MediaDS™ Garners Installation “Best of Show” at ISE 2017
By Jim Bask
From NewTek
NewTek™ is honored to report that Installation International has announced the NewTek and Wowza™ MediaDS™ as a “Best of Show” award winner at Integrated Systems Europe 2017, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. MediaDS is the first local and global media distribution platform, the bridge between Program Out on your switcher and your audience on any device anywhere in the world.
MediaDS is also for producers looking for a way to bring live and recorded content to the popular content delivery networks, including Facebook Live, Microsoft Azure, UStream, YouTube, Wowza, and more. MediaDS includes easy presets for these services plus a wide selection of others. And that’s just for starters: a fully integrated hardware and software solution merging NewTek’s industry-leading live production technology with powerful Wowza streaming software, the MediaDS makes it possible to deliver content from any production—or production system—directly to viewers, no additional services required.
Offering multi-channel streaming with 4 independent video channels and support for any combination of SDI or NDI™ video sources, MediaDS effectively democratizes video encoding and streaming for producers of live and linear programming and introduces a myriad of new opportunities for distribution, expansion and content monetization.