Aperi A1105 1RU Ethernet Switch/Compute Platform

The Aperi A1105 1RU Switch/Compute platform comprises of 10/40 GbE, industry-leading wire-speed switching silicon and five accelerated, pluggable microservers providing unequaled density and integration of low-latency switching and high performance computing.

The consolidation of Ethernet switching fabric and microserver compute elements enables the lowest rack density and power efficiency possible while ensuring optimal reliability for service aggregation in an architecture that scales perfectly for data center and network access low-latency service applications. Depending on applications the microserver hardware acceleration can achieve multiples of compute over traditional x86 processing at a fraction of the consumed power resulting in tens of rack units of servers, associated cabling and switching collapsing into a 1RU A1105. The 10/40GbE switch executes all standard and high performance L2/L3 protocols through the Broadcom Fastpath networking software. The A1105 is Open Flow capable. Integrated network clock synchronization is achieved using PTPv2 or externally fed sync. The A1105 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch offers 6 ports of 10/100/1000BASE-T with 8 ports of wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet via SFP+ cages and 2 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet via QSFP cages. Exceptional reliability and serviceability are ensured with dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies and hot-swappable redundant fans featuring front to back airflow.

Alchemist X

Grass Valley’s Alchemist X sets the standard for frame rate conversion, leveraging advanced motion-compensated technology to deliver smooth, artifact-free video across formats. Designed for high-quality global media distribution, it meets the rigorous demands of live media and broadcast production.

Fully integrated with Grass Valley’s AMPP platform, Alchemist X offers flexible deployment options—on-premises, in a private cloud, or in the public cloud—ensuring adaptability for any production environment.

CRS – Capture & Replay System

High performance capture and replay system. Pcap files up to 20GB. Data rates at 1G/10G/25G/100G. Captures with PTP timestamps. Better than 20ns capture accuracy. Decoder for ST2110, ST2022, RFC4175, ST2059 (PTP), ASPEN, and Sony NMI.

ACE-3901

The Densité® 3+ ACE-3901 from Grass Valley® is a high-density, cost-effective and agile processing platform designed for premium live production. It supports HD, 1080p, 4K UHD and HDR, delivering exceptional image quality and flexibility for modern broadcast workflows.

This platform is a bridge for the hybrid world, consisting of today’s proven SDI technology and the new IP SMPTE ST 2110 connectivity. To meet customers’ needs both now and in the future.

IQ UCP50

The IQUCP50 is a user configurable multi-channel video over IP transceiver developed for use within low latency and high bandwidth Ethernet IP networks. Using RTP VSF TR-03 (SMPTE 2110), TR-04 and SMPTE 2022-6 encoding and encapsulation schemes, along with clause 74 FEC, enables the IQUCP50 to encode or decode up to 16 SDI signals and transport them over redundant 50GbE links (SMPTE 2022-7) with either dual or single port options. To enable hardware processing flexibility IQUCP50 has a variety of Software Defined Cores (SDCs) available that can be purchased and loaded as operational needs demand. SDCs can be installed via a licensing mechanism and include; essence processing for SDI to IP gateway type applications, signal monitoring for multi-viewer style applications, network processing for IP transcoding and NAT firewall applications, and signal processing for broadcast quality conversion and processing requirements. With it’s essence processing SDC IQUCP50 provides frame synchronized SDI outputs along with both uncompressed and compressed (using SMPTE-2042 – VC2) modes of IP operation. Encapsulation of signals in a SMPTE 2022-6 transport stream is also catered for. IQUCP50 is fully compatible with GV’s new broadcast centric IP routing and network management solution designed to migrate Broadcasters from a traditional baseband routing and control environment to new Hybrid SDI and IP workflows.

MultiRights OTT Plus

As the OTT video market matures, basic DRM technology is no longer sufficient to enable the compelling services consumers are willing to pay for while complying with stricter security requirements mandated by premium content providers, such as 4K/UHD programming. Furthermore, delivering a multi-screen service consistently, reliably and securely to the growing list of devices and operating systems is a formidable undertaking. While DRM security serves to protect the content, advanced analytics are also increasingly essential to ensure competitiveness and maximize monetization opportunities.

