Monthly Archives: January 2009
Announcing our new Training Lead
Tightrope is happy to announce that we have hired Brook Grubs as our Training Lead. She will be training end users and dealers how to use our products, creating training material, and further developing our training department. Brook's experience training and creating training material made her a great fit for Tightrope. We all look forward [...]
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Announcing our new Support Technician
We are happy to announce that we have brought on board a 'new, old guy' this week. Chad Gartner has been hired as a technician for our support team. As some of you may remember, Chad was on staff with Tightrope a few years ago. Chad will be mostly 2nd level support and running our [...]
Tightrope Creative
On January 1st of 2009, Tightrope Media Systems officially launched Tightrope Creative, our Carousel design service division. With Tightrope Creative, you will get professionally created channel designs that include: Coordinated design elements Pre-configured zone layouts Specialized templates High-utility icons New design elements called “snap-ons”, which modify the look of a template to give it a [...]
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TRMS Labs
The development team at Tightrope is excited to announce the availability of TRMS Labs, a new website to house our open source projects and utilities. For the site’s launch, we have three projects available: Cablecast SuperCopy: A plugin for our Cablecast automation system to duplicate a day’s schedule far out into the future. Carousel RDA [...]
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Bandwidth throttling in Carousel
JJ posted an interesting article about bandwidth throttling in Carousel. This is a timely article given the bandwidth optimizations made in Carousel 5.2.2. Simply, this article explains how to manage the bandwidth used by your digital signage network if you do not have QOS routers.
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Announcing our new Tech Support lead
We are pleased to announce that Grayson Vangen has been promoted to Tech Support Lead. Grayson has been with Tightrope for a few years as a support tech and has shown professionalism and diligence in that role. As we were looking to fill the position, Grayson was the natural choice. We look forward to him [...]
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Announcing our new Regional Sales Manager
We are excited to announce that Pete Tufigno has accepted a new position as Regional Sales Manager. He will be moving from the head of Support into this new role. Pete had a deep technical understanding our our products and has particular expertise in training and uses of Carousel and Cablecast. We believe these skills [...]
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Carousel: Using authenticated web sites for RSS, web page snapshots