Columbia, MD., August 20, 2024 — LTN (stand #5.A76), the industry leader in transformative media technology and video transport solutions, will exhibit a range of innovative solutions to drive cost-efficient digital linear channel creation and live event customization at scale through IP video distribution at IBC2024. The company will provide hands-on demos for attendees to discover how flexible and reliable IP-based technologies power new content versioning, regionalization, and multi-platform distribution capabilities — with advanced monitoring and data visibility for greater customer control.
LTN will showcase how its automated digital linear channel creation and playout solution, LTN Lift, drives new revenues and tailored cross-platform experiences for targeted audiences. In live demos, visitors will see how major media companies and sports streaming services, such as DAZN, have leveraged LTN Lift to reliably and efficiently create new linear channels across digital platforms, including FAST. LTN Lift enables content owners and channel operators to rapidly spin up multiple versions of customized linear channels while seamlessly mixing pre-recorded and live programming and integrating with third-party channel management systems. The LTN-hosted playout solution elevated fan experiences throughout the recent European Football Championship in Germany, delivering high-quality, customized video feeds to fan zones across 10 cities.
LTN will also share the latest innovations around its fully managed, multicast-enabled IP video distribution solution, LTN Wave, providing a flexible, cost-efficient, and reliable IP-based alternative to satellite and fiber distribution. LTN Wave delivers greater monetization and scale in multi-platform distribution while discovering new monitoring, visibility, and control enhancements for deeper insight across content and data workflows. The live event versioning solution, LTN Arc, will be featured for visitors to explore how sports organizations and rights holders can acquire, version, customize, and deliver premium live events for global audiences with tailored language and audio for effective regionalization at scale.
“Cost efficiently creating new and unique linear channels to engage global audiences at scale is a huge focus for media companies across Europe and beyond,” said Chris Myers, LTN EVP, Chief Revenue Officer. “We’re looking forward to giving customers hands-on live demos of our IP video distribution and content versioning solutions that help Tier 1 media companies capture new revenue and expand their local and international audiences.”
LTN continues to expand its presence in the EMEA market with the recent opening of its new technical operations center (TOC) in Cologne, Germany. The TOC extends LTN’s customer touchpoints and unlocks new IP ecosystem capabilities for customers across the region while ensuring high reliability and ultra-low latency across mission-critical IP video distribution workflows.
LTN will participate in the following IBC2024 speaking sessions:
Creating digital linear channels that seamlessly integrate sports and news for all platforms - including FAST (Friday, September 13, 2:30pm CET)
From Paris to Hong Kong: How LTN and IMAX stream the biggest live events to global audiences with theater-grade quality (Saturday, September 14, 12:45pm CET)
Global sports streaming service DAZN rises to the challenge of delivering live sports to all platforms (Sunday, September 15, 2:30pm CET)