MultiRights™ OTT Plus is Verimatrix’s response to the evolving needs of the OTT video market. As the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, Verimatrix developed MultiRights OTT Plus to allow operators and content owners to more effectively and efficiently control the brand experience of their premium services across devices. The solution optimizes content monetization through a sophisticated package of integrated security and analytics components. Offered on a subscription basis with cloud-based or physical deployment options, MultiRights OTT Plus addresses the multi-DRM quandary and native device DRM limitations, plus offers powerful delivery and analytics tools in a flexible, cost-effective package.

The components that make up MultiRights OTT Plus include:
~ MultiRights OTT, supporting all widely utilized DRMs and client device categories
~ VideoMark® and StreamMark™ forensic watermarking solutions, offering a range of anti-piracy tools to secure and monetize premium content services and delivery methods
~ Verspective Operator Analytics video services optimization and monetization platform, offering a way to emphasize data security and integrity as a foundation for actionable intelligence
~ Downloadable ViewRight™ Secure Player, supporting advanced video services features with all common pay-TV service models (such as linear, on-demand, and download-to-go)

The package offers optional connectivity to the Verimatrix Verspective™ Intelligence Center, featuring a set of cloud-based services including crucial anti-piracy alerting, VCAS system health and performance monitoring
MultiRights OTT Plus can also be leveraged to enable secure hierarchical distribution from origination at the content owner to viewer playback and reporting in a federated rights management (FRM) approach. This component is a security umbrella, applying proven Verimatrix security and key/rights management to multi-tiered online video distribution.

Providing end-to-end protection for valuable video content has often required repeated content decryption and re-encryption along the path to the viewer device. Both complex and costly, this also opens up windows for mismanagement and content theft at each intermediate point. Implementing an FRM model through MultiRights OTT Plus reduces OTT distribution complexity by offering a single point of integration, so operators and content providers can “encrypt once, decrypt once.”

Ultimately, MultiRights OTT Plus offers consumers a completely transparent subscriber experience in an evolving multi-screen and multi-DRM world. Thanks to the advanced analytics tools, operators and content owners can maximize content monetization and stay abreast of evolving consumer preferences. By leveraging this solution, operators can deploy multi-screen services with confidence and the assurance that their OTT monetization platform will adopt to changes in security regimes while continuously enhancing the user experience.

StreamMark

As operators and content producers alike continue to raise security standards in the battle against unauthorized redistribution, there has been a piqued interest in watermarking as a deterrent. Watermarking, particularly for streaming home entertainment, is becoming more and more prevalent- with the advent of UHD and early release window (ERW) content. As theft of premium content continues to surge, StreamMark from Verimatrix offers a highly-efficient, powerful solution for ensuring that pay-TV operators are protected.

Verimatrix developed the server-side watermarking capabilities of its StreamMark™ solution to support content delivered via HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and standard DASH adaptive bitrate (ABR) formats to enable ERW and other premium content business models. Server-side watermarking is an important alternative to client-side embedding since it does not require any integration with, or modification to, the client devices.

StreamMark supports a highly efficient process to embed robust, secure and imperceptible watermarks in digital content before delivery to each client device. The standalone solution is inherently DRM-agnostic and integrates with leading encoder and CDN components to protect unicast over-the-top (OTT) delivery by uniquely marking compressed video files, even if they are encrypted. It protects valuable content against real-time re-broadcasting threats and subscription fraud by enabling a flashing mark that is inconspicuous, yet quick to read and recognize. StreamMark can easily be integrated into today’s distribution networks using existing encoding and encryption workflows, processing power and storage.

The solution extends new revenue opportunities to pay-TV operators by expediting access to premium content for ERW on-demand services, the timing of which runs alongside the theatrical release. Studios offering ERW and UHD/4K content require video watermarking as a security measure.

