Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software

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Harmonic’s VOS®360 Live Streaming Platform leverages the flexibility of cloud infrastructures to meet the demanding and complex requirements of live video streaming. The fully managed solution is cloud-neutral and runs on a wide range of public cloud platforms, efficiently handling all stages of the media processing and delivery chain.

The platform is built around docker containers and microservices using Kubernetes orchestration. It offers a rich API and a range of easy to use features accessible at any time. Live streaming channels are fully managed by Harmonic’s DevOps team to ensure the highest level of availability and reliability.

The VOS360 Live Streaming Platform optimizes live video delivery with flexible and real-time scaling to handle peaks in viewership, which is extremely useful for live sports. The platform uses a range of technologies to dynamically select the best available paths between content delivery networks and caching clusters.

Supporting a range of functionalities, including live and file transcoding, packaging and origin, dynamic real-time CDN selection, targeted advertising, VOD, SVOD, time-shift and network DVR, the VOS360 platform simplifies delivery from source to screen and accelerates time to market for new revenue-generating streaming services. The platform ensures high-quality streaming through exceptional encoding efficiency and by delivering low latency, utilizing advanced compression engines to reduce bandwidth by an average of 50% along with the latest developments in artificial intelligence.

Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team guarantees the highest levels of availability and reliability. All IT infrastructures, media processing and delivery applications are always fully functional, with maximum uptime. This takes the guesswork out of system upgrades and enhancements.

 Today, the VOS360 Live Streaming Platform powers millions of simultaneous streams, thousands of live channels, countless VOD requests and hundreds of petabytes of storage and delivery.

 

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Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software is the most advanced media processing and delivery software for private data centers. It runs on a wide range of COTS hardware and virtualization layers to power demanding and complex playout, broadcast and OTT systems. Through the VOS Hub connection users can move an entire video platform from a private data center to public cloud and vice versa, with ease.

VOS software makes it simple and fast to launch and manage end-to-end professional media workflows in private data centers, as well as ingest live or file-based content, including uncompressed video over IP. With VOS software, users can create schedules, play out channels and process all content for OTT streaming and broadcast delivery, with ease.

Advanced orchestration capabilities allow users to connect and synchronize all microservices for every workflow. VOS software abstracts and manages IT infrastructures using load-balancing mechanisms to optimize the use of resources and manage redundancy with minimum overhead, eliminating the need for siloed systems.

The software is infrastructure neutral, supporting a wide range of COTS hardware and virtualization layers such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Openshift, and other bare metal configurations. This neutrality ensures complete compatibility, making it easy to align IT and business preferences. With VOS software, on-premises deployments can be backed up in a public cloud environment in just minutes.

Built-in, AI-enabled and globally deployed VOS core compression technology reduces the typical bandwidth needed for OTT delivery by about half.  VOS software is built for agile, hybrid video service delivery, with capabilities for satellite broadcasting, full statmux and OTT streaming. It supports a wide range of use cases, including live streaming, time-shifting, network DVR, targeted ad insertion, packaging and origin on the fly, from one simple platform.

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Harmonic’s VOS®360 Channel Origination & Distribution Platform is an advanced, fully managed, channel origination and distribution platform for total content control. The schedule-based delivery solution enables the creation of linear channels, live events and streams, direct to consumers or syndication partners, at lightning speed, through one simple platform, without deploying complex infrastructure.

Through the platform, users have creative control over sources, assets, schedules, monitoring and metrics, with real-time agility. The platform ensures fast channel origination by allowing users to fine-tune the output for each channel, including graphics, animations, captions, subtitles and embedded signaling.

Adapting and creating channel playlists is simple with the VOS360 platform. Users can build a playlist for clips and graphics manually, use built-in scheduling, or import from an external traffic system. The VOS API also gives users the freedom to create and manage with their choice of external playout control.

All in the cloud, the platform is built around docker containers and microservices using Kubernetes orchestration. With the VOS360 Channel Origination & Distribution Platform, all live streaming channels are fully managed by Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team to ensure high availability and reliability.

Using the platform, customers can seize every opportunity to create value, including creating pop-up channels based on major events, testing new markets and launch new brands, leveraging the internet to optimize syndication distribution and repurposing content to increase ROI.

Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team guarantees the highest levels of availability and reliability. All IT infrastructures, media processing and delivery applications are always fully functional, with maximum uptime. This takes the guesswork out of system upgrades and enhancements.

 

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Harmonic’s MediaGrid shared storage solution is an ideal fit for digital media applications requiring shared, real-time storage, such as ingest, playout, archive, edit-in-place, collaborative editing, transcoding and over-the-top (OTT) adaptive bitrate streaming. Simple to deploy, manage and scale, MediaGrid storage accelerates file-based workflows and provides the ability to manage the entire asset lifecycle. The system reduces the cost of storing media nearline, making it practical to economically deploy multi-petabyte digital media libraries and archives for video on demand (VOD) and other applications.

