Our deep understanding of digital media technology,
creative design plus our heritage in broadcast TV enables us to
design and deliver specialist online media solutions backed up with
robust technology and rigorous project management.
Sometimes you can't find exactly the solution you need. That's
where we step in.
- A custom encoding farm
- An online video store integrated with your billing system
- A secure corporate video platform extended to sales teams 'on
the road'
- Or even a telectroscope ....
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We know where to turn to get the exact equipment you need, and
integrate it with your workflow. We can also work with your
existing system integrators, where perhaps only part of
the requirement involves online video, in a closed network on or
the internet.
From internal corporate broadcasting using existing
infrastructure, to reducing bandwidth through multicasting and
caching, we've got the experience.
And although we'd love you to show you our online platform
MEDIAFREEDOM, sometimes there's a better solution,
and we'll tell you what it is and why.
Case Study
BBC Radio on the iPlayer
Challenge
Receive incoming audio from BBC Radio and encode it to a variety of formats before delivering to the BBC internet infrastructure ...within five minutes of broadcast, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Solution
Realising that no 3rd party encoding product existed that met all of the requirements of the BBC, Twofour designed an entire live and on-demand encoding farm from the ground upwards, working with leading companies such as Fraunhofer and Adobe. Critical to the solution were extremely high availability, full integrated monitoring and rapid processing of content together with the need for swift adoption of new formats, as required by the BBC's business needs.
Twofour installed and configured over 100 servers, to create this custom encoding farm, within the BBC’s secure network at Broadcasting House to provide all of the audio (live, on-demand and podcasts) of BBC Radio for the iPlayer. This complex project required significant consultancy, major network installation and configuration
Result
The system has been working reliably since December 2008 delivering live and on-demand audio
The iPlayer now offers better audio quality and delivers content to more devices than ever before
Video
Key Features:
- Personalisation which links with the BBC's recommendation engine,
- Content filtering for relevant content ensuring greater brand loyalty