Media Links & FOR-A Establish Strategic Alliance in System Design and Integration of Next-Gen IP Broadcasting Solutions

FOR-A provides innovative and diverse solutions for video production environments including signal processing and conversion, video switchers, asset management and archive systems, along with chroma key, telop processing, and video multi-viewer products. As part of its system integration business, FOR-A also combines equipment from third party vendors along with its own to provide comprehensive broadcast market system solutions.

Media Links delivers IP-based technology products and solutions that are integral to customers’ broadcast facilities, from Media over IP transport solutions including the MD8000 Series to its IP Video Router System.
 
This strategic alliance combines Media Links’ leading-edge IP solutions with FOR-A’s baseband, file-based and graphics products, offering an advanced system solution for broadcast media distribution applications.

Katsuaki Kiyohara, president and representative director, FOR-A Co., Ltd. Commented: “As both a manufacturer and system integrator, FOR-A has been proposing and delivering advanced products and systems to broadcast stations and video production facilities for more than 20 years.  As a market leader in media over IP transport and routing solutions, we look forward toward collaborating with Media Links to provide the innovative system solutions our customers need in order to transition to IP-media environments.”

Takatsugu Ono, chairman & CEO of Media Global Links, added: “Media Links has been providing IP technology based products and solutions for major broadcasters and telecom carriers for over two decades. In establishing this collaborative relationship with FOR-A, we together can provide unique next generation IP-media broadcast systems, improving overall workflow and customer satisfaction to the Japanese marketplace.”

Both Media Links and FOR-A exhibited at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition (InterBEE), a three-day event held between 16-18 November 2016 at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, just outside of Tokyo.  Media Links’ stand 5115 and FOR-A’s stand 6515  were connected to each other through a fibre based optical network, showcasing their combined IP-based, next generation system solution for media distribution applications.

About Media Links
Founded in 1993 with its headquarters in Kawasaki, Japan, Media Global Links Co., Ltd. is a leading developer and manufacturer of broadcast network infrastructure and media transport solutions. Media Links is the umbrella brand name supported by Media Global Links in Japan, Media Links Inc. in Connecticut, USA, Media Links EMEA in the UK and ML AU Pty Ltd. in Australia. The Company’s mission is to offer broadcasters and network providers throughout the world leading edge technology, enabling them to economically transport the complete suite of content signals – 4K, HD/SD video, audio or data - onto their multi-service IP/Ethernet networks. Operating as a pioneer at the forefront of technological innovations and advancements, Media Links provides the only standards based product suite in the market that enables the adoption of media signal types to Telecom standards (IP, Ethernet, SDH, SONET). In 2014, Media Links was awarded a Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award for Standardization and Productization of JPEG2000 (J2K) Interoperability. Media Global Link’s common stock is listed and traded on the JASDAQ Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the Security Code Number 6659.