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

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

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

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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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Nora

Future-Proofed OTT Middleware

Nora 3.0 middleware has been purpose-built to empower operators with unparalleled flexibility to manage, distribute and monetize their video service.

Nora encapsulates a comprehensive suite of features designed to elevate the OTT experience for operators and viewers alike, ensuring a future-proof, seamless and enriched content delivery.

• Live & VOD Delivery

Bring a variety of Live and VOD content to your audiences, offering them the convenience of catch-up and live rewind, while ensuring seamless and consistent streaming experiences across multiple platforms and devices.

• Content Management

Boost content discovery by arranging videos into categories and content sets. Create content add-ons to drive revenue.

• Flexible Monetization Models

Maximize revenues through hybrid combinations of SVOD, AVOD, TVOD (incl. PPV) and FAST models, catering to diverse market dynamics in different territories simultaneously.

• Streaming URL Policy

Configure rules for content URLs depending on browsers, OS, OS versions, platforms, and devices used.

• Multi-Tenant

A multi-tenant model supports hosting multiple tenants inside one environment and reusing core application functionality while each tenant is isolated and invisible to others. This feature eliminates the need to deploy and maintain multiple provider instances, thus reducing costs for development and infrastructure

• User-Friendly Dark Theme UI

Nora 3.0 unveils a user-friendly dark theme UI, which modernizes the user experience and prioritizes visual comfort and readability.

• Content Protection

Combat piracy with DRM management, content geoblocking, and ACL-based geoblocking.

• External API

Four types of integrations are available: via base, message brokers, files, and restful API. Enhance existing functionality by integrating with third-party services and features, adapting to changing business needs.

• Device Management

Control content distribution by setting the number of devices that viewers can use to access your platform. Remove devices or assign them to subscribers as the business requires.

• Customization

Customize client applications with your brand assets. Promote and highlight content through banners and featured carousels.

• Notifications

Schedule and configure push notifications to keep users engaged and returning. Create announcements with updates and promotional messages. Remind subscribers of impending subscription expirations.

• Shopping Cart & Subscriber Portal

A shopping cart is a payment orchestration system that allows users to browse, select, and purchase multiple items and accessories in one transaction. Operators can configure the shopping cart and portal view for business needs, set loyalty programs, manage monetization, and set up payment options.

• Microservice Architecture

A collection of independently deployable services provides scalability, flexibility, and resilience to operators, bypassing the limitations of monolithic architecture.

• Cloud-Based or On Premise Deployment

Strategically deploy the infrastructure based on business requirements. Opt for a cloud-based solution for cost-effectiveness and flexibility, or select an on-premise infrastructure for more control and security.

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Embracing the shift to media workflow virtualization, and enabling hardware acceleration of software video processing algorithms, Alveo U30 adaptable accelerator cards provide an ideal platform for development and deployment of a wide range of streaming applications.

The Alveo U30 media accelerator card provides the industry’s highest channel density, lowest cost per channel, and lowest power consumption for live video streaming workloads. When coupled with Video Software Developers Kit (SDK) from AMD the solution provides a production-ready platform for live streaming providers to benefit from AMD hardware acceleration with standards-based FFmpeg, GStreamer and APIs.

The U30 is available for live video transcoding in the cloud over Amazon EC2 VT1 instances or as a preconfigured appliance for on-premises deployment from our partners.

High Channel-Density at Low Latency

• Accelerate the entire video pipeline to optimize for cost-per-stream at transcode latencies as low as 8ms

Optimal Video Quality at Reduced Bandwidth

• High compression efficiency and ABR scaling lowers bandwidth cost with optimal video quality

Cost-Effectively Scale Interactive Media Applications

• Scale to more users and content creators by maximizing streams per server and controlling bandwidth and power expenses

 

Alveo U30 Features

• Small footprint – half-height, half-length


• Low power ~18-25W typical


• High density media processing: 112 x 1080p30 transcodes in real-time on a single appliance populated with 7 x Alveo U30 accelerators


• HEVC (H.265), H.264 (AVC) & Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) Scaling


