Travel Channel Fast Forwards Global Media Movement Using MessageWay Solutions

Business Wire, June 24, 2009

MessageWay Managed File Transfer Accelerates and Secures Multi-gigabyte Media Transfer Workflow

LIVONIA, Mich. -- MessageWay Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance managed file transfer solutions for enterprises, today announced that the Travel Channel has successfully deployed MessageWay Managed File Transfer™ (MFT) to centralize governance and automation across all pre- and post-production digital media movement worldwide. By replacing multiple legacy file transfer methods including FTP servers, third-party collaboration services, and couriers with a single instance of MessageWay MFT, the Travel Channel is now benefiting from secure and rapid movement of its intellectual property, from submission of dailies to post-production release to syndication. MessageWay’s lights-out business process management functionality now enables the Travel Channel to achieve end-to-end governance and security across external and internal transmissions, including those involving inbound pre-production files containing up to fifty gigabytes of raw footage.

The media and broadcast industries can present extreme challenges to online bulk file transfer including the enormity of content files, narrow unforgiving transmission windows, and geographically diverse location crews and production facilities. MessageWay’s unique ability to stream extremely large files without limit on size and without degradation in system performance enables the Travel Channel’s pre-production content to be delivered almost instantly, from anywhere to anywhere, with integrity and without intervention by IT staff. MessageWay’s centralized, rules-based platform provides Travel Channel’s IT organization with the visibility, reliability, and governance that it requires. MessageWay’s absolute automated control and fine-grained monitoring spans every hop in the transfer lifecycle of dailies, including scheduling, encryption, compression, transformation, logging/audit, exception handling, and delivery notifications and confirmations.

“Our field crews were frequently tested by tight deadlines put at risk by undependable local telecommunications infrastructure. Transcoding meant costly hardware was being shipped around and not returned, and it wasn’t always easy to know exactly who was transferring what files, or if copies of dailies were being left on third party servers after upload to pre-production,” said Richard Hood, Senior Manager, IT Operations at Travel Channel. “Now even our largest files are sent directly to their intended destination reliably, accurately, and securely, without any special desktop software or intervention by Travel Channel staff. We foresee the day when a single pre-production transmission reaches over a hundred hours of content and exceeds a terabyte in size. With MessageWay, we have a single solution that can handle Travel Channel’s entire transmission load, from pre-production to final push to our syndication service.”

“Content movement and workflow management in the media industry can be complicated by the extreme size of files and the tight delivery windows imposed by broadcast schedules,” said Greg Faubert, president and CEO of MessageWay Solutions. “MessageWay’s streaming architecture ensures that content arrives intact and on schedule at its intended destination, regardless of whether it’s a 50 megabyte .jpg file or a 50 gigabyte HD media file.”

About Travel Channel Media:

Travel Channel Media is an integrated travel media business, and is wholly owned by Cox Communications, Inc., a leading multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company. Travel Channel Media includes: the Travel Channel television network, available in 94 million U.S. cable homes; Travel Channel HD™, the network’s high-definition simulcast; travelchannel.com, the network’s broadband travel hub; Travel Channel’s video-on-demand (VOD) and HD VOD offerings; its mobile content platform, Travel Channel GO™; World Hum (worldhum.com), a leading online travel blog; Travel Channel Studios, its short-form production division; and FlightDeck™, an innovative content-sharing and advertising network for online publishers and advertisers.

About MessageWay Solutions, Inc.

Since 1988, MessageWay has been delivering secure, scalable Managed File Transfer solutions to global enterprises. MessageWay’s open architecture was designed to easily accommodate the largest of files, the shortest of clearing windows, and the most exacting regulatory compliance mandates. Industry leaders depending on MessageWay for secure file transfer include: The Travel Channel, Barclays Bank, Cass Information Systems, the State of Montana, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Services, the United States Postal Service, and the national automated clearing houses for Norway, United Kingdom, and South Africa. MessageWay is positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s Managed File Transfer Magic Quadrant. For more information, visit http://www.messageway.com