Streambox to Provide Fleet of Avenir Mini Devices and Newsgathering Platform to Support New CNN Indonesia Operation

SEATTLE, Sept. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Streambox, the leading provider of solutions for mobile video anywhere, today announced a deal to provide 80 (eighty) Streambox Avenir devices with Signal Extenders to CNN Indonesia, a 24-hour news channel just starting, as a result of a strategic partnership between Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc. and PT Trans Media Corporation, one of the largest media corporations in Indonesia. 

Streambox Avenir Mini IP network bonding encoders with GPS capabilities provide realtime location services via the Streambox Cloud for coordinated breaking news coverage for CNN Indonesia. The Streambox core video technology, ACT-L3/L4 compression with LDMP reliable multi-path networking, is designed to perform in challenging environments for live video transmissions over cellular networks. 

"We were looking for a complete solution with a long history of providing high performance and high quality," said Johnny Yeung, Technical Director, CNN Indonesia. "Streambox met all of our requirements for our mission critical broadcast needs and we are excited about bringing a world-class 24-hour news channel to Indonesia."

"We are pleased that CNN Indonesia chose us to provide the mobile newsgathering solutions and backend infrastructure for their network," said Bob Hildeman, CEO, Streambox. "We have over a decade of experience supporting other CNN operations and likely that history of success played into the decision to use Streambox solutions."

Proven End to End Solutions and Global Support Make a Winning Combination
The Streambox solutions for live and file-based video are based on the industry-leading ACT-L3/L4™ codec with LDMP networking which provides unrivaled performance, reliability, and quality over low data rate IP networks for fast transmission and playout of video streams in HD and SD. Streambox end-to-end solutions enable broadcasters, government agencies, enterprises and other users to enhance their content ownership, simplify operations, and increase operational efficiencies.

Customers across a wide range of industries and business sectors rely on us for mission critical broadcast and broadband applications. The scalable Streambox Platform can be integrated into all IP-centric operations using a variety of wired and wireless IP networks.

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