Limelight Multi-Device Media Delivery (MMD) Live Video Streaming

EdgeFunctions simplifies development and reduces time to production for streaming video and content delivery use cases.

Limelight EdgeFunctions is a serverless compute platform that automatically makes your code available to many edge locations around the world, executes at the network edge close to your users to ensure the lowest latency, and scales to meet demand. EdgeFunctions is ideal for customers needing to implement streaming video and content delivery use cases such as personalized streaming, access control, dynamic ad insertion, A/B testing, image manipulation, and more. It is tightly integrated with one of the world’s highest-performing video and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). EdgeFunctions gives developers tools to boost performance, customize workflows, and scale rapidly while only paying for resources used.

With EdgeFunctions, developers are able to run their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, simplifying development, and reducing time to production. It enables developers to concentrate on what they are good at: coding!

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


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


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


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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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

• Faster time to market for media content


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


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


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


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

• Detection of 4 bi-directional channels of SDI video compliant with SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 292M and SMPTE 424M.


• SDI jitter management per SMPTE RP184YCrCb 4:2:2, 8-bit or 10-bit, and 4:2:0, 8-bit code streams.


• Per-channel encapsulation and de-encapsulation into/from RTP/UDP/IP packets per SMPTE 2022-6.


• Per-channel protection via FEC in compliant with SMPTE 2022-5.


• Dual presentation of packets via two separate physical interfaces for optimum hitless protection in compliance with SMPTE 2022-7.


• Dual path IGMP V2 and V3 Multicast with fast leave.


• PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms.


• Network over-subscription policing on all SDI inputs.


• RESTful HTTP open media API, automatically discoverable, exposing all primitives.


• Intuitive, automatically discoverable user interface via integrated web server.

• Detection of 4 uni-directional channels of ASI compliant with EN 50083-9 carrying single or multi-program transport streams.


• Extracts 188 byte or 204 byte transport streams from ASI inputs.


• Encapsulation and de-encapsulation into RTP/UDP/IP packets per SMPTE 2022-2.


• FEC protection compliant with SMPTE 2022-1.


• Dual presentation of packets via two separate physical interfaces for optimum per-channel hitless protection in compliance with SMPTE 2022-7.


• Dual path IGMP V2 and V3 Multicast with fast leave.


• De-encapsulator PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms. - ASI transport stream outputs linearized in packet mode.


• RESTFUL HTTP open media API, automatically discoverable, exposing all primitives.


• Intuitive, automatically discoverable user interface via integrated web server.

• Detection of two unidirectional channels of SDI video compliant with SMPTE 259, SMPTE 292/274, and SMPTE 424/274.


• H.264 transport stream mapping compliant with IEC 13818-1. ▪ YCrCb 4:2:2, 8-bit or 10-bit, and 4:2:0, 8-bit code streams.


• Compressed ES rates of up to 150Mbps (I-frame only) and down to 5Mbps for IP frame GOP.


• Per-channel encapsulation and de-encapsulation into RTP/UDP/IP packets per SMPTE 2022-2.


• FEC insertion as per SMPTE 2022-1. ▪ Transparent transfer of ancillary data per video in accordance with SMPTE 2038 and TR-01.


• Configurable to Baseline, Main, High, High 10, and High 4:2:2 H.264 profiles.


• Ultra-low latency, configurable to less than 1ms.


• Configurable GOP structure.


• Automatic Dolby E audio pass-through.


• MPEG-1 Audio Layer II audio compression up to 384 Kbps.


• Dual presentation of packets via two separate physical interfaces for optimum per-channel hitless protection in compliance with SMPTE 2022-7.


• Dual path IGMP V2 and V3 Multicast with fast leave.


• Decoder PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms.


• Decoders with and without B-frame Decoding available.


• RESTful HTTP open media API, automatically discoverable, exposing all primitives.


• Intuitive, automatically discoverable user interface via integrated web server.

• Detection of 4 unidirectional channels of SDI video compliant with SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 292M or SMPTE 424M.


