EMERYVILLE, CA — At NAB in Las Vegas next month, Aspera (www.asperasoft.com) will showcase new capabilities to its Aspera Transfer Platform that allows post facilities to efficiently transfer and synchronize content of any type, resolution and size across cloud and on-premise systems at global distances, enabling them to address increasingly complex production workflows.
These capabilities include Aspera On Demand Platform, which supports the transfer and synchronization of the largest ultra HD files or millions of small files direct to cloud storage and seamlessly integrates with every major cloud storage provider; Auto-Scaling Transfer Platform, which automatically scales and expands transfer capacity of Aspera server software in the cloud to meet actual demand; Aspera Drive and Aspera Drive for Mobile, both designed for content producers, creative teams and other end users of the Aspera Transfer Platform, Aspera Drive for Windows and Mac allow them to remotely browse, drag-and-drop transfer, sync and exchange person-to-person rich media content and files directly from the desktop. Aspera Drive Mobile extends the transfer and sharing capabilities to iOS and Android devices. Aspera Orchestrator includes new plug-ins that have been added to the library of over 50 third-party applications, and can be invoked within an Aspera Orchestrator workflow, including support for ADI.XML Cablelabs verification, DPP format validation, ISM and M3u8 verification, thePlatform media management, Vidchecker verification, MediaInfo and SNMP monitoring. New inline file validation capabilities added to Aspera server and client software verify incoming media and metadata formats against ADI and DPP standards.