Media

Harness the power of transformation

You have to live and breathe the changes that transform your industry on a daily basis, so it's only reasonable to expect any partner to live and breathe them with you.

At Colt, we not only understand the transformations that are taking place in the media industry, and the impact that they have on you, but we have also lived through them alongside our customers, in designing and deploying innovative IT and communications solutions to capitalise on the opportunities that these transformations present.

Broadcasting. Multiple formats for multiple end-user devices

As broadcasters and producers come to terms with the increasingly complex transition to tapeless workflows, diversification towards multiple-formats and multiple-content distribution platforms, as well as the move to HD and the emergence of 3D, Colt is enabling them to provide premium services to end-users in a reliable, cost-effective and secure manner. Colt excels in delivering low-latency, low-jitter connectivity giving broadcasters peace of mind and confidence in their own end-product.

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Publishing. A new business model

Today, Colt provides the flexible and robust network and IT platform that underpins the success of many of Europe's leading advertising agencies and publishing houses. As these businesses face the challenge of developing an online business model, Colt provides the media-specific consultancy and managed IT solutions to make this development a catalyst for growth. Colt's information delivery platform supports multiple formats and permits publishers, advertisers and associated agencies to form communities of interest via scalable networks and cloud infrastructure solutions that suit their dynamic business requirements.

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Exacting needs. Exact solutions

The key to a solution's success is its fit with your specific needs. In media, more than anywhere else, every need and every solution is different. And what was right for the challenges of the past will probably not be able to capitalise on the opportunities of the future.

At Colt, we know that understanding your requirements is the first step to fulfilling them, and thereby supporting your business ambitions. That's why we are so much more than a technology provider. We have teams of media-specific consultants who will understand and solve the business challenges facing your organisation, moving your IT and communications platform upward and your business forward.

Your media needs. Our media expertise

Our consultants perform a proactive analysis of your business requirements, and work in a collaborative way to suggest, agree and design an optimum solution. This consultancy service is complemented by a dedicated solutions design centre, which oversees the project from idea generation to complete solution design, delivery and documentation.

Move fast to move forward

Media-specific consultancy also means that you can adopt, and adapt, quickly in a market place where change occurs rapidly. Colt provides the latest technology solutions for media and the applied expertise to ensure these solutions are aligned with your business.

True partnership. Real benefit

Colt has been working alongside our media customers throughout a long history of change. We have changed with the industry, in advance of the industry, and helped the industry itself to transform. Key to our ability to work in true partnership with media organisations is our team of media-specific consultants. We provide you with access to solution architects and technology experts with vast experience in delivering multiple format networks and hosted platforms. This team of experts is ready to analyse your exact needs, develop and deploy tailored solutions, and deliver the benefits that your business ambitions require.

End-to-end expertise

Today, Colt serves a customer base of more than 1,000 media organisations, including major European broadcasters, leading post-production agencies, global and regional advertising agencies, and major publishers and associated agencies. Numerous customer testimonials detail how we have addressed specific challenges through media-savvy consultancy and tailored IT and communication solutions.

Broadcast benefit. Publishing performance

We help to maximise your total return on technology investment. We enable broadcasters to ingest and broadcast the content that the pubic demands faster, better and more reliably. We enable publishers and advertisers to create, distribute and manage digital assets more efficiently, effectively and securely. In addition, we help to drive real business benefit by reducing costs, increasing collaboration and facilitating the development of communities of interest for digital media content. What's more, we do this across multiple geographies, compounding the total value for media organisations operating across international boundaries.

Focus on the media, not the means

You want to get on with creating, managing, distributing and broadcasting or publishing your content. You don't want to have to worry about technology. At Colt, we are committed to giving you the peace of mind that means you can focus on your core business. We provide you with the very best media customer experience through:

• a world class European customer service facility providing 24/7 local language support across 15 languages
• local field agents on-hand throughout Europe for installation and repairs
• dedicated service managers to oversee every aspect of customer experience
• an advanced network operations centre delivering proactive monitoring and fault notification
• Extensive data centre infrastructure to cater for all your cloud-based solution requirements, and
• an online customer portal offering full visibility on all provisioning, fault status and billing enquiries.

Business benefit, not virtual value

At Colt, we recognise that downtime for your network and applications means downtime for your business. That's why our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) deliver the optimum level of service across both your network and applications: our network SLAs mean that we commit to the performance between your sites; our application-based SLAs ensure you get the performance you need by redefining the delivery of your content and applications within a business framework.

Guaranteed to deliver

Our network is one of the world's highest performing, trusted by the most demanding media businesses to deliver mission-critical performance day in, day out. Our network infrastructure is inherently low-latency offering low jitter and reduced packet loss. This provides broadcasters with the quality required to transmit high-quality video. It also facilitates the secure transfer and management of digital assets by publishers and advertisers. By building such resilience into every part of our network, we can offer guarantees that others simply cannot.