The leading protocol for reliable streaming news delivery.
AMPS
AMPS (Acquire Media Protocol Suite) is an Internet-based streaming protocol for real-time, guaranteed, secure, authenticated, and resilient delivery of newswire and newspaper content over the public Internet or private TCP/IP lines.
AMPS is, in essence, a software-only virtual private circuit that can be setup on demand with virtually no set-up effort.
In addition to encryption (used for security and authentication), AMPS also provides compression, prioritization, buffering, and auto-recovery after outages.
Receivers are available in software for Windows (all versions) and UNIX (Solaris and Linux). Hardware receivers that emulate legacy satellite networks are also available, and can be flashed with custom firmware.
The delivery is point-to-point. However, because the distribution software is highly efficient and the entitlement system extremely robust, AMPS can be (and is routinely) used to implement large-scale one-to-many (one-way multicast-type) applications. AMPS is used today by leading publishers and data distributors, including Dow Jones, McClatchy, McClatchy-Tribune, Market News International, The Press Association (PA Group – UK), PR Newswire, and The New York Times Syndicate.
Since its launch in 1999, AMPS has been continually upgraded to take advantage of technology improvements. It is stable and proven in real-world applications. Currently, the protocol delivers data to over 10,000 drops.
AMPS is designed as a highly reliable, secure distribution system engineered to send data to authorized endpoints that have authenticated themselves and that have been independently approved by the publisher or distributor. The AMPS head-end can also enforce time embargos, and can measure delivery latency on a real-time basis to implement simultaneous disclosure.