Castify Networks – a former business unit of Omneon, Inc. – was acquired by Aspera in July 2009. Castify developed state-of-the-art, patented technologies to deliver optimal performance, with full scalability and openness to new and emerging content standards and formats. Now Aspera Europe, the Castify team will be working at integrating their key technologies – content distribution software and reliable multicast technology for satellite and IP networks – to build innovative new products that will define the next generation of content delivery solutions.
With Castify, Aspera adds new products and technologies that expand its end-to-end software solution portfolio, enabling enterprises and service providers to build scalable, easily managed, and cost-efficient service acceleration and content delivery platforms over the Internet and on Intranets. Taking advantage of advanced reliable IP Multicast, WAN acceleration technology, network management, and bandwidth control, Castify enables organizations to initiate, monitor, and manage the delivery of content either as file transfers, progressive downloads or real-time streams. Key technologies developed by Castify include:
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Request Redirection: Castify DirectBeam™ is a patented request redirection software technology that directs user requests to the nearest available router.
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Distributed Scalable IP Overlay: Castify solutions deploy on top of existing network infrastructures to form an optimal, transparent distribution overlay network that supports both unicast and multicast connectivity.
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Reliable Multicast: Designed for satellite and IP multicast networks, Reliable Multicast guarantees arrival for all multicast transmissions, to receivers with and without feedback channels, with integrated conditional access encryption, at lowest cost of bandwidth.
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Bandwidth Control: Castify's bandwidth controls enable senders to easily reserve bandwidth for their transmissions, while system administrators can restrict C-Router bandwidth to receivers.
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Storage Control: Customizable account storage quotas in every Castify content delivery platform cap the volume of content that senders can store in the system, while automated alarms ensure that administrators and account holders are informed when storage limits are reached.
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Integrated Management: Castify's integrated management technology means that all content network components are managed and configured from a single central point, with automatic software updates ensuring synchronized, seamless evolution of the content network.
Contact information for existing Castify customers
Customer service for Castify products is now handled by the Aspera technical support team, online, via email and telephone.
E-mail: support@asperasoft.com
US: +1 510 849 2386
Europe: +33 4 93 00 87 16
Omneon ProCast CDN
Originally developed in conjunction with Castify Networks, Omneon ProCast CDN software is a content distribution solution for easily managing and accelerating the secure movement of digital media content between multiple locations. Regardless of distance, ProCast CDN ensures that content is moved as fast as possible, enabling maximum use of available network bandwidth and topology. Aspera is now working closely with Omneon to integrate next-generation fasp file transport technology with ProCast CDN.
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