Founded in 1998 with headquarters in Sao Paulo and offices in New York
and Milan, LabOne has been mastering the development of audio and video
management and delivery systems that extend the effect of traditional media by adding interactivity and measurability over wired, wireless and mobile broadband networks.

Fact Sheet

LabOne enables companies to create, manage and deliver Internet-centric digital media content to internal and external audiences, through software and software-based services which significantly enhance functionality and management atop of industry-standard media systems platforms, secure and preserve digital rights, and reduce both costs and time-to-market.

LabOne products and services have been deployed in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain and USA. The company has offices and representatives in Brazil, Mexico, USA and Italy. With its development team based in Brazil, the company can achieve a seamless competitiveness in terms of price and quality of its deliverables thanks to high quality labor and standardized development and delivery processes.

Through the years LabOne has acquired a small but important portfolio of customers like Terra Networks, Siemens, Telefonica, Disney, EmusicLatino, Sanborns and Telmex in Mexico and also Inet, Telefono Azzurro and Kataweb in Italy.

Media-iBox – Digital Media Management System

Media-iBox is the company’s flagship product for digital media management. With Media-iBox customers can acquire, manage, protect and deliver any type of media (MPEG, WMA, QUICKTIME, REAL and FLASH) to any IP enabled device worldwide. Based on .NET platform, Media-iBox can be managed through any computer with access to the internet.

Media-iBox enables companies to:

Model Content
Object based, fully configurable content modeling allow users to map any kind of content resources (like articles, pictures, products information, multimedia files and metadata). Each content object (like images, texts, media files) has its own properties and relations with other media objects.

Media-iBox API addresses needs for external content integration, getting information from external Databases (MSSQL, Oracle, XML repositories) and adding it as internal content objects.

Multiple-purpose content modeling enable content creators to add platform-specific content objects in order to support multiple-platform content publishing. Content is created once, and then adapts for platform-specific needs.

Content object maps allow users to build relationship between internal content objects and external sources (like relational databases or xml repositories). Content partners can send xml files trough the network (ftp, for example) and then the system parses the file in order to aggregate information adapted to internal content modeling.

Manage Digital Assets

Two-layer user/group/permissions system enables supports complex access control rules, with users membership defined in two layers: functional and hierarchic.

A complete control center enables system administrators to manage permissions for users and groups, along with workflow roles of each one.

Per-object permission control enables rich and detailed user access restrictions.

Native support for most used content objects, like Texts, Images (jpeg, gif, png, hires formats), media files (windows media, Realnetworks, Quicktime), office documents, pdfs, flash files, playlists.

Configurable and object-specific metadata fields.

Relational metadata modeling address costumers needs and can integrate with external systems.

Management workflow can be configured for each different content object, including different users groups or hierarchic workflow.

Media-iNet module allows users to import/export modeled content through the Internet, preserving content relations, metadata and platform-specific elements.

An XML Agent enables integration between central content aggregators and external digital asset management systems.

Publishing

Templates-based publishing, with point-and-click, drag-and-drop web interfaces.

Scheduled publishing with “playlist” management for media files enable site administrators to plan website publishing and schedule it.

WAP publishing – Content publishing from anywhere trough WAP cell phones. Conditional publishing definitions can be created once, and then activated trough WML interfaces on WAP mobile phones.

Revision control and publishing history help users track changes and past publishing events.

Audit logs generated to track users activities (from content inclusions trough deletion of media items).

Content syndication module enables synchronization between different Media-iBox environments. External content sources can automatically drive content exchange and publishing on hosted systems.

Real-time reporting with channel/category filtering. Dynamic top-clicked pages, channels and contents lists are generated. Website administrators can have real time access to what users are doing on the website.

Digital Media Distribution

Full support for Windows Media, RealNetworks and Quicktime streaming servers.

Application-level redundancy among streaming servers enables rational hardware sizing for massive audience streaming operations. Excellent hardware cost/publishing capacity ratios.

Fault-tolerant and regenerative files distribution agent can handle large amount of different streaming servers across the network.

Streaming servers monitoring integration, enabling site administrators to program automatic actions (like setting "priority zero" to servers that fail on the network).

Metadata-sensitive distribution of files. Metadata like content validity or regional restrictions are automatically applied to file distribution agent.

Advanced CDN module enables ip-based distribution maps, network-sensitive user redirection and integration with IP lock engines like QUOVA.

User authentication and content protection (DRM) can handle pay-per-view or subscription models.

Featured Customer Applications:

Content Management: Siemens Latin America uses Media-ibox to, intelligently and from one single point manage and publish its internet and intranet content.

Online Music Store: Sanborns (Mexico) and ElatinMusic have already implemented their music stores with a record label approved DRM technology.

Broadband Media Center: Both Terra Networks and IG in Brazil use Media-iBox to create a "online media library management system" for its broadband customers.

Broadcast Digital Asset Management: GloboTV, 6th largest TV network in the world has chosen Media-Ibox to implement Brazils first Digital Media Asset management, research and distribution system for its newscast group.