• JPEG 2000 mapping compliant with TR-01.


• YCrCb 4:2:2, 10 bit, J2K ISO/IEC 15444-1 code stream.


• Compressed ES rates of up to 460Mbps for HD-SDI.


• Per-channel encapsulation and de-encapsulation into RTP/UDP/IP packets per SMPTE 2022-2.


• Selectable two or four AES uncompressed audio per video in accordance with SMPTE 302 and TR-01.


• Transparent transfer of ancillary data per video in accordance with SMPTE 2038 and TR-01.


• Dual presentation of packets via two separate physical interfaces for optimum per-channel hitless protection in compliance with SMPTE 2022-7.


• Dual path IGMP V2 and V3 Multicast with fast leave.


• PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms.


• RESTFUL HTTP open media API, automatically discoverable, exposing all primitives.


• Intuitive, automatically discoverable user interface via integrated web server.

• 4K UHD Quad-Link 3G-SDI per ST 425-5 with one simultaneous encoding or decoding channel.


• 4x 3G-SDI with up to four simultaneous encoding or decoding channels. Compression


• Offers TICO Encode (Profile 2) and TICO Decode (Profile 1 & 2).


• Visually lossless at 4:1 CBR, and virtually mathematically lossless at 2:1 CBR. RTP Encapsulation


• Video encapsulated according to SMPTE RDD35.


• Audio encapsulated according to AES67.


• Ancillary data encapsulated according to SMPTE 2038. Timing and Synchronization.


• SMPTE 2059-2 PTP (Precision Time Protocol) used when available.


• High quality reference if PTP isn’t available.

• RTP replication and hitless merging according to SMPTE 2022-7.


• Dual path IGMP v2 and IGMP v3.


• Multicast with fast leave.


• PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms.

• Open RESTful HTTP HAL & JSON open media API


• Automatically discoverable, highly intuitive interface offering extensive monitoring and configuration

• Configurable and dynamically adjustable codec


• Integrate with a wide portfolio of Xilinx and partner IP cores such as 12G-SDI, ST 2110, HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.2 etc.


• Up to 4K60 4:2:2 10-bit H.264/H.265 encode + decode


• Multichannel support up to 4K60 (e.g. 2x 1080p60 or 4x 1080p30)


• Ultra-low-latency mode of <35ms glass-to-glass


• Total device power for a single pipeline as low as 8.5W

The introduction of the ARM-based Apple M1 chipset for the new MacBooks and Mac mini, as well as ARM processors already in production within the Windows PC ecosystem, brings us to an inflection point within the video production industry.

The average consumer may not know the difference between an ARM-based MacBook or PC and the x86 version. They will, however, know when software doesn’t work on their new hardware. At MainConcept, we are making the transition seamless by bringing our best-in-class video codecs to macOS and Windows on ARM processors.

Today’s production workflows are heterogeneous deployments, i.e. running on local server farms, or in the cloud, or as hybrid solutions. No standard software fits all possible requirements for data transfer, platform integration, scalability, user interface or codec and streaming features. Thus creating an optimized broadcast workflow is a challenge. MainConcept 2GO products are the building blocks with the perfect balance between flexible usage and fast integration in your work environment or service. Bundled in an isolated container each 2GO product is unique, easy to deploy, scale and ready-to-use in any process. Whether you are looking for a live streaming feature, an archiving module, a distributed transcoder, or an on-demand packaging and distribution add-on. The usage scenarios for MainConcept 2GO are endless. And it’s as easy as download, install and use.

The MainConceptⓇ 2GO products are containerized applications that run in all environments supported by Docker. Known systems include Microsoft Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 & 2019, Linux and most cloud platforms from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Support on Windows 7 and macOS is limited with Docker Toolbox and a 3rd party virtualization software.