The MediaGrid system is purpose-built from the ground up to deliver high bandwidth and consistent low latency for video. Media operations can start with smaller MediaGrid systems — as little as 24 TB of usable capacity — and seamlessly scale to petabytes of capacity and tens of gigabytes per second of throughput. An industry-leading, high-density storage option — up to 504 TB of raw capacity in 5 RU — can reduce rack space by up to 60% and lower storage-related costs by up to 30%, minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) through its exceptional price/performance capabilities.

MediaGrid features include:

High Scalability
The MediaGrid system is based on a fully distributed scale-out architecture, resulting in increased performance as additional storage nodes are added. As the system is expanded, bandwidth and capacity increase linearly, actually improving access speed to content already on the system.

Simple and Cost-Effective
Based on standard hardware components and cost-effective Ethernet technology, MediaGrid system is economical to purchase and maintain. There’s no need for file system reconfiguration as you scale, or for file system defragmentation as the file system ages.

Optimized for Media Workflow
The MediaGrid shared storage works with dozens of leading media systems, including Harmonic Spectrum media servers and ProMedia™ X Origin multiscreen media servers. It also enables collaborative editing workflows with nonlinear editors, such as Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Avid® Media Composer® and Adobe® Premiere® Pro.

Reliability and Availability
MediaGrid systems have no single point of failure, and leverage features such as dual active-active controllers with transparent failover, redundant data paths to protect against storage node failures, and transparent client failover to protect against controller failures. No down time is required even for activities such as software and firmware upgrades or adding storage nodes.

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The Harmonic ProStream X video stream processor leverages advances in IT infrastructure to provide high-performance, high-throughput stream processing for mission-critical MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC delivery applications. The platform possesses a variety of advanced video processing capabilities, including multiplexing, scrambling, splicing and blackout switching. Featuring 10 Gbps throughput, it also serves as a high-capacity video gateway. The ProStream X stream processor runs on a 1-RU, COTS Intel® appliance and pairs with the Harmonic Electra™ X2 advanced media processor to deliver a compact, software-based solution for encoding and distributing superior-quality IP video streams.



ProStream X features include:

High-Throughput Processing
The ProStream X stream processor offers the choice of quad 1-GbE, dual 10-GbE or ASI I/O. The high-throughput 10-GbE option supports up to 2,000 simultaneous multiplexing and scrambling services. Gateway capabilities include socket address flipping, ASI-to-IP conversion and IP mirroring.

Scrambling
ProStream X is the industry’s first stream processor to support 128-bit DVB CSA3 encryption, integrated and certified by Cisco and Irdeto, making it the most secure stream processing solution for distributing UHD broadcast services. DVB CSA2, IPTV AES and BISS scrambling are also supported.

Statistical Multiplexing
Harmonic’s DiviTrackIP™ option integrates statistical multiplexing and IP switching by connecting ProStream X systems with remote Harmonic Electra X2 encoders across a LAN or WAN, allowing any ProStream X in the network to efficiently manage the encoders’ statmux pools.

Splicing
ProStream X processor supports both live-to-live splicing, which allows to switch between main and alternative live feeds seamlessly, with no ETR 290 errors at output.

“Pay As You Grow” Scalability
As processing needs evolve, the software-based ProStream X platform makes it easy to incrementally add or upgrade I/O modules and firmware licenses, simplifying scalability and extending the system’s value.

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The ViBE CP9000 contribution encoder from Harmonic addresses the call for preserving video quality at the front of the broadcast chain with the ability to process uncompressed UHD signals at eight times the bitrate of current HD sources, up to 160 Mbps. The platform encodes content in a single slice in real time via HEVC & AVC (H.264), today’s most advanced compression standard. Up to two UHD or eight HD video channels, and 16 audio channels, can be encoded on the 1-RU chassis.

The compact and rugged ViBE CP9000 encoder is a perfect fit for DSNG vehicles, teleports and flyaway packages. An ultra-low latency encoding mode, less than 100 ms, offers broadcasters the chance to get a true jump on the competition, and also enables home/remote production application.

ViBE CP9000 features include:

Comprehensive UHD Workflow
The ViBE CP9000 encoder is part of a comprehensive Harmonic UHD workflow that includes all phases of the broadcast chain, including contribution, file ingest, collaborative post production, encoding, high-speed transcoding and delivery. This end-to-end approach makes it possible to quickly and cost-effectively deploy a live UHD channel over existing DTT, DTH, cable, telco and OTT networks.

