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Net Insight secures order for prestigious high-end live sports event network in Germany
Mumbai: Net Insight teams up with MTI, Germany’s leading media backbone operator together with SHM Broadcast GmbH, a local partner in Germany for a live sports event in June. This deal reaffirms the partnership between the companies, built on trust and a shared dedication to delivering a complete live media transport solution with highest requirements for low latency, resiliency, redundancy, security, scalability, and manageability.
The network supports regional primary contribution between the main IBC centres in Berlin and Munich, ensuring full quality, service security and availability. Net Insight will supply network equipment based on Nimbra 1060, Nimbra 680 and Nimbra 640´s, including Nimbra Vision Management. The customer’s network will support 4K, HD-SDI, J2K, data services, and audio services.
“We are thrilled to collaborate with MTI and SHM Broadcast GmbH for this live sports event network. This project showcases our commitment to delivering best-in-class solutions that meet the most demanding requirements for live media transport,” says Net Insight CEO Crister Fritzson. “Our long-standing relationship with them is built on trust, expertise, and a mutual understanding of the importance of providing top-notch service quality and reliability for our customers.”
“Choosing Net Insight as our partner for this significant project was a natural decision, given our successful history together. Their media technology made them the ideal choice for this live sports event network,” says MTI Commercial Director David Mueller. “We are confident in their ability to deliver a robust and reliable solution, and we look forward to working closely with them to ensure the highest level of performance for the viewers.”
The solution offered by Net Insight addresses challenges such as creating a more reliable platform and guaranteeing full quality of service for live media, with 100 per cent assurance of service quality, availability, security, and accuracy. It also offers extremely low latency support, performance monitoring for both services and network links, and enables the customer to take complete ownership of its live media content. Key benefits for the customer include the ability to access all required services through one platform with one management system.
The order was received and delivered in May.
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
