Visual Unity offers a good vu

Multi-screen specialist Visual Unity will place a strong focus on mobile devices at this year’s CABSAT.

The company will demonstrate its vuMedia family of products that include four modules namely, vuChannel, vuDemand, vuMobile and vuNet.

vuMedia helps manage, automate and monitor multiscreen delivery. Through its four robust and scalable modules, it claims to deliver a web-based and mobile viewing experience, comprehensive VOD services and secure distribution – all of which can be seamlessly deployed into existing workflows. vuChannel is fully integrated into the station backend and supports web-based and mobile viewing; vuDemand supports comprehensive VOD services including billing & reporting; vuMobile enables mobile-optimised content, application and interactive marketing tools to effectively engage mobile audiences and vuNet provides secure content control over distribution and user-experience management.

At CABSAT, Visual Unity will lay greater focus on vuNet, which is deems most relevant to Middle East broadcasters. vuNet provides a robust and secure infrastructure to effectively ingest, manage, monetise and distribute assets.  It connects seamlessly with global CDNs and cloud-based services. However, in regions such as the Middle East where cloud access is unavailable, expensive or may be unfavourable to the content owner, clients can benefit from Visual Unity’s own Content Delivery Network (CDN), with a current installed capacity of more than 100 GBps and almost 400 TB storage space. Capable of supporting tens of thousands of concurrent users, the CDN provides coverage across Europe and Central Europe, including Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania and Visual Unity has recently established pops in Dubai, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.