Flexible Deployment
Simple and cost-effective to deploy, the ViBE CP9000 encoder is interoperable with most professional decoders, including the Harmonic ProView™ 7100 IRD. It integrates seamlessly with the Harmonic Amethyst™ III smart redundancy switch as well, enabling a compact 1+1 UHD redundant solution in just 3 RU. DVB/SMPTE standards are supported.

HDR Support
Compatible with the Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) and SMPTE ST 2084 (PQ) HDR formats, the ViBE CP9000 encoder is ready for the next phases of UHD content delivery. As a result, image detail, sharpness and color gradients are preserved throughout the distribution process — right up to the consumer’s UHD display.

Pay-As-You-Grow Scalability
License-based pricing assures that customers pay only for the features they need. Video and audio codecs and formats are easily added to the ViBE CP9000 encoder via firmware upgrade, enabling a scalable migration path that provides operational flexibility and business continuity, and extends the system’s value.

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With Harmonic’s award-winning VOS360 media processing SaaS, content and service providers can move their offerings to the cloud and quickly launch new OTT services, without investing heavily in infrastructure. Harmonic’s solutions support the entire media processing workflow from ingest to distribution, increasing efficiency and cost savings; provide elastic capacity to support new services or peak events; and offer pay-as-you-grow pricing, boosting monetization.

Recently, Harmonic enhanced VOS360 SaaS with channel origination in the cloud capabilities for file-based and live streams. These new functionalities provide operators with support for graphics, branding, and digital video effects (DVE) for both file-based and live workflows in addition to pre-existing capabilities such as encoding, encryption and distribution.

By adding channel origination capabilities to VOS360 SaaS, Harmonic is helping drive the transition to software-based and cloud workflows, allowing video content and service providers to launch OTT offerings faster, increase their operational efficiencies and reduce opex and capex.

Unique playout capabilities and benefits include:

Live and file-based playout: Beyond just processing of live streams in the cloud, VOS360 SaaS allows video content and service providers to deliver file-based content from clips and graphics that augment the live streams. With other key processes (i.e., traffic, billing, asset management) already integrated or present in the cloud storage environment, operators can deliver complete channels that are comprised of live and file-based content all within the cloud infrastructure, without the need for conventional playout solutions. This opens up new monetization opportunities for operators.

Streamlined control: Harmonic offers seamless integration for control systems in the cloud to streamline playout management. An API and user-based controls for the playlist enable users to manage channels, as needed. With the control system present in the cloud environment, users can focus their attention on other important tasks as opposed to continuously checking the playlist status.

Reduced operational costs: Service operators using cloud solutions for OTT delivery would normally perform playout operations on-premises (i.e., playback of video clips, graphics and branding) and send a live stream into the cloud, where they would then apply different delivery platform profiles for broadcast and OTT. Now that VOS360 SaaS includes playout capabilities, operators can run entire channels in the cloud. This dramatically reduces operational costs, because operators no longer need physical infrastructure on-premises. Pay-as-you-go pricing for VOS360 allows operators to realize ROI in the shortest time possible.

Orchestrated management: Playout functionality is built into the VOS360 SaaS solution. There are centralized services for management, profiles, tracking of user accounts, billing, DevOps, interfaces, and more.

Maintenance and monitoring: Harmonic’s VOS360 SaaS is fully maintained and monitored by Harmonic to keep services operational, resulting in better quality of experience for end customers.

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Our Media Platform is the simplest way to prepare, deliver, display, and monetize your content. It's built for the future of media with a comprehensive video streaming service that meets consumer-demand for speed, reliability, and TV-quality viewing experiences. The platform is built on the world’s largest, most connected delivery network, ensuring high-quality, instant-on viewing of digital content on every device, every time, everywhere. Multilayered content security is built into the platform to keep your origin server and content safe from the worst cyberthreats the web has to offer. And whether you’re a national broadcaster or a local content creator, you’re backed by 24 x 7 live engineering support services in five service centers around the world. Learn why more than 10,000 of the world’s largest publishers, media companies and enterprises count on our Media Platform to deliver seamless digital content for today’s demanding online viewers. Visit us at https://www.verizonmedia.com/media-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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Enterprise-class OTT Streaming:
Superior, scalable, real-time adaptive bit rate encoding for SD, HD and UHD HDR sources into AVC and HEVC. Lightspeed Live Stream can ingest multiple baseband SDI or IP video sources (MPTS, SPTS, RTMP) and encode multiple variants or ABR packages and deploy them to multiple destinations or host the origin.

Easy to Use, Easy to Manage:
Simple, powerful web-based GUI provides complete control over all sources, encoding groups, templates and channel outputs. XML import and export for scalable system deployment. RESTful API for operational control, triggering and status monitoring.

