Case Studies
Inlet continues to work with video professionals to build encoding solutions for a broad range of digital media applications such as adaptive streaming, video-on-demand, dailies, distance learning and high definition content creation. Use these case studies for tips on how advanced encoding can optimize your own opportunities for digital media creation and distribution.
Check back frequently as we add to this list. If you have an example of how Inlet products are changing your workflow or business, e-mail us.
NEW! Inlet and Akamai deliver for the Festival de Cannes - At Inlet, we are proud to have been chosen by our strategic partner Akamai to help with one of the most prestigious celebrations of film in the world - the Festival de Cannes. For 2010, the Festival and Akamai decided to offer even more content and more streams to site visitors, including iPhone and iPad users. Add these formats to the other eight stream variations created for the Akamai HD Network for Flash offerings, and you have some tall encoding tasks to tackle. To meet this need, Akamai worked with Inlet to architect and deliver the most efficient and productive media processing pipeline, leveraging the Fathom platform.
NEW! Video Case Study: AEG Digital Media and Inlet Technologies: Engaging Audiences - Discover how AEG Digital Media’s technical expertise and production capabilities combined with Inlet Technologies’ Spinnaker™ real-time streaming appliances provide the very best in content delivery and live streaming, and how they have been the driving force behind events like The Masters, the AMGEN Tour of California, IGN’s coverage of E3, the FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Concert, MTV Movie Awards, and countless other high-profile events.
MTV "Gorillaz" Concert, UK -Combining the real with the virtual has become the hallmark of cartoon band Gorillaz. So, it’s no surprise that the band’s first live concert in London since 2001 should be a multimedia extravaganza with fans following the performance via a live MTV Webcast. The sold-out show at Camden’s legendary Roundhouse was streamed live to audiences around the world by MTV using Inlet Spinnaker encoders supplied by Garland Partners Ltd (GPL) of the UK.
NBC Olympics - How NBC, Microsoft and Inlet came together to bring an HD Smooth Streaming experience to online viewers of the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Also, see Microsoft's separate Olympics case study and white paper.
Southampton University Elections - Southampton University in the UK wanted to stream their student elections live. Inlet's UK reseller partner Garland Partners Limited provided student union live streaming partner Inqb8r with Inlet's Spinnaker encoder to stream the content live onto the web.
NBC Sunday Night Football - Inlet was selected to power Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Live Smooth Streaming for NBC’s Sunday Night Football games during the 2009 season.
France Télévisions - France Télévisions wished to offer tennis fans in France an online high definition (HD) experience of the 2009 French Open to complement their extensive coverage on its three broadcast channels. France Télévisions partnered with Microsoft, Inlet Technologies and Level 3 Communications to deliver the event online in HD, using Smooth Streaming technology. This was the first live HD Smooth Streaming public event in the world.
Major League Baseball Advanced Media - MLBAM chose Inlet to help them upgrade their live streaming infrastructure in order to deliver the video quality and interactivity their fans wanted while meeting the business’s stringent operational requirements.
Heritage Auction Galleries - Heritage, the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer, wanted to bring an instant-on, interactive online video auction experience to auction goers. Heritage worked with Inlet Technologies and Adobe to develop
Heritage Live, based on the Inlet Spinnaker Professional Live Streaming Appliance, Adobe® Flash® Media Interactive Server, and Adobe Flash Player software.
Trinidad Media Services - Inlet provided Trinidad Media Services, a provider of end-to-end solutions for digital media processing, with an encoding solution that could meet the needs of their demanding environment today and in the future.
Microsoft Studios - Inlet's Fathom has made real-time HD encoding a reality, allowing Microsoft Studios to cut production time by 75%, and to encode “live” from tape into the preferred Windows Media format.
Modern Video Film - Using Inlet’s Fathom, Modern Video Film is now one of the first Hollywood post houses to offer real-time HD encoding as part of their services.
Ball State University - Fathom has enabled the university to acquire, encode and distribute thousands of hours of content, including high-definition content, without unmanageable time and resource investments.
SyncCast - SyncCast utilized Inlet's Semaphore automated Quality Control solution to boost their productivity by over 40%, meeting a deadline they had thought impossible months earlier.
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