• Supports video resolutions from 128x128 to 3840x2160


• Simultaneous decoding, scaling and encoding of up to 46 streams with max aggregated bandwidth of 2X4Kp60 per card


• Faster-than-Real-Time (FTRT) feature enables a 60 minute 1080p60 quality video to be transcoded in 20 minutes on a single U30 accelerator


• Xilinx Resource Manager (XRM) enables multiple video processing jobs to run across multiple Alveo U30 cards for seamless workload scaling Seamless FFmpeg, GStreamer and API integration

 

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Global content delivery network optimized for video and live streams. Includes edge caching, request collapsing, GZIP compression, DDoS mitigation, TLS encryption, and real-time log streaming. Supports HLS, MPEG-DASH, and CMAF delivery with standardized per-GB pricing at $0.017/GB across all regions.

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Full suite of video processing capabilities available through the same API used for transcoding. Includes per-title encoding, smart adaptive bitrate ladders, audio normalization, video clipping, thumbnail generation at specific times or intervals, GIF creation, watermarking, DRM and AES encryption, and output to HLS, MPEG-DASH, MP4, and WebM.

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Cloud live streaming API for launching streams at scale. Supports RTMP, WebRTC, and SRT input with output to HLS, CMAF, and DASH. Simulcast to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and LinkedIn from a single stream. Includes stream recording, reusable stream keys, real-time performance monitoring, and adaptive bitrate delivery.

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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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Cloud video transcoding API with AI-powered per-title encoding that reduces file sizes by up to 60% without quality loss. Supports H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1, and LCEVC at resolutions up to 16K. Integrated DRM, automated subtitles with translation, and output to cloud storage. Multi-resolution ladder generation, video clipping, audio extraction, and thumbnail creation run as part of the same transcoding job.

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Etere empowers you to seamlessly export your content to OTT platforms, ensuring compliance with contract terms and meeting precise media formatting standards.

Deliver Targeted Commercials to Enhance Your Content Monetization StrategyWhile OTT opens up a world of on-demand entertainment for viewers, it also introduces personalized advertising streams designed to increase customer retention and conversion opportunities. With Etere OTT Delivery, you can target your advertisements according to viewers' profiles, including having different advertisements for a single content. It allows operators to coordinate all playlists and urgent requests before playout. Furthermore, the rich metadata structure enables viewers to discover content quickly.Supports Widevine and PlayReady Protection SchemeWidevine: Widevine supports the use of standards-based, royalty-free solutions for encryption, adaptive streaming, transport, and player software without licensing feesPlayReady: PlayReady helps secure encrypted content by distributing and controlling content encryption keys over networks and clients. With this technology, content owners and services distributing high-valued content can monetize their content with complete control over their business modelSupports HLS and DASH Streaming ProtocolsEtere supports delivery optimized for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), one of the most commonly used streaming formats for live videos. HLS also plays videos encoded with the H.264 and H.265 codecs. Moreover, Etere supports MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP), a standard for adaptive streaming over HTTP.MPEG Dash Files and ManifestEtere automatically generates MPEG Dash Files and Manifest. Dash manifest breaks all the content of a file into a sequence of small segments served over HTTP. It contains all the information necessary to download and present content.Electronic Programming Guides (EPG)

■Streamlines the management of your image library with a public URL reference

■Images will be placed and deleted according to the scheduled data

■Keeps system updated at all times

■Centralize your content

■Maximizes your Return on Investment (ROI)Content Delivery Workflows

■Automated workflows check the OTT contract to prepare content for delivery

■Verification checks include contract validity and countries allowed for delivery

■Images (Background, poster & thumbnail) related to the Series are automatically retrieved for the trailer

■If there are subtitles linked to the asset, automated workflows will extract them into a.vtt file

