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Comcast Media Center
Comcast Media Center
Denver-based Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, provides centralized content management and distribution solutions for cable systems, television networks and other video content providers and for advertisers "All From The Center."
CMC's multiplatform content distribution services for cable system operators include:
- HITS Quantum all-digital platform of linear HD and SD digital video and audio services, which serves over 400 cable MSO affiliates who operate more than 2,000 local cable system headends across the country;
- VOD In a Box, a centralized content management solution that delivers over 1,200 HD and SD video on demand programs;
- HITS AxIS, a centralized platform that supports the development and delivery of iTV applications; and,
- HITS Broadband, a carrier-class IP connectivity service.
The CMC's Content Distribution services for television programming networks and other content providers include:
- A video on demand (VOD) platform that manages and distributes over 9,000 VOD assets each month;
- Network origination services for linear television channels;
- Live event delivery via CDOC, the CMC's Content Distribution Operations Center;
- Transmission services via satellites serving North America and the Atlantic and Pacific operating regions and global terrestrial fiber networks;
- Disaster recovery services; and,
- Transcoding, hosting, storage and IP multicasting services to support multiplatform content distribution.
Comcast Media Center's Advertising Distribution services include the Advertising Distribution Network (ADN), a web portal for centrally managing advertising and programmer's promotional spots that has more than 1700 users at cable MSO, division and system locations; and content management services for advanced advertising applications.
The CMC also provides a full spectrum of Production services for HDTV and standard definition video and audio content, including studios, editing, and audio mixing and sweetening.