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Today's broadcasters are looking for ways to make very large digital media files available to consumers in the fastest, most cost-efficient ways, while reducing bandwidth and enhancing or maintaining high-quality viewer experiences. If you're seeking a new or better Push VOD solution, you're likely considering the following:

• You're looking for a way to reduce VOD costs.
  
  
• You can't deliver your media directly to set-top box hard disks.
  
  
• Your current or competing Push VOD offerings are limited in their ability to offer flexible solutions.
  
  
• Competing offers on the market seem to be a complicated compilation of hardware and software solutions stitched-together from many vendors.

Castify Broadcast Network (CBN)™ from Castify Networks is a software-only, end-to-end Push VOD platform for network providers and broadcasters seeking a full-featured system for enabling Push VOD solutions that are rapid, reliable, cost-efficient, highly secure and provide the highest-quality, on-demand viewing experience to the viewing audience.

				For the rapid, easy and cost-effective deployment of a Push VOD solution, all you need are the following Castify CBN products: Network Manager Media Manager NOC C-Router™ C-Terminal™ Uplink

CBN is a fully-integrated Push VOD solution that provides end-to-end features and services:

• CBN provides a full-featured Push VOD solution that provides all Push VOD requirements in one complete solution, enabling a lowest-cost implementation of a full Push VOD system.
  
  
• CBN ensures optimal use of available bandwidth, reducing the amount of bandwidth required to deploy highest-quality on-demand viewing at the home, and provides subscribers the highest-quality entertainment experience with transparent content distribution into the home.
  
  
• CBN's modular structure and high scaleability deploys rapidly and quickly enables broadcasters to enable a full media delivery solution for Push VOD to the home.
  

Castify's CBN Push VOD platform means fast, highly-efficient push VOD distribution of very large media files directly to residential set-top boxes:

• Full Multicasting: CBN supports both unicasting and multicasting wherever available.
  
  
• Ideal for DSL, Cable and Satellite: CBN supports all types of networks, including terrestrial DSL and cable as well as satellite and hybrid networks. CBN's modular, software-only approach means easy integration of a heterogenous network.
  
  
• Integrated Content and Network Management Tools: CBN integrates end-to-end content and network management and monitoring software components and tools into one solution. This greatly speeds up the deployment of a full-featured and complete Push VoD solution with highly reliable and secure distribution and delivery of digital content assets directly to consumers' set-top boxes.
  
  
• Independent Content Provider Access: Castify Media Manager, CBN's desktop application for content managers, makes it easy for content managers to have direct access to content insertion and distribution, without the need to confer with DSL, cable or satellite service providers to initiate the distribution of content to consumer set-top boxes.
  
  
• Full-featured, End-to-end Solution: CBN provides integrated tools for network and content management and monitoring, with central control of network monitoring and configuration and full control of content from insertion to distribution onto consumer set-top boxes, including integrated electronic program guides for embedded content access options.
  
  
• Software-only Solution: CBN's software-only solution ensures rapid, cost-efficient deployment with high flexibility to ensure full integration with existing network infrastructure.
  
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Contact Castify for information about deploying a Push VOD solution using Castify's CBN platform.