Verimatrix has spent more than a decade developing a comprehensive technical approach to forensic watermarking backed by an unmatched partner ecosystem. The company has been working closely with the studios for several years to offer a proven ERW and UHD/4K video solution that satisfies MovieLabs’ specification for Enhanced Content Protection. StreamMark also complements the issuance of updated watermarking security guidelines from the Ultra HD Forum where Verimatrix played a leading role.

StreamMark works in conjunction with the cloud-based StreamMark Reveal™ Service, which analyzes video for potential watermarks. Once found, the service extracts the embedded payload, thus delivering convenience for StreamMark customers and confidence against arbitrary verification. These linked products allow pay-TV companies to trace illicit copies of online digital content back to the source and ensure full protection to their subscribers.

As a part of Verimatrix’s all-inclusive offerings, StreamMark joins the company’s flagship user-specific forensic watermarking solution, VideoMark, which uses a client-side watermarking technique to provide real-time, session-based video traceability as an alternative that limits integration on the client side. Through the proven VideoMark and StreamMark offerings, Verimatrix equips video service providers with a range of more flexible anti-piracy tools and deployment options that they need to secure and monetize today’s premium content services and the latest delivery methods.

Verspective Analytics

The brand-new Verspective Intelligence solution marks significant enhancements for video service providers to maximize their network performance and optimize subscriber experience in order to further monetize their services.
Video analytics tools are essential to the decision-making capability of various departments of a video service provider. Operations and Engineering teams need real-time analytics tools to analyze Quality of Service (QoS) and viewers’ Quality of Experience (QoE), to detect and correct inefficiencies and, ultimately, reduce operational costs. Business users can leverage historical data to better understand content consumption and viewing behavior, identify opportunities to increase viewer engagement and revenue, optimize ad slot pricing, and reduce costly subscriber churn.
However, the challenge faced by today’s video service providers is that they are currently using problem-specific analytics tools that create disparate data silos. More often than not, they are sitting on terabytes of data stored in silos scattered across the organization. For example, they might be using website analytics to get an aggregate view of their traffic, a QoE tool to measure the subscriber\’s perception of the service, a QoS tool to measure performance of the delivery platform, and a BI tool as a way to connect these multiple sources. Furthermore, there is no clear connection on how to develop insights into specific data-driven actions that improve the business.
To maximize the power of this data, service providers need a solution that can collect, aggregate and analyze it in the most secure fashion while complying with mandated and self-directed privacy practices. In short, they need to unlock actionable business intelligence.
Leveraging robust and secure data aggregation methods, Verspective Intelligence enables service providers to be better informed by providing a data environment for collaboration. It collects and presents data from a variety of systems including set-top boxes (IPTV and DVB-IP hybrid), all kinds of OTT devices, video on-demand (VOD) servers and content delivery networks (CDN), DRMs including Verimatrix VCAS™ and data enrichment sources, such as program schedules and metadata. It then normalizes the feed from such various subscriber data sources to provide a 360-degree view across different network and device types.
Verspective Intelligence bridges organizational silos, aggregating all gathered data into a secure cloud-based data lake while granting controlled and role-based access to each department, where roles can be individually credentialed. Users can also build and modify visualizations to answer QoE and QoS questions as they arise.
Verspective Intelligence allows for a more precise method of segmenting the subscriber audience based on how they engage with the service. Service providers are able to more effectively address potential problems and uncover upsell opportunities in order to reduce churn and increase ARPU with powerful off-the-shelf and customizable reporting tools. The solution also accurately collates content usage and consumption analytics data from downstream operator sites, which offers a level of unprecedented visibility for content owners.
Off-the-shelf dashboards and visualization tools offer historical reporting that can be drilled into audiences, content, consumption, and overall service performance. The intelligence and dashboard portal provides an enhanced visualization engine with expanded customizable reporting tools that can analyze audience engagement, acquisition, retention, content performance and consumption behavior analysis – to name a few.

