Planetcast’s Cloud Based Services were a hit at Convergence India Show 2021

New Delhi, April 6, 2021: Planetcast media services, a global leader in broadcast technology services, completed another successful participation at 28^th Convergence India Show, which focused on cloud based broadcast services and application of 5G technology in broadcast industry. Planetcast lined up its latest and updated version of its IP Delivery Solution Recaster ™, Cloud Playout Solution Cloud.X ™, and Media Asset Management Solution, MAM.C for Convergence India Show 2021, which was held during March 24-26, 2021 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

The product showcase at Convergence was in tandem with the growing needs of the broadcasting industry for remote operations. Planetcast gathered valuable insights from the pandemic and has made critical changes in its bouquet of services to make its customer’s business pandemic proof. The cloud based services offered by Planetcast enable broadcasters to run their operations from any part of the globe with minimum human to human contact.

Planetcast’s cloud playout solution, Cloud.X offers top notch efficiency in handling large scale live events. The easy live switching feature and instant capture feature enables broadcasters to manage multiple live sources and multiple headends with smooth switching between live and commercial breaks. Cloud.X enables you to ingest multimedia content in multiple formats such as MP4, MOV, MXF, WMV, FLV and many more.

Planetcast’s MAM.C enables users to streamline the entire media value chain from production, distribution, and delivery to OTT platforms across the globe. ‘MAM on Cloud’ offers quick channel origination by offering global availability of content. The solution is supplemented by 24×7 support from our highly competent technical team.

Recaster™ is designed by Planetcast for complex cloud workflows and can be setup, controlled and monitored anywhere on the cloud. Recaster ™ is compatible with almost every OEM hardware and works like a plug and play device. Planetcast has always played the role of a problem solver in the industry since inception and the launch of Recaster ™ is a part of our continued efforts to create an environment of trust in the television broadcast industry.

In a first physical trade show in the post pandemic world, Planetcast was received highly encouraging response from the customers and visitors. The maximum number of business queries (70%) were registered in our system for cloud based services, remote playout, disaster recovery and IP delivery. The remaining 30% of the business queries revolved around Teleport uplinking/downlinking, DSNG services, System Integration and those seeking regulatory consultancy.

We are thrilled to see that physical trade shows are back in business and we look forward to fruitful participation in the upcoming Indian and global shows. Planetcast strictly followed covid related protocols such as sanitizers, face shields, gloves, temperature check etc. Planetcast distributed face masks as giveaways at the show.

(This is a press release)