Travel Channel Fast Forwards Global Media Movement Using MessageWay Solutions

MessageWay Managed File Transfer Accelerates and Secures Multi-gigabyte Media
Transfer Workflow
LIVONIA, Mich.--(Business Wire)--
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

MessageWay Solutions, Inc.
Anne Hiller, 512-241-9092
anne.hiller@messageway.com

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