Tyrell Delivers Agility 2G to Pepper Post.
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DUBLIN, December 10, 2009 - Tyrell CCT, a leading creative technology solutions provider for the broadcast and post production industry, today announced that the company has provided Pepper Post, a major UK post-production facility, with the innovative Anystream Agility 2G multi-node encoding and workflow solution from Grab Networks. This highly scalable encoding solution, together with the customised workflow designed by Tyrell CCT will enable Pepper Post to offer their clients a flexible and fast video encoding service. The investment will initially be used by Pepper Post for the transcode of content for their client Projector TV. Projector TV is a new IPTV/VOD platform that specialises in world cinema, independent movies, documentaries and international television programming.
Anystream Agility 2G from Grab Networks was built to meet the demands of the rapidly changing video industry, and over the past decade it has become the preferred on-demand video production and workflow management tool. The Agility 2G solution provided to Pepper Post comprises of four nodes running across blade servers, managed from a single web user interface. The system can transcode up to 100 films a day from materials delivered by content providers worldwide and has been designed by Tyrell CCT to provide Pepper Post with an automatic encoding and delivery workflow. The powerful encoding engine enables immediate transcoding to commence whilst the content ingest is still occurring, allowing the facility to greatly increase efficiencies.
Agility 2G is built on a node- based architecture which provides unmatched scalability, performance and reliability. Agility 2G supports input from any production or post-production source and also includes a wide range of ingestion and output formats such as H.264, Silverlight, Windows Media, MPEG-2 and Flash. The encoding solution also provides in-depth monitoring tools which constantly check the health of the system, virtually eliminating downtime. Agility 2G achieves a market-leading level of throughput capacity via grid processing for processor intensive codecs, such as H264 and HD resolutions.
"Anystream Agility 2G gives us significant transcoding abilities and a scalable architecture to respond to a growing market," commented Shane Warden, Joint Managing Director, Pepper Post. "We now have the ability to offer fast and flexible encoding and transcoding services at any level and volume."
"Tyrell CCT has designed a customised workflow to meet Pepper Post's media requirements, not just for Projector TV but for any of their video content providers," commented Nick Soper, Technical Director, Tyrell CCT UK. "Agility 2G allows customers to effectively meet the challenges of greater throughput, better and faster availability and more rapidly changing distribution requirements that are inherent in the fast growing on-demand video marketplace."
About Tyrell CCT
Tyrell CCT is a leading provider of creative technology solutions for the broadcast, post production, education and corporate sectors. Established in 2000, Tyrell CCT represents leading suppliers in the areas of video, audio, graphics and storage. Tyrell's strengths combine over 60 years of industry expertise, a broad portfolio of industry leading products, a dedicated system integration division and a highly experienced technical support team. For more information, visit Tyrell at www.tyrell.ie.
About Pepper Post
Pepper is one of the leading broadcast post-production facilities in the UK. Combining the talent of our highly experienced award winning operators and the industry's most advanced equipment we offer a bespoke picture and audio post-production service. Founded over 10 years ago, Pepper has grown into a highly regarded, well-respected brand within the film and broadcast industry with purpose-built state of the art luxurious picture and sound facilities in Soho London. We pride ourselves on truly understanding the needs of all genres of modern productions.
About Grab Networks
Grab Networks uses its decade of expertise in broadband video to address the monetization, challenges facing content owners, publishers and advertisers today with a single platform to extract produce, index, manage, publish and syndicate video. Born from the merger between Anystream and Voxant Media, Grab Networks marries the largest base of content with the largest distribution and syndication network. With 700 media clients, two million licensed assets, a network of 50,000-plus affiliates, and numerous honors including the Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award, PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award finalist, Entrepreneur Magazine's "Hot 100" list and Deloitte & Touche's "Fast 50." Grab Networks is the clear leader in online video that touches all corners of the online video world.