Stream Conditioning for Frame-Accurate Ad-Insertion:
Lightspeed Live Stream will detect SCTE 35/104 and place an IDR (Instantaneous Decoder Refresh) frame at the boundary so that downstream equipment or server-side content replacement and ad insertion can take place seamlessly and cleanly without without requiring re-encoding of the existing stream; improving quality and efficiency. Lightspeed Live will condition your streams for ad-insertion on any output, including HLS, DASH and RTMP.

Screen-Ready Packaging and Delivery:
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG DASH, MP4, and CMAF packaging. Deploy via RTMP, local origin, or distribute to CDNs. Supports DRM and encryption options. Choose the output and delivery options that you need.

Simulcast to Social Media:
Drive a larger audience to your program and boost engagement through leading social media platforms. Lightspeed Live Stream has direct API integration with Facebook Live, YouTube Live, and RTMP streaming, for a complete publishing solution.

Automated Workflows, Triggers:
Built in scheduling, playlisting, branding, and event triggering features allow for agile broadcasting and channel deployment. Lightspeed Live recognizes SCTE 35/104 triggers and VANC data to allow for programmatic ad-insertion and content replacement, so you can respect content rights, and monetize more viewing windows. With our new IDR stream conditioning technology, you can be sure that all downstream content replacement and ad insertion will always begin on a full frame and be clean and seamless across all variants.

Unified Live and File-based Workflow:
Lightspeed Live Stream can be combined with Lightspeed Live Capture to record the highest-quality mezzanine files for delivery into file-based workflows. When coupled with our world-leading media processing platform, Vantage, your content can be seamlessly and efficiently conditioned (ads removed, content added, bumpers, branding, captioning, etc.) and delivered to any viewing window, with complete, end-to-end automation.

NEW! Support for Avid Interplay Check-in:
Lightspeed Live Capture allows you to check your captured assets (even if they’re still capturing) directly into Avid or Adobe-based NLE systems. Whether your editors are using Interplay or just Media Composer or Adobe CS, they can grab growing files captured by Lightspeed Live Capture and begin editing right away. No need to wait, no need to change your post-production workflow.

Growing File Record for Open Workflows
Record any source into growing files for instant, ongoing delivery to any production or processing workflow. Record and share edit-ready formats with Avid Media Central, Avid Interplay, Adobe Premiere, Switch, Vantage Social Media Connector, Apple Final Cut Pro and more. Lower turnaround times for clips, highlights or promo packages in live and post-production environments.

NEW! Compatibility with Aspera Faspex file transfer service allows you to capture growing files on-site and work on them remotely over unmanaged networks in real-time.

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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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Goose is the most affordable OTT SaaS platform in the global market, and we help you to monetize your VOD + Live channnels with SVOD, TVOD, AVOD by providing a self-serving white label platform, using which you can launch your own branded video streaming service in a most efficient way.

Highlights:

1)Live TV and VOD in one platform

2)streaming service across multi devices

3)Develop your offline reseller distribution network

4)Quick time to market (30 days)

5)No setup fee and upgrade fee

6)Zero-coding maintenance

7)Flexible user acquisition options

8)Vcoin exchange/promotion

9)Pre-paid and post-paid payment supported

10)Abstract special content and recommend(e.g.Sports, Live to 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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Edgeware’s StreamBuilder does the preparation of live and VoD content that is necessary for OTT distribution to any device. Accurate segmentation of streams, storing content for time-shift services, just in time ABR packaging to any format and any device (HLS, DASH, MSS) including encryption are all offered in the StreamBuilder product family. Add to this our innovative technology to create tailor made channels and live streams using the Virtual Channel Creation, our Ad Insertion technology, OCR-based transcoding of Subtitles and the possibility to deploy and run the whole lot on a wide range of cloud platforms or on regular COTS machines!

StreamBuilder includes the following products:

• Ingest and Segmentation


• Time-shift TV


• Packager and Protection


• Ad Enabler


• OCR Subtitling

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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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A cohesive, highly scalable, micro service for delivery focused Media Asset Management. Due to the tight integration with the VIPE publishing platform, it reduces complexity in the infrastructure, resulting in a simple and reliable supply chain.

In the era of multichannel playout, file-based workflows and existing channel management systems, the specific delivery requirements often result in a complex infrastructure. VIPE MAM is designed to offer transparent (automated) workflows, resulting in increased control, reliability and efficiency.

VIPE MAM manages both primary as well as secondary media files. It handles all aspects of the workflow from ingest, QC, Soft parting, subtitles/audio management to enhancing/modifying any asset data. All metadata is fully indexed and searchable. Usability experience is powered by elastic search, particularly useful for large volume databases.

