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Aquila Broadcast from MediaKind offers a broadcasting solution to minimise costs, maintain quality up to UHD HDR services whilst enabling broadcasters to transform their workflow to an all-IP architecture.

Solution values

• Class leading picture quality
  
  
  
  • Offers 10% year-on-year gain in video quality giving subscribers and viewers a more immersive experience annually.
  
  
  
  


• Flexible deployment
  
  
  
  • Deployable as an appliance or software only, either on-premises or in the cloud ensuring any system implementation fits with all current architectures.
  
  
  
  


• Supporting an all IP workflow
  
  
  
  • Supports the latest IP standards, including SMPTE 2022 and SMPTE ST 2110 enabling a simplified and more cost efficient solution implementation.
  
  
  
  


• Converged broadcast & OTT solution
  
  
  
  • When combined with the Aquila Streaming solution, Aquila Broadcast provides a cost efficient broadcast and streaming platform.
  
  
  
  

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MediaKind’s Aquila On-Demand solution delivers an end-to-end content delivery workflow designed to ingest, process and deliver video files for OTT and IPTV consumption. This solution addresses the challenge in delivering a high-end user experience while ensuring operational costs remain under strict control. When combined with the MediaKind PRISMA advertising and alternate content portfolio, it also enables new revenue streams leveraging advertising and content distribution rights capabilities.

• Push your video quality higher leveraging MediaKind’s On-Demand Encoding technology to provide the highest video quality and guaranteed performance across multiple codec choices - MPEG-2, H.264 & HEVC•


• Enabling a better consumer experience delivering content to a wide variety of devices by leveraging MediaKind’s packager support for all major segment and manifest formats (HLS, Smooth Streaming, DASH, CMAF)•


• Faster time to market by deploying a unified solution across any network and infrastructure type (COTS servers, IT datacenters & private and public clouds)•


• Reduce operational complexity using a single interface for all services and servers’ operations•


• Optimize server footprint with an underlying micro-services design, that provides deployment flexibility, allows scalability according to demand and delivers a highly available service

 

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Aquila Streaming provides broadcast quality video encoding capabilities alongside the latest packaging formats for delivery to OTT, or converged broadcast applications. Aquila Streaming also creates new revenue streams with digital ad-insertion and enables managing the headend lifecycle by leveraging cloud-native applications. The solution is available as an appliance, software (which can be deployed on reference or dedicated hardware), private or public cloud, or as a MediaKind delivered service.

Solution value

• Push video quality higher by leveraging MediaKind’s Encoding Live award winning technology to deliver the highest video quality and guaranteed performance across multiple codecs (MPEG-2, H.264 & HEVC)


• Enable a better consumer experience with support for a wide variety of devices by leveraging MediaKind’s packaging technology with support for all major segment and manifest formats (HLS, SS, DASH, CMAF)


• Faster time to market by utilizing a single solution to address all networks and all infrastructures (Appliances, IT datacenter & private and public clouds)


• Reduce operational complexity using a single point of entry for all media services and servers’ operations.


• Optimize OPEX and CAPEX when migrating to full IP leveraging the latest IT & cloud technologies (containers & orchestration) to significantly reduce infrastructure costs.


• Highly Available with a variety of redundancy and recovery schemes thus ensuring maximum uptime and minimizing servicing costs leading to reduced consumer churn and maintaining important revenue streams


• Aquila Streaming can be combined with Aquila Broadcast enabling a fully converged Broadcast and OTT headend

Aquila Streaming delivered as a Service

This type of solution deployment enables some further key additional benefits:

• Faster time to market for media content


• Peace of mind from proven integration with ecosystem partners to offer a full turn-key solution


• Significant cost efficiencies from the reduction of locally deployed equipment procurement or management needed since the solution leverages public cloud infrastructure


• Reduced in-house operational requirements and lifecycle management cost implications as these are handled by MediaKind


• Applications supported for 24/7 live channels, occasional use/events, and additional use cases such as disaster recovery for on premises headends

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MediaKind's Cygnus Contribution solution enables live events to be captured reliably, cost effectively, with the highest quality and lowest latency. It supports UHD HDR, the latest IP standards, and delivers remote/ at-home production applications.

