At a Glance: Ascent Media

Services

Ascent Media

Systems Integration & Consulting

Systems integration expertise.Custom media solutions.

Innovative design of new IT and IP solutions.

Celebrated for 30+ years of expertise in the design and implementation of IT and IP solutions, our systems integration team has secured its place at the peak of broadcast and content storage and movement by building sophisticated solutions tailored to our clients’ unique needs. Our vendor-independent status allows us to incorporate best-of-breed technologies into the custom facilities we construct for broadcast, Telco, IPTV, government, and other industries through the global market. Nobody offers the same level of proven success completing large, complex projects, on time and on budget. And nobody has the same depth of resources, both financial and technical, to mitigate risk on time-critical and budget-critical projects. As the media and entertainment industry's most trusted systems integrator, you can rest assured that Ascent Media has the infrastructure to service your media facility, technical and operational needs long after project completion.

 

Consulting

Understanding each client's unique needs.

The global Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry is undergoing tremendous change driven by digital media technologies. The assessment and implementation of these new technologies creates a significant degree of complexity in areas where internal corporate M&E personnel may need additional support in certain technical disciplines, operational best practices and emerging applications. They may also have insufficient time to devote to high-quality research, planning and design of complex media solutions. All of these place stress on constrained corporate resources in a highly competitive and cost-conscious business environment that has to transform to remain viable.
 
Our consulting team seeks to understand each client’s unique needs, from modernizing libraries for digital platforms to integration into legacy systems to publishing content to multi-platform environments. Ascent Media's consultants help clients assess the benefits of in-sourcing versus out-sourcing and can provide the right mix of solutions for their organization. As today’s complex media supply chain evolves, our team is prepared to work with clients to protect historical investments while transitioning to lower cost, agile operations that include the latest IT advancements in areas such as cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service applications, and business systems tuned to video management and monetization.
 
Ascent Media Consulting Services (AMCS) is comprised of a group of professional consultants, technologists and analysts that provide a wide range of consulting disciplines for electronic media content owners and providers to such clients as:

 

  • BYU Broadcasting
  • Cincinnati Bell Entertainment
  • Corus Entertainment (Canada)
  • Discovery Latin America
  • Dubai Media Inc.
  • MediaCorp Pte Ltd (Singapore)
  • MTV Turkey
  • Network Appliance
  • PMT Video LLC (Russia)
  • The South African Broadcasting Corporation
  • SypherMedia Intl.