EXECUTOR™ Production AIrBox

EXECUTOR™ Production AIrBox provides content playout for News, Live shows, Studio screens and video walls, live production broadcasts and other places where video/audio content have to be displayed. It is designed to meet the high reliability requirements of broadcast playout.
For live productions, any changes to the playlist during on-air session are possible! There are no locked clips. Every clip in the playlist can be trimmed or repositioned. Moreover, playout position can be changed on-the-fly with commands like next, jump or shuttle. Such changes are performed seamlessly without stopping current playout session.
One server can be configured with up to four independent players. Each player has separate playlist and playout control. All four SDI interfaces can be assigned as program or preview outputs. Single channel or Multichannel user interfaces are available to streamline the operation.

MISTV MIRA

With more than 25 years of experience in the business, MISTV® MIRA is our brand-new generation of integrated solutions built to meet today’s complex demands and needs for the operational administration of your TV station and/or advertising sales house. Our system will lead you to the maximization of your revenue and minimization of the operational costs.   MISTV® MIRA is strongly focused on automatization and optimization of all processes in the TV business, offering a fully customizable environment according to the client’s needs, powered by Microsoft® .NET Framework and Oracle® RDBMS. It is a user friendly, scalable, efficient, and powerful tool for the administration of your media business.

Advertising sales and traffic

  • Multiplatform Inventory – TV, online, OTD
  • Pricelists, Coefficients, Discounts, Bonuses, Variable price modifications per client
  • CRM, Budgeting, Contracts, Invoicing, Ratings, Campaigns fulfillment evaluation

Programme planning

  • Multi & cross channel/network planning, Linear and non-linear (VOD) broadcasting
  • Automated changes and series planning
  • Content-needs planning and schedule cost analytics

Scheduling

  • Daily plans, Playlist, Post transmission log (As-run log)
  • Breaks, Jingles and Secondary events
  • Automatic scheduling and Alternative schedules

Title & Content library

  • Titles-Programs, Films, Series & Episodes
  • Title description and categorization, Metadata and MAM integration
  • Media management, Shipping, Clip versions, Formats, TCs and Breaks

Rights management

  • Acquired rights and Own production
  • License contracts and conditions, Runs, Costs, Payments
  • Amortizations and Impairments, Dubbing, Used music / Royalties

Automatic booking

  • Advertising sales campaigns and ON-AIR self-promotion campaigns
  • Optimization of delivery and inventory use
  • Adjustable booking targets and conditions

Self-Promotion (OAP)

  • Promo library and production requests
  • Scheduling rules and conditions, Promotion campaigns management
  • Promo inventory views and booking

Reporting, Interfaces and Jobs

  • Playout, Research, Finance and Production, MAM, VOD, WWW, EPG, OTT, CGI
  • RESTful API, FTP, DB views, XLS, XML, Printed
  • Server based scheduled jobs, DB links

Professional service

  • Helpdesk, Ticketing system, 24/7/365 technical support
  • Fast and flexible on demand customizations
  • User training and Consulting services

MIS is a long-established, leading player

on the international market providing complex solutions for advertising sales, rights, content and broadcast management. The company, with headquarters in Prague, has been specializing in the development of software solutions for TV broadcasters since it was established in 1995. Using innovative technologies and an exceptionally client orientated approach with outstanding flexibility, it is a partner you can rely on.

Currently, we are delivering for over 35 clients and more than 1000 users in countries across Europe, America, and Africa.  Our software solutions ensure easy to manage and uninterrupted broadcasting of hundreds of TV channels and networks. Our clients range from big TV stations (networks) running tens of channels with national coverage to smaller regional single channel TVs. The software is designed with flexibility in mind, so that without changes in structure, it can manage TV station of any size, complexity, and specificity of individual requirements. This is thanks to its extensive functionality across all areas that a broadcasting company may need, coupled with custom made configurations and settings. We offer the market a comprehensive All-in-one solution, with the precision and professional standards of the best of breed approach, delivered with our modular approach.

Your media business under full control