Media Retrieval & Management 

K-12 Education Need:  A fundamental service in schools has always been to give teachers the ability to present video and other media to their students to enhance instruction through visual and auditory material.  Additionally many schools made cable television programming available in classrooms with the ability to broadcast announcements.  Today the core need remains but old technology is changing and new technology is offering far more capability at substantially less cost.  Classrooms, school infrastructures and content is being migrated to digital technologies.  Instead of a small TV in the corner classrooms have computers hooked to large display projectors and LCD panels.  Instead of a shared mobile VCR cart or A/V equipment installed in each room schools need centralized storage and delivery mechanisms. Traditional media retrieval products offered these services but it meant each school must purchase, install and maintain dedicated coax cabling, expensive proprietary video wiring and devices in every classroom.     

MediaCAST Solution: Digital Media and Content Management System
Schools are now getting high-speed networks that simultaneously support the delivery of data, communications, Internet and hundreds of high-quality video and audio streams.  MediaCAST is a turnkey solution for digital media managment and distribution which allows schools to capitalize on their investment in networking equipment and computers.  The system handles the entire process from encoding (for converting traditional media to digital), storage, decoding for playback, streaming video on-demand, and live broadcasting.  With MediaCAST no special wiring or special boxes are needed to deliver and display content.  Everything is available on-demand over the IP network directly to your existing computers, at a fraction of the cost.

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Education Results:  The power of MediaCAST is that it enables all of a school's media, video, audio, documents and other electronic content to be available from anywhere, all from within any Web-browser.  Content is input into its searchable digital library and shared across the district, correlated to Education Standards, Copyright controls managed and licenses protected.  All while the system tracks usage and generates necessary reports. MediaCAST is a district's long-term solution for content management, no matter which providers or how many 3rd party publishers are chosen.  When you decide to add new courses, modify curriculum or change content there is no retraining of teachers on some new proprietary content system.