euNetworks, a provider of bandwidth infrastructure services in Europe, today announced it has expanded its Media Connect solution into Manchesters MediaCityUK. This investment delivers customers a seamless network experience from London through to Manchester and onwards to Europe, with diversity and true scalability.

Pixspan, Inc., the leading storage and bandwidth workflow technology company, will unveil its PixMover¢ software package at NAB 2016. As 2K, 4K and 6K proliferate in the media and entertainment space, PixMover¢ enables users to manage massive amounts of full-resolution files and uncompressed camera raw data while achieving a 50-80% saving on storage and bandwidth with no loss of image quality. 

Qligent, a specialist in cloud-based, enterprise-level media monitoring and analysis, has a message for North America broadcasters facing repack: Be prepared to understand the impact that UHF channel sharing or moving to VHF will have on your headend distribution, signal throughput and program quality.  

Faroudja Enterprises will demonstrate how its F1 Video Bitrate Reducer platform can lower video bandwidth while preserving quality through all current compression standards. Being shown publicly for the first time at NAB 2015, the encoder-independent F1 platform will be available for beta testing in Q3 2015 as a Cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS).

The IBC2014 show marks the first integrated demonstration by GatesAir of LTE Mobile Offload, a unique model for supplementing capacity for live TV and other popular video services for bandwidth-constrained mobile networks.  The advanced model benefits both broadcast and mobile operators, maximizing spectrum use and cultivating new revenue models and business relationships; and reducing costs, expanding reach and preserving bandwidth.