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.
Other products from this company:
Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS)
High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP)
THEOplayer
THEOplayer
Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS)
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.
High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (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.
THEOplayer
THEOplayer is a Universal Video Player developed by THEO Technologies trusted by hundreds of leading payTV and OTT service providers, broadcasters, and publishers worldwide. Through its feature-rich SDKs and wide video ecosystem pre-integrations, we enable video service providers to quickly bring a consistent video playback experience across any device or platform.
THEO is the leading provider of universal video playback technologies for online media companies and enterprises worldwide. Our flagship product, THEOplayer, is the Universal Video Player that enables hundreds of leading payTV and OTT service providers, broadcasters, and publishers worldwide. Through its feature-rich SDKs and wide video ecosystem pre-integrations, we enable video service providers to quickly bring a consistent video playback experience across any device or platform.
THEO's technology innovations also focus on low latency video delivery. Including LL-HLS, LL-DASH and THEO’s proprietary High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP). HESP delivers low-bandwidth, sub-second latency streaming with fast zapping times. Going the extra mile, THEO is also standardising metadata delivery through its proprietary Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS), making it easier to implement SSAI and interactive video streaming.
THEOplayer
THEO Technologies’ purpose is to facilitate the perfect video experience on any platform or device, at any time and everywhere. It is our ambition to empower publishers, video publishers, telcos and broadcasters to monetise their content and deliver cutting edge video experiences to their audiences.
The online video industry is evolving at a rate of knots. The need for each aspect of the video chain to interwork seamlessly together is becoming a fundamental requirement in delivering a premium video experience. This reality has been recognized by THEO Technologies when designing the THEOplayer Universal Video Player. The single player capability across devices, combined with our deep video playback expertise, dedication to innovate and focus on value-adding partnerships is helping us deliver world-class video streaming experiences to our clients.
Video player solution/SDK Winner of European readers' choice awards Streaming Media East 2016Our global customer base covers all regions and industry segments. We are powering some of the largest streaming services in the world including: Telenet, CNN, Swisscom, Telegraaf Media Groep, NBC, VRT, Ericsson, Cisco, France Télévisions, Telia, European Parliament, NASDAQ, Softbank among many others.
In 2017, THEOplayer was named winner of the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice awards as World's Best Video Player Solution/SDK. THEOplayer has proven compatibility with industry-leading solutions for streaming, advertising, DRM, analytics and server side ad insertion.
THEO Technologies is one of the fastest growing technology companies in Belgium. We are an ambitious team who have been disrupting the global online video industry since 2012.
THEO Technologies has offices in Leuven (Belgium), New York and San Francisco (USA).
THEOplayer
THEOplayer
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Lightspeed Live
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:
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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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Broadpeak CDN – TV everywhere
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Highlights:
1)Live TV and VOD in one platform
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OTT Stream
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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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Etere OTT Delivery
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
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■ 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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Cloud PVR
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And you ease your maintenance and support costs while increasing the engagement of your subscribers with your company.
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nanoCDN multicast ABR
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Edgeware StreamBuilder
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Edgeware TV CDN Infrastructure
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It takes TV delivery closer to the viewer, meaning content caching and streaming are provided in the edge for the best possible viewing experience.
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BCNEXXT VIPE MAM
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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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Stellar
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.
Vizzi – Next Generation OTT-TV Platform
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Media Preparation:
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Media Management:
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- AOS and CDN;
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Consumption:
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Experience:
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Nebula
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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.
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Easel TV OTT
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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 Aquila On-Demand
- 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)•
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Limelight Video Platform
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Limelight Multi-Device Media Delivery (MMD) On-Demand
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Limelight Multi-Device Media Delivery (MMD) Live Video Streaming
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Limelight Content Delivery 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.
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Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software
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
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 VOS®360 Live Streaming Platform
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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NEA-Live®
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
Easel TV OTT Service
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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End-to-End OTT solution
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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High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (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.
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Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS)
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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Infinite Platform
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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MediaScaleX // Origin
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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Brightcove Live
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Brightcove Social
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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DataMiner
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
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