This media processing and delivery solution addresses a number of different live content contribution use cases and applications such as remote / at-home production with distinct values enabling content providers/owners, Broadcasters and TV Operators to maximize their investment whilst maintaining the quality and low latencies required for professional media delivery.

 

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Cygnus Distribution is a new generation solution for primary distribution applications from MediaKind. Whether it is the professional distribution of live events such as sports matches, or the distribution of 24/7 channels, Cygnus Distribution enables this to be delivered securely, reliably and in high quality whether that be via satellite, or IP network, or a combination of both networks.

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For cable companies, multiple service operators (MSOs), telcos and content providers who need a cost efficient, reliable solution for massively scalable video storage and recording that exceeds stringent performance requirements, the MediaKind Video Storage and Processing Platform (VSPP) is the only field proven, large scale software-based solution that provides resiliency, very high throughput, and virtually hands-off maintenance. This platform is highly optimized to minimize hardware footprint and provide the best possible TCO.

Supported use cases

Cloud DVR

Cloud based DVR applications enable service providers to offer a DVR service without the need todeploy or upgrade to expensive DVR boxes at the subscriber site. By locating the storage and streaming at the network operation center and running an RS-DVR client software at the subscriber site, operators can offer a full DVR service without the need of hardware upgrades at the subscriber.

Dynamic origin server

The origin server is a scale out media storage system that can also perform content transformation, and streaming. The origin ingests MPEG-TS CBR and ABR, and transforms them on-the-fly to RTSP and different OTT formats, thus eliminating the need to store multiple formats.

VSPP tiered architecture

Supports different tiers to address specific streaming patterns as well as content popularity.

Edge pumps

With an ongoing transformation to the full-blown Media Edge for the legacy and OTT delivery.

Monetize » Sell Content & Advertising » Advertising Systems » Programmatic and addressable advertising platforms »

MediaKind's PRISMA solution enables advertising and alternate content & blackout content insertion on any applicable workflow (live, near-live or non-live) across broadcast and IP networks delivering the maximum monetization potential and ensuring full compliance with linear distribution rights.

PRISMA solution enables fully unified and and standards based layer between advertising and linear rights business systems (ad-decisioning system, traffic & scheduling system) and A/V broadcast and/or IP processing and delivery chains.

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Enterprise-class Multiscreen Streaming Telestream Lightspeed Live Stream delivers enterprise-class live streaming for media and entertainment companies, corporations, government agencies and educational facilities. Lightspeed Live Stream provides superior quality and efficiency adaptive bit rate encoding for SD, HD and UHD sources into AVC and HEVC. This integrated hardware and software appliance combines multiple CPU and GPU cores as well as targeted ASIC CODEC acceleration to deliver flexible and efficient encoding performance. Input support is available for SDI as well as IP sources, offering future-proof operation as delivery mechanisms change. Output can be delivered via RTMP to platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, as well as ATS, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG DASH, and CMAF packages and MP4/MP3 files.

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Gallium FACTORY automatically generates sophisticated clips, such as promos, trailers, VOD assets and marketing content, using intelligent graphics templates, information entered by the commissioning producer, and direct access to the asset management system. It automatically creates all versions of a promo or programme clip eliminating unproductive manual work, renders the finished sequences and delivers them to transmission or asset management.

Gallium FACTORY is a scalable, flexible and affordable solution which makes it easy to add high end graphics to non-live content.

Click here to see how ITV, the largest UK commercial broadcast, has used Gallium FACTORY to automated the delivery of hundreds of versions for promotions across its channel portfolio every week

Automate and Publish VOD and Catchup content: Rather than waiting until a program has aired to then take the content and re-purpose it for delivery on other platforms, Gallium FACTORY automates the preparation of content for Live, VOD and Catchup channels all at the same time while preparing it for multi-platform delivery to the consumer.

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Appear’s NEO Series enables software-powered video compression for the delivery of live media experiences. Appear’s software-powered video compression solutions deliver live and file software based video compression for OTT, IPTV and VOD.

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Software solution for sophisticated transport stream splicing. Runs on generic enterprise grade Windows server hardware. Scalable and flexible configuration. Low propagation delay and avoids full steam decoding when operating in frame accurate mode,

Applications include Ad Insertion, Slate insertion (covering content) or live content replacement.