Please note that on Windows you must configure Docker for Linux Containers, so you should use the CE (Community Edition) rather than EE (Enterprise Edition) version of Docker. Docker CE requires a full GUI to install, so for this reason, Windows Server 2016 users must have the full ‘desktop experience’ installed. The lighter-weight versions of Windows Server 2016 cannot be used because they do not have a full GUI. Other versions of Windows only have a full GUI. Due to some limitations in VirtualBox, MainConcept 2GO does not work if you are running the VM tool with Windows Server 2016.

Computers running MainConcept 2GO products need an outgoing internet connection via port 443 (https).

In real-time you can encode content into multi-bitrate and multi-resolution layers, for a complete OTT ready output that includes playlist generation. The powerful solution also offers a variety of prepared encoding presets for simplified parallel live encoding, upload to supported CDNs, and live archiving.MainConcept Live Encoder is available in both Windows and Linux, as a web-application or easily integrated using REST-API.

• AAC and HE-AAC offer a significantly better audio quality while using the same bit rate as other audio codecs, especially for bit rates below 192 kbps.


• AAC may only need a fraction of the bandwidth than MP3 for your field of application (e.g. broadcasting concerts), thus resulting file sizes will be smaller too.


• AAC offers a significantly higher coding as well as compression efficiency and allows you a higher flexibility in usage than MP3.

• Decoder Pack MPEG-2


• Decoder Pack AVC/H.264 Pro


• Decoder Pack AVC/H.264 Broadcast


• Decoder Pack DVCPRO HD

• Blu-ray Disc*


• Adobe Flash F4V streams


• AVC-Intra Class 50 and Class 100


• DVD*


• Sony XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, XDCAM DV and XDCAM IMX


• Panasonic P2 DVCPRO and AVC-Intra


• Sony PSP


• Apple iPod


• AVCHD*


• …many more

• HEVC/H.265 Video Encoder


• AVC/H.264 Video Encoder


• Fraunhofer AAC Encoder


• MPEG-2 Multiplexer


• MP4 Multiplexer


• MPD Generator


• HLS Generator


• File Sink

Now creators can render project timelines from DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 into professional camera formats from Sony, Panasonic and others.  With the MainConcept Codec Plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio, the complete production chain—from filming, capturing, editing and playout—can remain in the same broadcast format so your workflow remains seamless and efficient.

MainConcept’s Codec Plugin allows native access to HEVC Main and Main 10 profiles, making use of our industry-leading HEVC/H.265 software video encoder. And, it’s fast—up to 20% faster than open source.*

With encoding in up to 8K resolution and 10-bit 4:2:2, our video encoder satisfies the needs of most broadcast and OTT use cases. It also supports AS-11 UK DPP project rendering directly from the DaVinci Resolve Studio timeline management tool.

Ateme+ combines the proven capabilities of Ateme’s award-winning video compression and delivery software suite with the performance and cost flexibility of Software-as-a-Service to deliver accelerated parallel processing with minimum bitrates and high-quality results.

Built with Ateme technology — TITAN — Ateme+ is created to help you achieve a more agile business model. Powered by our award-winning Green Delivery — an energy-efficient end-to-end solution — Ateme+ lets you scale your platform up or down as needed for greater efficiency. With its built-in redundancy and multi-region support, you get the processing when and where you need it, lowering costs, guaranteeing quality of experience, and growing your revenue.

The cloud-agnostic Ateme+ suite is optimized for AWS, with Azure and Google Cloud expected within the year, and supports SD, HD, and UHD resolutions for both live and file transcoding. For Live, it also supports SRT and Zixi for ingress and egress, has a built-in scheduler and rights management layer, and features configurable TAG Multiviewer PiPs and tiles. What’s more, its user-friendly console enables frictionless onboarding, multi-user allocation, and real-time monitoring. You can also use the API to access all services.

Key benefits:l Supports SD, HD and UHD resolutions for both live and file transcodingl Cost-effective SaaS subscription and pay-as-you-go optionsl Easy-to-use console and fully accessible via APIl Cloud-agnostic flexibilityl Guaranteed high-quality, at minimum bitrates

Providing ultra-low latency as well as a front-panel and web-based interface, our KYRION line features the KYRION CM5000e single- or dual-channel encoder and the KYRION DR5000 single-channel, multi-codec decoder.