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A business-class OTT delivery solution to expand broadcasters' and TV operators' multi-platform product.

The invasion of Over-the-Top (OTT) services has begun, it is time for media operators to prepare their positions and choose their weapons to win the battles for media, mobile and cloud services.

Etere OTT Delivery is the solution that enables you to get a quick and easy way to export your content to over-the-top platform provider, meet all contract terms and media formatting requirements while ensuring the protection of your premium assets.

The broadcasting industry is well known for being a rapidly-evolving landscape, Etere's strong grasp of industry's trends and innovative technologies enables you to keep up the pace. Etere OTT Delivery is the innovative and revolutionary solution to enrich your broadcasting and make you the next generation media winner.

Key Features

Etere OTT Delivery module enables content providers to manage the distribution of their OTT content over a variety of media platforms. Delivery orders managed in this module have:

■ Facilitated order compilation and multi-change capabilities

■ OTT Ad Insertion: Create multiple sub-playlists to be generated from the main playlist

■ Exclusive relation to a specific platform

■ Easy duplication of orders to extend platforms

■ Multi-platform delivery of assets through different orders

■ Custom XML headers per order/platform

■ Automatic workflow preparation and export of files

■ Track and consult all delivered assets through accurate reports

■ Defines the rights agreement that determines the platforms through which the delivered content can be transmitted through diffusion of Rights

■ Real-time payment tracking of delivered content

■ "ToDo Notifications" tool allows easy creation of reminders to be automatically delivered via e-mail at specific times, for example, to remind the accountancy department to perform the payment of the sold rights

■ Search delivery orders easily via search filters

■ Distribute content over a variety of media platforms including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, Redbox Instant, Vudu, Vodafone TV, CanalSat, Orange Nouvelle TV

■ Specify all delivery conditions such as licensee, platform, metadata, asset(s) and workflow to be executed

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PlayBox Technology’s OTT content management system (CMS) represents the most cost-effective way to develop an OTT video platform with a mixture of both live channels and on-demand media.

 

Offered as perpetual license or rental, it includes unlimited subscribers, video on demand (VOD) content listings and live channel listings. Desktop and Mobile applications are also included (Windows, Linux, iOS and Android). It is  white labelled and you have complete control over the back-end, with enhanced subscriber management and configuration options.

Configure the payment gateways of your choice or facilitate advertisements through Google Adsense and other advertisement providers.

We have developed a seamless transition process for the deployment of our OTT CMS that will allow you to onboard without stress or delay. Our dedicated internal support team will work with you to establish a specific timeline for complete deployment, and will support you throughout the transition process.

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With Vizzi, users get an end-to-end solution that covers every aspect of the OTT chain, adapting to every specific requirement: Media Preparation, Management, Distribution, and Consumption, with no loose ends.

VIZZI is a powerful, robust, and cost-effective end-to-end video platform that combines in one place all the flexible and scalable tools that Media companies, Broadcasters, Mobile Service Providers, Telecoms, ISP´s and Pay TV operators to need, for the dynamic delivery of Live TV and VOD services across any IP-based device, deployed on the cloud, on-premises or using a hybrid architecture.

Media Preparation: 

• Record, Ingest, Transcode, Playout, Stream, Encode, Decode, Packaging, Catch-up Storage, Metadata enrichment;


• Live Channels Ingest;


• EPG Ingest.

Media Management:

• Intuitive CMS Backend;


• User Management;


• Rights Management;


• Catch-up, nPVR;


• Assets and Metadata Management


• Analytics


• Flexible Monetization Models;


• DVR Scheduler;

Distribution:

• AOS and CDN;


• Encryption DRM


• Packaging

Consumption:

• White-label Player;


• Multiple Devices Support and OS Support

Experience:

• Catch-up;


• Piracy Protection;


• Visual Designer.

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Nebula provides a wide range of specialist media processing tools and also allow you to leverage the growing number of web based services with a focus on language localisation, access services, speech to text, synthetic voice creation and other broadcast ancillary data services on all platforms, TV, Tablet and Mobile.

Nebula offers unparalleled flexibility in choosing where to process your valuable media files. The often conflicting requirements of security, cost and fast access make it challenging to design your media handling workflows. Nebula allows you to tailor specialist tools to fit in with your workflows and to process your media files where and when you choose.

Local Processing
Quick, simple and secure – load a Nebula Engine onto your PC, process the files locally and when complete the Nebula engine will delete itself.

In Facility Processing
Fast and secure – run one or multiple Nebula Engines in your facility on your servers. You are in complete control of all access rights and the media files never leave your facility. Any Nebula tools you need download and run on your servers and terminate on completion.