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VIPE VOD Publishing solution is an integrated microservice for rich, on-demand file creation and delivery. It is using the same resources, behaviors and architecture as our VIPE linear publishing service.

Our VOD Publishing workflow simplifies on-demand content generation by allowing the same assets, workflow and scheduling system to be used for both linear playout and VOD file creation.

Rendering content faster than real-time, ensures that VOD schedules can be quickly converted to multi format deliverables.

This directly addresses the increased cost and time challenges presented by TV everywhere and catch-up TV initiatives.

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Virtualized and feature-rich HTTP CDN solution for all your streaming use cases – from big live sports events with high traffic peaks to cache-heavy VoD catalogues – deployed on the cloud platform or the COTS machine of your choice!

Capture OTT TV growth, and deliver your TV services with maximum deployment flexibility and QoE-optimized features, with our HTTP solution. Or, maximize your IPTV business with our RTSP solution.

Edgeware’s TV and Video CDN infrastructure delivers your TV content, live or VoD, with the best possible quality and without any buffering or glitches. Deployed in the cloud of your choice or on purpose-built hardware for edge deployments, its optimized storage architecture and intelligent routing policies offer a modern and highly scalable CDN solution.

It takes TV delivery closer to the viewer, meaning content caching and streaming are provided in the edge for the best possible viewing experience.

The solution’s predictive load balancing feature provides a smooth onboarding process for big live events by handling the requests from thousands of viewers who are simultaneously waiting for their live football game or film premiere to start.

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Our solution provides you with a full CDN infrastructure that unifies video delivery to all screens. You rely on a single system to manage TS (Transport Stream) and ABR (Adaptive Bitrate) delivery.

Add HDS, HLS, Smooth Streaming and mpeg-DASH delivery to your existing offer

Add more screens to better serve your customers

Avoid siloed approaches and simplify your architecture

Manage all your services as a whole through a single system.

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Broadpeak’s nanoCDN resolves the two principal issues explaining why HTTP Adaptive bitrate (ABR) still struggles to replace Broadcast TV: scalability and quality of experience. By adding the efficiency of multicast to the new multiscreen and personalized experience of ABR format, the solution offers a unique opportunity to elevate IPTV to the next level. With this new full-ABR generation of IPTV, viewers can seamlessly navigate between Live and Time-shift, from their main screen to any mobile devices and get personalized content, all this with no compromise on the quality of their experience and at no extra cost for the operator.

 

nanoCDN has been specifically designed to avoid any kind of regression compared to traditional Broadcast. In particular, it implements optimizations for ultra-low latency such as HTTP chunked transfer encoding and CMAF chunking, bringing down the latency after encoding to a negligible amount.

 

In summary, nanoCDN is the opportunity for TV operators to finally unify delivery to the main screen and to all other screens into one single full-ABR IPTV system.

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With Broadpeak’s Cloud PVR solution, your subscribers can watch their favorite TV show anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Broadpeak’s Cloud PVR brings Cloud Time-shifting, Start Over, Catch-up TV and Cloud PVR services to subscribers, for all their devices without deploying new hardware in the households. Subscribers can record an unlimited number of content at the same time, switch from one screen to another whenever they want.

And you ease your maintenance and support costs while increasing the engagement of your subscribers with your company.

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Easel TV OTT is a multi-tenant streaming media video platform supporting film, TV, lifestyle or Brand entertainment services on the world’s leading consumer devices (PCs, tablets & mobiles, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, Roku, Virgin TiVo etc.).

Easel TV's underlying OTT eco-system includes content upload, encoding, hosting, formatting, content protection and distribution across a multi-CDN architecture to offer the highest possible quality service, globally.

Our suite of editorial, marketing, administrative and analytical management tools support all aspects of an OTT service, from content ingest, product pricing, packaging, promotion, device and consumer entitlements, usage analytics, wholesale billing and more, and are operated through a single intuitive user interface; one supplier solution, one complete administrative dashboard. Making Suggested TV one of the simplest and most comprehensive carrier-grade OTT SaaS services on the market.

We are all about providing affordable, high-quality stable OTT services, fast, with the most complete, easy-to-use, full suite of management and editorial tools on the market.