Based on Ateme’s 6th-generation STREAM compression engine, KYRION CM5000e delivers the highest video quality at minimum bitrates and allows you to start small and add extra features as your requirements grow: SD to HD to UHD, MPEG-2 to H.264 to HEVC.

Designed for contribution over satellite, IP, and ASI networks, it also enables high-quality OTT delivery, with ABR output and integrated Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ).

Extensions such as the DVB-S/S2x modulator or SFP interfaces for SDI over IP with 2110 support can be added, and audio boards for analog or digital inputs can be inserted on two extension slots. In addition, the web-based user interface of KYRION CM5000e provides quick access to configuration menus and immediate settings, ensuring a super-fast boot.

KYRION DR5000 provides easy setup, fast signal lock, and industry-best input robustness as well as a future-proof decoding solutions thanks to the HEVC software upgrade option.

Based on Ateme’s 5th-generation STREAM engine, KYRION DR5000 features ultimate baseband video quality plus high-quality downscaling and de-interlacing.

KYRION DR5000 receives feeds via 4x RF inputs, 2x ASI inputs, and 2x IP inputs and includes descrambling and filtering services for redistribution through its advanced IP output forwarding option. And when used with Ateme’s KYRION CM5000e encoder, it enables an ultra-low latency MPEG/DVB compliant link.

Key benefits:l Best-in-class video qualityl Easy-to-use front panel and and WebGUIl Immediate service with ultra-fast boot and low latencyl SD/HD/UHD HEVC, H.264, MPEG-2 12-bit 4:2:2l BISS-CA decryption system supportl Confidence audio/video input monitoringl Contribution over Internet support

Broadcast TV Services

Our solutions and services for Digital TV, satellite, cable and IPTV allow content providers to monetize their linear and live TV ad breaks. Our solution can easily be scaled to meet the next-generation of targeted advertising solutions that are driving the revolution in today’s television advertising. Manage variable ad block lengths and provides frame-exact switching between ads and (live) TV and improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way.

Regionalization

We are able to offer a one-of-a-kind, integrated ad insertion solution for linear and addressable TV, helping you to create new revenue streams and offer audiences a more personalized viewing experience. Replace content or ads depending on country, region or distributing rights. We also offer a range of transport stream processing products including switching, SCTE signal decoding and programmable delays. By enabling targeted ad insertion, banner and video into linear Over The Air TV stream, we allow broadcasters to combine the best of broadcast and the best of digital advertising to maximize reach.

Transcoding solutions

We offer a powerful advertising cloud transcoding web portal interface, MediaPixel.Media, which has been specifically designed for Ad Sales houses, Production companies, Operators and Broadcasters. It offers flexible workflows for ad delivery, which can be defined and adapted by the customer. It provides multiple delivery methods, and you can choose between automatic or manual ingest using UI.

The platform provides a robust cloud-based service and is able to manage a wide scope of formats from MXF for broadcasters to HLS, MPEG-DASH or mp4 for OTT usage. If you would like to know more about our pricing and services, or if you are a broadcaster or publisher who would like to add your specifications to our platform free of charge, don’t hesitate to contact us - just send us your specification and you’ll be added for free!

IP contribution network

We provide a completely validated end-to-end service. Our private IP contribution network or Internet delivery solution delivers localized linear TV to operators more efficiently and cost effectively.

We have hosted platforms and Head-ends in Leuk, Paris, Brussels and Zurich. Our dedicated and highly experienced team can efficiently execute a project from concept to launch. We can provide a range of regionally specific management solutions and therefore we are able to manage last minute changes, automatic and programmatic replacement of ad bumpers, automatic gap filling and more.