Process in the Cloud
Nebula offers unparalleled flexibility in choosing where to process your valuable media files. The often conflicting requirements of security, cost and fast access make it challenging to design your media handling workflows. Nebula allows you to tailor specialist tools to fit in with your workflows and to process your media files where and when you choose.

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Stellar - A browser based Web App for working with timed text and media.

There are many reasons to create and edit text timed against media and Stellar provides a set of tools to work to do this for a range of applications; quickly, simply and affordably. Stellar provides comprehensive functionality for the creation, review and editing of subtitles, closed captions, audio description and transcript.

By working in conjunction with Nebula’s powerful distributed processing capabilities Stellar provides the best combination of performance, flexibility, security and ease of use.

Stellar provides the speed and user experience of a PC App with the flexibility and easy deployment of a Web App.

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Anevia’s OTT origin/packager, NEA-Live®, enables you to launch broadcast-quality, FullHD live and time-shifted TV services quickly, securely, and with minimum latency.

NEA-Live records, packages and streams live and near-live content to any connected consumer or operator device – fast. Our packager was designed to manage the complexity of multiple streaming, subtitling and audio formats, and is integrated with all major DRM solutions, so your content will always be viewable, and secure, on every device, now and in the future.

We package content Just-in-Time, so video assets are sent to end-user devices in real-time, instead of being pre-packaged into each streaming protocol. This reduces the amount of storage you need and can lower bandwidth costs as your multiscreen content library grows.

And since content is cached directly on NEA-Live, it can be delivered more quickly to your CDN. Performance is improved, latency lowered to a minimum and your costs are reduced by 10% because you need fewer servers. So you go to market with high quality, low-latency and future-proof multiscreen TV services.

Key features: - Low latency (under 5 seconds) live streaming to any screen - Just-in-Time packaging reduces needed storage and lowers bandwidth costs - Integrated with all major DRM solutions - Multiple streaming, subtitling and audio formats

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Interra Systems’ ORION-OTT is a comprehensive monitoring solution for LIVE services and VOD assets, in the cloud or on-prem. It offers a high performance, scalable solution to verify ABR videos for monitoring both QoS and QoE. ORION-OTT also provides passive monitoring of origin server performance and end-user devices understand recurrent issues and their causes.

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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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Limelight Multi-device Media Delivery (MMD) Live is a powerful cloud-based feature for transcoding live video streams into multiple bitrates, and on-the-fly transmuxing into different formats, enabling a live event to be recorded for later playback. MMD Live reduces workflow complexity while meeting the demands of audiences for the highest quality video viewing experience on their choice of devices. This functionality allows users to stream live events to smart TVs, desktops, mobile screens, and set-top-boxes. MMD Live is integrated with the global Limelight Orchestrate Platform to deliver broadcast-quality live video to connected devices.

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The Limelight Multi-device Media Delivery (MMD) On-Demand (OD) solution is a powerful cloud-based set of video delivery services for automatically converting video content into different formats, which reduces workflow complexity and storage costs, while meeting the demands of device diversity. MMD OD is integrated with Limelight’s global Orchestrate Platform to deliver broadcast-quality video to all connected devices worldwide.

Publish » Linear Signal Distribution » Distribution & Re-distribution » Edge devices »

Limelight Content Delivery Services ensure your content is optimized and delivered with the lowest latency, best reliability, and highest origin offload. These services are part of the Limelight Orchestrate Platform, which integrates our massive global private infrastructure, advanced content delivery capabilities, and support services.

By positioning website content in edge caches, leveraging last mile acceleration, customizing requests and responses, and ensuring appropriate and secure access, Limelight ensures content can be quickly delivered, anywhere, anytime, with the quality of experience your audience expects.

Manage » Manage & Orchestrate » Data & Metadata Management » (Meta)data aggregation and management »

Limelight Video Platform is the fastest and most intuitive way to manage and distribute online video to media devices everywhere. Engage web audiences with immersive video content. Track performance and collect valuable metrics from your viewers. The power and simplicity of Limelight Video Platform lets you manage, publish, syndicate, measure, and monetize web video with ease. Upload your source file and our transcoding services automatically handle video format conversions and publishing steps required for optimized viewing on any device, anywhere. The video platform is integrated with the global Orchestrate Platform to deliver the high-quality viewing experience audiences expect.

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What is HESP?

HESP is an HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) streaming protocol that enables streaming services to be delivered with sub second latency, with a significantly reduced streaming bandwidth, at scale. An impressive list of improvements, further augmented by significantly reduced zapping times, pushing viewer experience and engagement to the next level.

