System Benefits

Intelligent, Time-Saving Digital Content Distribution:
Fast-Moving, Advanced Solutions from Generation Technologies

From a seasoned team of broadcast engineering veterans, the latest bundled solutions from Generation Technologies stand apart from the competition, bringing powerful networking capabilities, intelligent content delivery, and time-saving efficiency to newsrooms and broadcast facilities across the continent and around the world. We capitalize on the reliability and speed of private, IP-based, MPLS networks as well as satellite distribution technologies. Customizable software features let you adapt digital asset distribution and storage to your workflow and processes.

Our complete bundled solutions—including hardware, software, maintenance, and exceptional support—offer these benefits:

Quality content delivery at variable bit rates

Automated software compression capabilities intelligently adjust bit rates and the level of compression to ensure the highest quality video content at optimal delivery speeds. This capability also applies to the latest High-Definition Television formats.

Greater efficiency and timesaving in the broadcast facility

Each Generation Technologies solution includes built-in timesaving and laborsaving features. Automatic generation of slates, complete with representative JPEGs, to name a few, can eliminate hours of manual work daily. Software monitoring of network bandwidth levels ensures prompt delivery of top priority digital assets while filling in any transfer gaps with lower-priority assets to increase utilization of the network. Customized handling of content queuing, transmission, storage and archiving simplifies daily work demands.

Access to the latest technology advances

Automatic software updates and support for the latest codecs ensures continual availability to broadcast technology advances. Fast and effective software video encoding eliminates the need to perform expensive hardware equipment updates.

Workflow improvements with intelligent ager

The innovative Generation Technologies ager evaluates content usage on a station-by-station basis and correlates geographic data and use patterns to apply aging criteria to content. Available storage can be utilized efficiently with no manual intervention.

Generation Technologies also consistently wins accolades for the depth and responsiveness of our support network. Your digital assets are the lifeblood of your business—we’re available at any hour, every day of the year to make sure content is where it needs to be when you need it.