Monitor any number of live OTA and OTT channels from any combination of inputs on browser-based and/or SW application Multiviewers...then use Actus Synchro to drill down and pinpoint where in the video delivery workflow issues are introduced to quickly and efficiently improve your QoS and viewer QoE.

With unlimited configurable layouts and a variety of widgets, unlimited users easily specify the size and position of each channel, with related clock, label, metadata, captions, VU meter, alerts, TS analysis, penalty box and more.

What's more, every channel is being recorded, so you can use Actus Digital's comprehensive suite of tools to research the history of issues and make changes to preempt future issues.

Focused on OTT, AV1 is ideally suited for content delivery to web browsers and mobile devices. MainConcept seamlessly combines AV1 encoding with our proven MPEG-DASH multiplexing and formatting technology to greatly enhance streaming quality. It supports the common MainConcept API and adds useful features unavailable elsewhere.Working with Intel, the SVT framework is integrated into the MainConcept AV1 encoder, allowing it to run efficiently from edge to cloud on multi-core CPUs like Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Xeon D processors.

• Reduce Churn –Better video quality and increased resolutions at the same bitrates drive up Quality-of-Experience and customer satisfaction, increasing viewing times for improved ad-monetisation and significantly reducing subscriber churn


• Increase Reach – Enables stable video delivery at lower bitrates than ever before (as low as 100kbps) – meaning viewers can be reached over the most limited networks


• Reduce Delivery Costs – Storage and CDN delivery costs can be cut by up to 80%

• High audio channels density in a 1U rack: up to 16 stereo AES/EBU channels, or 8 analog stereo channels, or 64 MADI stereo channels*, or 64 AES67 stereo channels*, or 64 AES67 and MADI stereo channels.


• Two hot swappable redundant power supply units


• Two Ethernet RJ-45 ports (separate control and IP audio traffic, or backup network, or redundant dual streaming)


• Additional RJ-45 ports for AES67


• Optional RS232 ports and GPIOs for auxiliary data tunnelling


• Supported formats: PCM, G711, G722, MPEG L2& L3, Opus, Fraunhofer MPEG4-AAC (AAC-LC, AAC-LD, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, AAC-ELD), and optional Qualcomm aptX


• Up to 16 MPX over AES192


• Standard streaming: ACIP RTP, UDP,  Icecast/Shoutcast, MPEG-TS/IP SPTS or MPTS


• Encoding, decoding, and transcoding


• VLANs, QoS, IGMPv3


• WEB and SNMP control, monitoring and alarming

A complete line of five IP audio codecs dedicated not only to mission critical distribution applications such as STL and SSL links, but also to DVB audio and WEB radio. X/LINK codecs are fully adapted to current legacy audio infrastructure and are also ready to support your future full-IP migrations.

The Nextologies fibre network connecting Canada, USA, Eastern Europe and Asia, combined with our fixed satellite network, is the best in our region giving instant access to over 55,000 channels. The Nextologies fibre network is fully protected, geographically diverse and self-healing. Nextologies offers full-time redundant gigabit fibre connectivity to all of the major BDUs in Canada and MSOs in the USA.

Nextologies uses state-of-the-art technology enabling the utmost quality and reliability in broadcast video transmissions. Our network's fibre optic digital circuits are built with redundancy and diverse systems, which minimize latency and jitter characteristics.

BitSave v.2 is the next generation AI technology offered by iSIZE Technologies for fast and low complexity precoding with significant bitrate savings. Available both as a SaaS platform at bitsave.tech and for on- premise use as a “bolt-on” solution on top of any standard or proprietary video codec.

Precode and Encode videos up to 500% faster than other encoding services. Save time and reduce your cloud energy footprint

BitSave technology is compatible with any codec, including AVC, HEVC, VP9, AV1, and even the upcoming AV2 and VVC, with increased gains in bitrate and quality offered for newer standards

Reach ultimate video quality for resolutions up to 8K. Reduce streaming bandwidth by as much as 40%

Less than $5 per hour of content for all resolutions up to 4K – up to 50% cheaper than the most competitive solutions