HESP allows you to stream with, on average, a latency that is 7 times lower than current industry standard low-latency HAS approaches. An end-to-end latency of up to 400ms can be achieved. Low enough to enable new interactive TV formats and services. When using the HESP protocol the average zapping time is 20 times faster than with industry standard low latency streaming approaches. With a zapping time of less than 100ms, the channel change will happen in the blink of an eye.

What is the HESP Alliance?

The HESP Alliance was launched on the 1st July 2020. The HESP Alliance was launched by founding members; THEO Technologies and Synamedia. With the aim to bring together streaming video vendors and media companies to provide superior online video quality of experience at reduced cost through standardising and advancing the High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP) and marketing of HESP solutions.

Monetize » Sell Content & Advertising » Advertising Systems » Advertising sales systems »

Introducing EMSSThe Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS) standardises the interaction between a Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) server and the video player.

The exchange of metadata is not standardised, resulting in multiple proprietary systems. This means that custom integrations for SSAI are almost always necessary for each SSAI solution, which then leads to vendor lock-in.

EMSS SpecificationThe specification discusses the standard for metadata, how that metadata is transported in HLS or DASH, and how the metadata should be processed.

This specification touches on announcing and annotating ads to the viewer, modifying UI during ad playback, enforcing business rules for skipping over ads and beaconing.

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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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Convert your files into all of the latest formats, codecs and resolutions including HLS, MPEG-DASH, MP4, WebM, MKV, h.264, HEVC (h.265), VP9, AV1 and many more.

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Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software is the most advanced media processing and delivery software for private data centers. It runs on a wide range of COTS hardware and virtualization layers to power demanding and complex playout, broadcast and OTT systems. Through the VOS Hub connection users can move an entire video platform from a private data center to public cloud and vice versa, with ease.

VOS software makes it simple and fast to launch and manage end-to-end professional media workflows in private data centers, as well as ingest live or file-based content, including uncompressed video over IP. With VOS software, users can create schedules, play out channels and process all content for OTT streaming and broadcast delivery, with ease.

Advanced orchestration capabilities allow users to connect and synchronize all microservices for every workflow. VOS software abstracts and manages IT infrastructures using load-balancing mechanisms to optimize the use of resources and manage redundancy with minimum overhead, eliminating the need for siloed systems.

The software is infrastructure neutral, supporting a wide range of COTS hardware and virtualization layers such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Openshift, and other bare metal configurations. This neutrality ensures complete compatibility, making it easy to align IT and business preferences. With VOS software, on-premises deployments can be backed up in a public cloud environment in just minutes.

Built-in, AI-enabled and globally deployed VOS core compression technology reduces the typical bandwidth needed for OTT delivery by about half.  VOS software is built for agile, hybrid video service delivery, with capabilities for satellite broadcasting, full statmux and OTT streaming. It supports a wide range of use cases, including live streaming, time-shifting, network DVR, targeted ad insertion, packaging and origin on the fly, from one simple platform.

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Integrated playout (channel-in-a-box) »

Harmonic’s VOS®360 Channel Origination & Distribution Platform is an advanced, fully managed, channel origination and distribution platform for total content control. The schedule-based delivery solution enables the creation of linear channels, live events and streams, direct to consumers or syndication partners, at lightning speed, through one simple platform, without deploying complex infrastructure.

Through the platform, users have creative control over sources, assets, schedules, monitoring and metrics, with real-time agility. The platform ensures fast channel origination by allowing users to fine-tune the output for each channel, including graphics, animations, captions, subtitles and embedded signaling.

Adapting and creating channel playlists is simple with the VOS360 platform. Users can build a playlist for clips and graphics manually, use built-in scheduling, or import from an external traffic system. The VOS API also gives users the freedom to create and manage with their choice of external playout control.

All in the cloud, the platform is built around docker containers and microservices using Kubernetes orchestration. With the VOS360 Channel Origination & Distribution Platform, all live streaming channels are fully managed by Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team to ensure high availability and reliability.

Using the platform, customers can seize every opportunity to create value, including creating pop-up channels based on major events, testing new markets and launch new brands, leveraging the internet to optimize syndication distribution and repurposing content to increase ROI.

Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team guarantees the highest levels of availability and reliability. All IT infrastructures, media processing and delivery applications are always fully functional, with maximum uptime. This takes the guesswork out of system upgrades and enhancements.

 

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Harmonic’s VOS®360 Live Streaming Platform leverages the flexibility of cloud infrastructures to meet the demanding and complex requirements of live video streaming. The fully managed solution is cloud-neutral and runs on a wide range of public cloud platforms, efficiently handling all stages of the media processing and delivery chain.

