About Gaian

Gaian is a Technology and Consulting company that develops products and solutions for the Media and Entertainment industry. Gaian's systems cater to all aspects of the content distribution value chain performing all standard tasks in Content Capture, Ingest, DRM, Asset Management, Content Distribution, Content Streaming and finally STB solution for delivery over Cable, Satellite and IPTV platforms.

Gaian's End-to-End IPTV solution has been deployed in harsh and highly demanding environments and is an acknowledged industry trend setter. Gaian's control and management application for IPTV/Cable/Satellite Head-ends integrates all aspects of service operation from Element Management, Network Management, Asset Management, Subscriber management and STB management. This Service Management Suite enables management of remote head ends in a completely unattended/unmanned fashion. Gaian's IPTV middleware offers a highly cost effective solution with a tightly integrated back end ensuring optimal performance, faster integration time and easier deployment as well as efficient operations.

Gaian was founded in 2005 by a group of Media and IT professionals whose past works have won them several awards, recognitions and patents. Gaian principals have helped incubate, adopt, and deliver several emerging technologies in the Media and Entertainment industry. Gaian's delivery model is based on leveraging its core technology platforms to help solve complex requirements of today's media enterprises.

Gaian's products are distributed through a worldwide sales channel, strategic partnerships and a direct sales force. Gaian provides cross-platform, cost-effective solutions for content developers, broadcasters, network operators, and consumer device manufacturers.

The Gaian management team have worked on many cutting edge projects for some of the top Blue Chip companies in the world such as Microsoft, Oracle, DIRECTV, Motorola, and HP. Gaian's founders combined have over 60 man years of experience in the Media and Entertainment industry in various technology leadership positions. Gaian is comprised of over 70 experienced software architects, consultants, project managers, software, broadcast and media engineers located in India and the USA.

Gaian is headquartered in Los Angeles, USA and has its R&D innovation centres in India.

• Portal and Middleware Suite (thin client, MHP, proprietary)
• Operations Management and Monitoring Suite for IPTV/Cable/Satellite Services
• Hybrid HD and SD h.264 STB's
• Content Distribution Framework - Pitcher Catcher System
• Media processing platforms
  • Broadcast Encode/Decode Video Servers (MPEG II and h.264)
  • IPTV Live Streaming Servers
  • VOD Servers
  • Encryption Servers
  • Satellite Receiver Arrays
• STB Content Development Kit
• STB applications - EPG, VOD, Interactive Services

• E2E IPTV Solution
• Targeted Advertising Solution
• Digital Signage Solution
• Digital Cinema Distribution Solution
• Network DVR Solution

• Design and Architecture of Complex Media Solutions
• Consulting Services on Media and Broadcast technology and emerging standards
• Design - Build - Operate Turnkey solutions for the Content Distribution value chain
• Hosted SaaS model based Services