SES Platform Services selects Xstream to enhance VoD platform delivery
January 20, 2014
Xstream, the premium provider of OTT and TV Everywhere services, has announced that SES Platform Services, a leading service provider of play-out and content management services for broadcasters and media companies has selected Xstream’s award winning management system, Xstream MediaMaker, to power their existing Video on Demand delivery platform.
The OTT video solution created by Xstream will enable SES Platform Services to offer their customers the market’s most flexible multi-tenant platform for the delivery of videos to Video on Demand platforms and to a wide range of devices, supporting all business models, worldwide. Additionally, the solution features several custom-made RESTful API’s for a number of innovative and powerful integrations and features.
“Xstream’s innovative and proven platform, their impressive track record, flexibility and ability to act as a solution partner, made them a natural partner and first choice for us” said Dr Frank Hoffmann, Chief Product Officer at SES Platform Services. “Importantly, thanks to the flexibility to customize and interface with our existing ingest-, transcoding- and metadata-engine, we are able to create precisely the kind of solution we need to offer a state of the art video management and delivery solution to our customers”
Using Xstream MediaMaker™, SES Platform Services will dramatically simplify their customers’ workflows, enabling them to take full control of the entire ingest, and delivery process.
“We are very excited to partner with SES Platform Services and to know that a leading global service provider has endorsed Xstream and our services this way” said Frank Thorup, CEO at Xstream.” Xstream MediaMaker™ is designed to work in parallel with legacy TV systems, leveraging existing infrastructure investments while, at the same time, be flexible to integrate with any other third party solution. The innovative multi-tenant OTT solution we’re developing for SES Platform Services is a clear proof of the systems flexibility to adapt to the customers needs.”