The platform is built around docker containers and microservices using Kubernetes orchestration. It offers a rich API and a range of easy to use features accessible at any time. Live streaming channels are fully managed by Harmonic’s DevOps team to ensure the highest level of availability and reliability.

The VOS360 Live Streaming Platform optimizes live video delivery with flexible and real-time scaling to handle peaks in viewership, which is extremely useful for live sports. The platform uses a range of technologies to dynamically select the best available paths between content delivery networks and caching clusters.

Supporting a range of functionalities, including live and file transcoding, packaging and origin, dynamic real-time CDN selection, targeted advertising, VOD, SVOD, time-shift and network DVR, the VOS360 platform simplifies delivery from source to screen and accelerates time to market for new revenue-generating streaming services. The platform ensures high-quality streaming through exceptional encoding efficiency and by delivering low latency, utilizing advanced compression engines to reduce bandwidth by an average of 50% along with the latest developments in artificial intelligence.

Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team guarantees the highest levels of availability and reliability. All IT infrastructures, media processing and delivery applications are always fully functional, with maximum uptime. This takes the guesswork out of system upgrades and enhancements.

 Today, the VOS360 Live Streaming Platform powers millions of simultaneous streams, thousands of live channels, countless VOD requests and hundreds of petabytes of storage and delivery.

 

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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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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.

Publish » Internet Distribution » Internet Distribution » Content delivery networks (CDNs) »

S4Streaming, a revolutionary technology that gives video service providers more control over streaming quality and bandwidth usage.

Through a unique combination of server-side technologies, S4Streaming assesses and selects the appropriate quality for video streaming, ultimately reducing the latency of live streams, enabling higher bitrates for on-demand content delivery and decreasing video quality changes when network conditions vary. Using S4Streaming, service providers can deliver a superior quality of experience (QoE) for their video streaming service on any device and increase the control over the network.

Publish » Linear Playout » Linear Playout Systems » Integrated playout (channel-in-a-box) »

Easel TV OTT delivers a complete streaming media/OTT cloud video service to the world's leading consumer devices.

The Easel TV OTT Dashboard provides a rich set of cloud features in an extensive suite of management tools; a powerful CRM and CMS management system which provides content and user management, promotional tools and reporting, all through a single portal.

Our award-winning template-driven consumer applications provide a feature-rich, intuitive and cohesive user experience across web, TV and mobile devices.

We avoid expensive multi-partner solutions by having a ready-made horizontal systems integrated OTT service. In this way, we look to minimise the risk and increase the return on your investment by using an OTT VOD platform that is already up and running, tried, tested and approved.

Built on Amazon and Microsoft cloud technology, and the world's largest CDNs, Easel TV OTT provides an immediate low-cost route to market, using a stable, scalable cloud service.

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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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CryptoLITE is a complete end-to-end OTT solution which includes all processing and distribution of OTT broadcast streams to end-user devices such as mobiles, STB’s and PC’s. The entire OTT solution is supplied by CryptoGuard and is cost-effective and quick to deploy. CryptoLITE OTT system has superb scaling capability with a pay-as-you-grow business model, ideal for any size operator. The solution offers enhanced viewer experience with advanced TV features such as Live-TV, Time shifting, Catchup, Start-over, nPVR and VOD. The DRM formats including Google-Widevine, Apple-FairPlay and Microsoft-PlayReady are supported enabling a highly secure content delivery. These DRMs are natively supported by the browser, mobile device or set-top box and are approved by major studios.

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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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Drive serious results with seriously little effort. Now you can publish video to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from a single location with the added benefit of knowing your videos are playing on each network’s native player for maximum reach.

Get complete visibility into your social video performance—in one dashboard. Brightcove Social consolidates all of your social video analytics so you can see your true ROI across social channels, track social interactions per video, and quickly assess what’s working and where.

Slash the time and resources you need to get your social video out there with streamlined scheduling. Then, tap into even more time savings with the folders, search, and batch editing tools you get with Video Cloud’s content management system.

Edit and optimize your videos for each social network faster and easier than ever before. With Brightcove Social you can clip, add video bumpers, categories, descriptions, and tags right in the tool, so you know you’re reaching the right people with the right content, every time.

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Quickly and easily live stream events with an intuitive interface, unmatched quality, and industry-leading support before, during, and after your event. Deliver reliable full-featured live streams at scale, optimized for performance and quality, across multiple devices and platforms with our geographically-distributed cloud architecture. Bypass ad blockers with one-of-a-kind server-side ad insertion (SSAI) technology. Combine live video and ad-supported content into one continuous stream, giving audiences pause-free, glitch-free, and buffer-free viewing. Create clips of your event during the live stream and then publish them on your sites or social channels to drive engagement. Embed your interactive live experience in your website to drive organic engagement.

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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.

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