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MediaKind’s Aquila On-Demand solution delivers an end-to-end content delivery workflow designed to ingest, process and deliver video files for OTT and IPTV consumption. This solution addresses the challenge in delivering a high-end user experience while ensuring operational costs remain under strict control. When combined with the MediaKind PRISMA advertising and alternate content portfolio, it also enables new revenue streams leveraging advertising and content distribution rights capabilities.

• Push your video quality higher leveraging MediaKind’s On-Demand Encoding technology to provide the highest video quality and guaranteed performance across multiple codec choices - MPEG-2, H.264 & HEVC•


• Enabling a better consumer experience delivering content to a wide variety of devices by leveraging MediaKind’s packager support for all major segment and manifest formats (HLS, Smooth Streaming, DASH, CMAF)•


• Faster time to market by deploying a unified solution across any network and infrastructure type (COTS servers, IT datacenters & private and public clouds)•


• Reduce operational complexity using a single interface for all services and servers’ operations•


• Optimize server footprint with an underlying micro-services design, that provides deployment flexibility, allows scalability according to demand and delivers a highly available service

 

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In a world of Infinite Entertainment, the winners will be those who can deliver a differentiated, personalized, real-time experience customer expect – and stand out from the mass of providers in the market. Transform your services with the best of broadcast and IP to deliver video experiences your customers won’t forget.

• Deliver compelling video experiences everywhere:  Subscribers will see the same broadcast-quality video across any device – whenever and wherever they are


• Give your subscribers control of their TV:Comprehensive, high-agility Cloud DVR infrastructure that lets your subscribers access their favorite content on any device or network, all within you content owner’s business rules


• Leverage flexibility in hardware and client software to stand out in a crowded marketplace:Infinite is currently integrated with multiple hardware and client software platforms, and is ready for new ones as they emerge.


• Transition to a cloud-based architecture:Deploy, provision and adjust new services faster with a public cloud, on-prem or hybrid service


• Secure your service and your content:  Protect both broadcast and streaming services while detecting and disrupting pirate activity and credentials sharing


• Use data to create new sources of revenue:  Increase customer engagement and monetize in new ways through video analytics and targeted TV advertising


• Get support round the clock:Our service teams will help you configure the platform to your needs and the needs of your market – and then manage it for you

 

 

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The MediaScaleX // Origin platform enables content service providers to ingest, host, transform, record and distribute video content to any device, at any time, over any network. It uses a common integrated architecture to enable live video streaming, video on demand, catch up TV, restart TV, and cloud DVR services to IP devices and traditional set-top boxes.

Integrated content adaptation for Just-In-Time IP packaging and encryption ensures the content is delivered using adaptive bitrate (ABR) formats and content protection methods (DRM) needed for all end users’ devices.  MediaScaleX // Origin eliminates the time and cost of pre-processing content into multiple formats and DRM encryption schemes.

MediaScaleX // Origin can be deployed on-premise, in a private cloud or in a public cloud.  It can be provided as an appliance with qualified and guaranteed hardware, or as a software-only package for qualified hardware configurations including VM (Virtual Machine) and Container-based environments.

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The DataMiner® NMS/OSS platform manages absolutely every aspect of your entire operational ecosystem, both on-premises and off-premises. That includes standard & legacy technology, commodity & industry-specific hardware and software, and much more. Our award-winning solution guarantees a true end-to-end integration in every single case, across any vendor and technology boundary, from service origin to destination.

DataMiner is the most advanced end-to-end multi-vendor NMS, OSS and orchestration software solutions for the broadcast, satellite, cable, telco and mobile industry. The platform offers a plethora of functions including unlimited web access, alarm monitoring, email and SMS notification, long-term trending, professional reporting, advanced automation, intelligent correlation and root cause analysis, service management, real-time SLA monitoring, user-definable key performance indicator dashboards, spectrum monitoring, mobile access, powerful CPE management, inventory and asset management, and much more. One interface to manage your entire operational ecosystem, across any vendor and technology boundaries, results in a significant reduction of operational expenses and increased quality of service. This award-winning solution is integrated with more than 5500 devices and systems from more than 600 different key industry suppliers. It enables end-to-end integration of the most complex technical ecosystems and has been deployed by leading operators around the world.

More info: www.skyline.be / www.dataminer.co