DRM, Middleware,
SMS
The
Challenge:
IPTV service providers face intense competition. Cable and Satellite
providers are usually already entrenched. IPTV service providers
have an advantage, though. They have the advanced, switched delivery
infrastructures that provide the latest television services needed
to win subscribers. Many telecoms can offer the quadruple play – video
to the mobile phone. A full offering of broadcast and interactive
television services combined with a wide variety of marketing offers
ensures the differentiation that leads to success. However, the
necessary content and offer management is complex. Content comes
in more forms and formats than ever, with more and more complex
contracts attached, and is delivered in more service offerings
than ever before. Innovative marketing requires the synchronization
of many subsystems in the digital headend. For Video to the Mobile
services, content management becomes even more critical due to
the increased quantity and shorter lifetime of the content.
The SunUp Solution:
SunUp's open and modular software applications
streamline and automate content management, ensure contract enforcement,
and make sophisticated offer management simple. They unify and
extend the capabilities of existing Middleware, VOD and other subsystems
to automate the Operational Workflow and Content, Service, and
Resource Management needed for turnaround services, in-house originated
services such as Pay Per View, VOD, and interactive services. Content
distribution for VOD systems is automated. An open, configurable
suite of applications streamline the following
operational tasks:
Key Features:
- Contract Management
- Collects and organizes all
content provider contracts
- Manages compliance to contract provider
contracts
- Template-based financial modeling
- Automatic calculation and posting
of provider payments
- Asset
Factory Management
- Manages content
ingest workflow to minimize operator involvement
- Localization
workflow support, including subtitling and alternate
languages
- Management
of multi-lingual EPG
- Metadata management and packaging for
VOD
- Offer/Entitlement Management
- Unifies offer management
with the DRM, Middleware, and SMS for EVOD, SVOD, VOD,
or multi-product offers
- Tiering and packaging of broadcast channels
- Complex sports blackout
and spot scenarios
- Entitlement control for Clear-To-Scrambled
transitions, OPPV, IPPV, etc
- Asset Management
- Automated lifecycle management
of content for ingest, distribution, and purging
- Integration with
pitcher/catcher content delivery systems
- Verified rule based
content delivery to remote servers
- Promotion lifecycle content
management
- Advanced tape library management including automated
bar code generation, location, and blank stock management
- Scheduling
- Sophisticated scheduling system accommodating
last minute changes
- Integrated control of playout system, Middleware,
DRM, and SMS
- Record and time shift management
- Broadcast and barker channels,
ads, and promos management
- Automated import and localization
of EPG of turnaround channels
- Resource Management
- Automated redundancy across
multi-vendor subsystems within a facility
- Automated backup
from facility to facility.
- Exception-based service and content
monitoring
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