Concurrent Unveils Software-Defined Content Platform at 2018 NAB Show

Duluth, Georgia (ots/PRNewswire) - Concurrent Technology Inc., a
Vecima Company (TSX: VCM), a pioneer in video delivery and storage,
will highlight at the 2018 NAB Show how their Software Defined
Content Platform is powering the largest entertainment delivery
solutions on the planet. With dynamic and adaptable solutions for
transcode, storage, origin, and cache, the company's latest
innovations are helping content and service providers intelligently
deliver content to their subscribers, at any scale. With billions of
streams delivered over two decades, Concurrent has a proven track
record of driving operational costs down and increasing revenue
opportunities for content creators, producers and distributors.

Concurrent offers a wide range of deployment options - cloud,
on-premise, or hybrid - to store, protect, transform and deliver
content. Content producers and distributors are looking for solutions
to optimize their cost-performance trade-off, customer experience and
business profitability. Concurrent's Software-Defined Content
Platform delivers on this optimization, and much more.

Content Storage & Processing

With an open object storage engine and flexible support for file,
block and object protocols, Aquari is used by Concurrent's customers
for highly scalable, high performance video storage. Aquari's
workload optimized, software-defined storage interface, AQR, has been
improved with enhancements that increase performance and scalability.
In order to manage content libraries that span hundreds of millions
of objects, internal metadata is now stored in a performance
optimized fashion.

To proactively protect customer's operational performance while
scaling storage capacity, the Aquari management system has been
extended to allow easy control and monitoring of the state of the
storage, highlighting any setting or status that is out of the
ordinary. Operators can customize their Aquari storage system's
behavior to their business demands by scheduling and controlling
background operations that maintain the health of the system. Overall
system capacity and utilization is available at a glance with
detailed utilization reports. Operators can see the trend of capacity
utilization over time in order to make forward looking decisions.
When the time comes to add capacity, a new automated scale-out
capability that is optimized for mission-critical, large-scale
production video content delivery systems can be used to add hundreds
of terabytes smoothly to a running system.

Concurrent's pure software transcoder, Zephyr, is capable of being
deployed as a software-only, pay-per-use solution in either private
or public clouds. "Listening closely to customers, we knew that a
single cloud provider or a single on-premise solution wasn't meeting
all their requirements," says Paul Martin, VP Engagement at
Concurrent. "What customers were saying to us is they needed
multi-cloud flexibility, but with predictable costs. So, we have
given customers what they've asked for and added the pay-per-use
model to our existing licensed appliance solution." The Zephyr
Transcoder can be deployed in a private or customer-managed public
cloud account, and integrated via API to any workflow management
solution.

Content Delivery

Concurrent's heritage in Video-on-Demand, including its Technical
Emmy for VOD services, gives Concurrent a leading position in today's
era of OTT and SVOD services. Unique features, including the ability
to define ABR profile groups, help content providers more efficiently
deliver video to consumers, lowering operational cost. ABR profile
groups allow operators to control which profile groups are sent to
which ABR clients. The feature enables many benefits including
optimized bandwidth usage, tiered pricing models, allowing a single
ABR asset to be encoded by multiple codecs, and more.

Caching is a critical component of any robust Content Delivery
solution. Concurrent's Laguna Cache is a software-based, high density
streaming server with integrated intelligent caching features. With
support for a wide variety of content formats and streaming
protocols, it supports delivery to mobile devices, smart TVs, as well
as classic set-top boxes simultaneously. Laguna Cache can be deployed
at the edge for maximized quality of experience and minimized
latency, in intermediate locations to save network cost, and at the
origin as a shield cache to scale your services without adding origin
capacity.

Concurrent's CDN solutions, including Zephyr Origin, Laguna Cache,
Aquari Storage and Zephyr Transcoding, are best of breed, well
integrated solutions across multi-vendor ecosystems. In addition to a
strong history of third party integrations, these components also
integrate seamlessly together to provide a feature-rich, scalable
Software-Defined Content Platform for storing, transforming and
delivering content.

From Content Management to Content Delivery, Concurrent's
Software-Defined Content Platform supports the most challenging
business and technical requirements to help content creators,
producers and distributors succeed. To learn more about Concurrent's
software solutions at the 2018 NAB Show, attend the Press Conference
on Monday April 9, 2018 at 11:00am PT in room N242 or visit booth#
10530 in Lower South Hall.

About Concurrent

Concurrent Technology Inc., a Vecima Company (TSX: VCM), is a
global company that develops software solutions focused on storing,
protecting, transforming, and delivering visual media assets. We
enable the world's leading innovators in visual media to entertain,
inform, and communicate, by providing the tools to help them unlock
their creativity and share it with the world. We accomplish this by
developing open software solutions that make the world's visual media
available online, when and where it is needed around the world.
Concurrent has offices located in North America, Europe and Asia.
Visit www.concurrent.com for further information and follow us on
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Concurrent_CCUR and LinkedIn at
www.linkedin.com/company/ccur.

Concurrent's logo and Concurrent product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Concurrent Technology, Inc., while all other
product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.

About Vecima Networks
Vecima Networks Inc. (TSX:VCM) is a globally recognized leader in
creating breakthrough technology solutions that empower network
service providers to connect people and enterprises to information
and entertainment worldwide.
For more information, visit www.vecima.com.

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