Signiant manages Discovery content
January 31, 2009
Source: www.broadcastingcable.com
If you have ever wondered how the quality content of famous wildlife channel, Discovery, is efficiently distributed across the globe, your answer is here. Signiant, a digital media supply company, has proudly claimed that its digital content management software helps discovery organise the content flow over its worldwide network.
US based company, Signiant, specialises in making software to manage and deliver digital media content over wide-area networks. Lifetime and NBC are already using Signiant systems to regulate content between their branches. Discovery is using Signiant’s Content Distribution Management (CDM) software to coordinate its content in digital format right from its creation to telecast location. Discovery has been using the CDM to improve its post-production process for shows like Treasure Quest and Jockeys.
Telecasting the right content at the right time is very necessary to make quality shows for viewers. Signiant has assisted Discovery maintain a speedy flow of content with organised storage of its huge research and study material. Discovery has integrated its content library with Signiant’s CDM to relay the required content over branches located in Sterling, Virginia, Miami, Florida, London and Singapore.
Signiant’s CDM is presently supporting more than 8,000 users, with an around 250 users uploading and downloading files at a time. Discovery’s association has proved worthy for its quality standards as a lot of Signiants’s existing users and tool sets are common to Discovery’s usage pattern in producing wildlife content.
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