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Education & Training

Create and manage virtual learning and training environments through online video.

UniView : an Educational hub for Video

 

The engineers at Switch Media design and build online education portals to suit your college, school, university or training institution. Uniview provides students with a place for watching missed lectures, to watch most TV shows of educational value broadcast in recent years.

By focusing on online video and interactive modules, your users will be amazed at how engaging education can be.

 


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Professional Development

 

 

Create individual online histories for video viewed by your students or employees.

 

 

 

 


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eCommerce integration

 

Create an intuitive and personal shopping experience by suggesting ecommerce products that are related to video content they have previously watched.

 

 


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Remote eAssessment

 

 

Manage your lecturer assessment schedule better by enabling students to submit their practical assignments as video uploads.


 

 

 


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Access your content on the move


Catch up on a missed lecture on your PC, iPad, iPhone or Android mobile device.

 

 

 

 


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Real Time Analytics

The Switch Media platform makes analysing your videos simple, accessible and always up to date.  The Analytics module lets you make informed marketing decisions about viewer habits and retention by giving you immediate access to charts, tables and reports that segment your demographic by location and video ID. 

 

 

 


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Video Content Management

 


Switch Media’s simple yet intuitive user interface lets you upload content, edit and control distribution.

 


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Live Events


Switch Media delivers live video with multi-bitrate streaming to the highest quality that best suits your viewer’s bandwidth, player size and device.

Live event streaming      Webcasts       Integrated moderated chat

 


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Turn On, Tune In & Catch up to live! Progressive Encoding

 


Online Catch-up TV that only Switch Media and the internet can deliver.  Give your viewers the ability to ‘catch up’ on the part of the live stream they missed, before jumping forward to the present time.  Or for events with tight release timeframes, give your premium viewers exclusive access to videos on demand while they are still being encoded.

 

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Data Security
 


Switch Media uses the highest level firewall and encryption to secure your content. We partner with data centres that are ISO27001 certified which means that your digital assets are protected with the highest-level of security certification and best practices.

 

 

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Data Centres
 


Formal monitoring, logging and event management processes are employed in the data centre to maintain world class levels of technical support.

  • Mantraps, keycard protocols, biometric scanning protocols and round-the-clock interior and exterior surveillance monitors protects access to the data centres.
  • There is constant supervision of all doors, riser cupboards and plant rooms with CCTV including motion detection and fixed cameras with digital recording capability and HDD archive.
  • UPS power, back-up systems, and N+1 (or greater) redundancy.
  • Robust Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning (HVAC) system handles the demanding cooling requirements of high-power density deployments.
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Systems and Link Redundancy
 


Switch Media's Tier 1 architecture provides fully redundant and diverse Internet connectivity, protecting against fibre cuts and router outages. Our platform services are distributed and replicated across multiple data centres to guarantee service uptime. Additionally, product software and infrastructure is updated regularly with the latest security patches.

Switch Media data centres uses the latest virtualization technologies combined with SAN architecture to ensure the highest possible utilisation of our infrastructure. All servers and networking devices are in a redundant configuration allowing for total failure of any component with minimal effect on uptime.

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