Anystream, Inc. - Turning video streams into revenue streams



Anystream Agility 2G

Anystream Agility 2G from Grab Networks™ is now available: the next generation of automated video production
and management solutions for digital video media, Agility 2G combines Anystream’s nine years in the business
and experience serving 700 major media customers with a complete new set of enhancements to improve
performance for today’s demanding environments of real time availability, HD quality and the complexity
of new media distribution.

AGILITY 2G ENHANCEMENTS INCLUDE:
 

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Increased reliability with no single point-of-failure and automated fail-over and recovery that
digital video businesses can trust for mission-critical applications at the core of their operation
  •   Scalability including two to three times more throughput to tackle the increasing demands
of HD and the workflow complexity of new media distribution
  •   Usability and flexibility through a new consolidated UI that can easily to adapt to dynamic
business requirements


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Figure 1. New and improved Agility2G architecture: optimized for reliability and scalability

RELIABILITY TO WITHSTAND THE CHALLENGE OF
MISSION-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS
 

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High-availability architecture with no single points-of-failure
      – Fully redundant Enterprise Control System (ECS) management layer and media processing layer
      – Automatic and programmable task resubmission
      – Floating license model to distribute jobs to available computing resources automatically
      – Node standby control of offline spares
  •   Automated fail-over and recovery
      – Stateless ECS process management for outages and restarts
      – Elegant recovery to reprocess only specific tasks within a failed job
      – Task restarts for specific ECS failures
      – Performance settings for specific workers and tasks
  •   Enhanced diagnostics & reporting
      – Extensible logging system in a centralized console for viewing events
      – ECS error/event categorization
      – Customizable logging methods, e.g., http, email, database
  •   User error protection
      – Role-based user administration and security
 
SCALABILITY TO MEET THE ADDED THROUGHPUT DEMANDS
OF HD AND REAL-TIME DELIVERY
  •   Multithreaded management processing for greater throughput
  •   Web 2.0 Framework to support distributed video applications and interfaces
  •   Built-in connectors for most standard databases
  •   Separate reporting and production databases to improve throughput
  •   Job and profile attributes to enable dynamic network partitioning
 
USABILITY & FLEXIBILITY TO QUICKLY ADAPT TO CHANGING
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
  •   Intuitive Web 2.0 user interface for self-guided and role-based remote access
  •   Consolidated and integrated UI for profile management, security, and network configuration
  •   Centralized profile maintenance and update propagation with intelligent, object-based profile editing
  •   Modular ECS for rapid propagation of processing task modifications with minimal impact on running applications
       
Visit www.anystream.com/Agility2G_info.aspx to learn more.
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