CER-TEC is Our Northeast USA and Support Representative
Digital Broadcast, Inc. Appoints CER-TEC As Northeast USA Sales and Support Representative
CER-TEC to Offer DBi’s Digital Video and Automated Control Products
Gainesville, FL – October 11, 2016. Digital Broadcast, Inc. (DBi), specialists in acquisition, ingest, playout, archiving, and compliance monitoring has appointed CER-TEC as its exclusive sales agent for New York City, New England and New York State. All customers and accounts are included in this comprehensive agreement.
DBi serves a variety of customers including major groups, religious and cable networks, independent TV stations and commercial accounts and the company has gained experience and expertise in both baseband and IP end-to-end playout solutions. As part of a complete system, DBi provides ingest, transcoding and full automation with interfaces to stand-alone devices and traffic systems, plus compliance monitoring. As one of the first providers of full IP systems, DBi has extensive involvement in designing an IP operations model that works in a “real world” situation.
Rich Hajdu, Vice President, Business Development for DBi commented, “We selected CER-TEC because they are not just a manufacturer’s representative but are an intrinsic extension of our sales and support organizations. CER-TEC, with principals John Cerquone and Leigh Herman, add a credible presence and knowledge base with local customers. John and Leigh have been in the market for years and are trusted by their customers to provide information, education, products and services that are technically advanced and cost effective but use proven technology. This is an excellent fit for us and we are proud to have CER-TEC represent us”.
DBi is expanding outside traditional broadcast with its MediaVault archival system which can be facility or cloud-based and has an easy-to-operate interface that enables users to store, review, and recall any video clips or programs with associated metadata in both low or hi-res from any authorized location. The system includes internal disc storage which may be expanded. Near-line and off-line storage may be any format including NAS, SAN, Blu-Ray, LTO or any other medium. Additionally the system interfaces with almost any NLE or news system.
Additional stand-alone products include DBi’s Conform Engine for transcoding, MediaFire Ingest Gateway for multi-channel acquisition with automated schedule record and input trimming and MediaFire Server for either baseband or IP playout with full automation. In addition, DBi’s NewsBank enables direct MOS interface to AVID, ENPS, Octopus, and other NRCS systems for automated news playout. The Media VeriFire verification system monitors, provides warnings, records the station’s aired material and provides FCC compliance monitoring.
About Digital Broadcast, Inc. (DBi): For over 12-years DBi has provided leading edge solutions to over 300 broadcast, cable, PEG, and HoW customers who require ingest, video storage, processing and playout. One of the first U.S. companies to provide an end-to-end IP playout solution, DBi is building on its experience and expertise of providing customers highly reliable, advanced technology, expandable and upgradeable solutions at a realistic price. DBi is also leading the way with reliable and proven cloud-based solutions that provide the user greatly expanded capabilities.
