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SunUp Solution Benefits
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Total content workflow and lifecycle management
streamlines operation
- Automated content contract compliance reduces
workload
- Sophisticated offers are easy to create and implement
- Provides automated scheduling / distribution for
turnaround, barker, NVOD, Pay per View, and interactive services
- Simplifies and unifies operation of CAS, Middleware,
SMS
- Minimizes bandwidth use
The Challenge:
Today's DTH operator is facing new competition from
Telecom operators and elevated levels of competition from Cable
operators. Both are exploiting their delivery network capabilities
to provide new interactive services and High Definition services.
DTH operators are responding with a combination of additional Standard
Definition and High Definition services, innovative marketing and
promotions, advanced guide and offer presentation, and new next
generation interactive services.
However, added complexity makes the operation expensive
and error-prone at a time when costs need to be even more tightly
controlled. 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. Additional bandwidth
management is needed to cope with new HD content and data streams
for interactive applications.
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 CA, EIS, EPG, SMS, and other subsystems
to automate the operational workflow and provide the Content, Offer,
Service, and Resource Management needed for turnaround services,
in-house originated services such as Pay Per View and NVOD, and
interactive services.
Sunup software simplifies scheduling, making it easy to create
the day-parted and virtual channels that increase channel count
without adding bandwidth, and automates bandwidth management. 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
operational involvement
- Localization workflow support, including
subtitling and alternate languages
- Management of multi-lingual EPG
- 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
- Promo content lifecycle management
- Advanced tape library management including
automated bar code generation, location, and blank stock
management
- Scheduling
- A unified and sophisticated scheduling system
for what-if working schedules, multiple views of On Air
schedules, day parting, record schedules, etc
- Powerful tools for scheduling of NVOD, series
scheduling, promos and barker channels
- Automated management of last minute changes
- Integrated control of playout system, EPG,
CA, SMS, and compression system
- Record and time shift management
- Schedule Management and provisioning of
the broadcast channels, Mosaics, ads, and promos
- Automated import and localization of EPG
of turnaround channels
- Bandwidth management tools
- 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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