■Check and verify audio tracks linked to the asset

■If it has a Trailer, the workflow will manage metafile from the trailer in the same way it manages metafile from the assetWeb and PC InterfacesEtere supports both web and PC platforms that efficiently manage the licensee, contract expiry, and payment management of your non-linear content from any location. The web interface is available from any web browser; all that you need is an internet connection.Managing Encryption and Digital Rights Management (DRM)Etere supports Digital Rights Management (DRM) which prevents unauthorized use and piracy of content, a prerequisite for many streaming platforms. DRM works by encrypting the content so that it cannot be read without a decryption key provided by a third party DRM platform that includes license servers. When a user tries to play a video, the video player requests a key from a license server. The server determines whether the user and device are authorized, before issuing a license response with a decryption key. The player can then decrypt and playback the content for the user. Etere features full compatibility with all the major DRM systems in the market, including Google, Apple and Mircosoft.Automated and Customizable End-to-End Content Workflow ManagementFrom ingestion to enrichment and distribution, Etere manages all your OTT workflows effectively. With the integrated Etere Resource Manager, you can generate orders, track tasks, monitor expenses and resources without switching screens. What makes the results so effective is the real-time updates, which allow task statuses and processes to be reflected in real-time. For example, ingest tasks can be assigned by workflow or manually. Once an operator takes up an assigned task, the task is no longer available to others. Furthermore, Etere integrates seamlessly with Active Directory to manage user authentication across multiple departments with cross-functions. Each user can be assigned a unique profile with rights assigned according to their stations and functions.Protects your Content with EncryptionEtere integrates the automatic encryption of files before delivery to OTT platforms. This prevents unauthorized access including piracy, hacking and cyber attacks, which can compromise the revenue strategies of OTT platforms. File encryption masks data so that only authorized users can decrypt and access the file. Different keys are used to allow different class of services including SD, HD and 4K.

Key Features

Etere OTT module enables content providers to manage the distribution of their OTT content over various media platforms. Key features include

• Facilitates order compilation and multi-change capabilities


• OTT Ad Insertion: Creates multiple sub-playlists 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 licensing rights agreement that determines the platforms through which the delivered content can be transmitted through the diffusion of rights


• Real-time payment tracking of delivered content


• "To Do 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


• Specify all delivery conditions such as a licensee, platform, metadata, asset(s), and workflow for execution

Supported Media Formats and Codecs:

• ISO-BMFF / MP4


• H264 (AVC)


• H265 (HEVC)


• VP8 - experimental


• VP9 - experimental


• AAC


• Dolby AC3 / EAC3


• DTS


• Opus – experimental

WebM:

• VP8


• VP9


• Opus


• Vorbis

MPEG2-TS:

• H264 (AVC)


• H265 (HEVC)


• AAC

WVM

• H264 (AVC)


• AAC

Metadata for OTT Interface

Etere's metadata framework unleashes the complete potential for asset discovery, repurposing, sharing, and distribution. It seamlessly integrates crucial metadata like loudness, duration, format version, stream size, and format, empowering users to include adaptable metadata. Through its integrated tools for managing metadata enrichment, Etere grants the flexibility to customize the content discovery process to individual requirements, delivering unparalleled flexibility and customization.

Integrated Reports

• Customisable reports builder


• Generates reports providing essential insights into account management


• Generates audience reports on demand

Integrated Reports

Etere offers OTT and live streaming management services on a single software. Etere's all-in-one features allow you to launch media to streaming and OTT platforms faster and with fewer resources. With Etere's centralized database, you can easily manage updates across different departments with a single interface. Etere's distributed architecture ensures a reliable streaming infrastructure, an essential factor for live streaming. Etere provides the software tools to help you to package, monetize, and deliver your content to get it in front of audiences of any size, all over the world, on any screen.

For more information, please visit www.etere.com

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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.

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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.

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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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Agile Streambuilder

Streambuilder facilitates the preparation of live and VoD content for OTT distribution to any device.

Thanks to its industry-leading reliability and performance, Streambuilder is at the heart of some of the world's biggest and most requiring streaming services.

The Agile Streambuilder product bundle provides accurate segmentation of streams, optimized content storage for on-demand and time-shift services, and just-in-time ABR packaging for OTT streaming (HLS, DASH, MSS), including encryption.

Streambuilder is more than an “Origin Server”, as it can also include Virtual Channel Creation, removing the need to have to re-encode the same content over and over.

Agile Subtitling

The Cavena transcoding of subtitles provides a simple and quick way to prepare subtitles for OTT delivery.

Add subtitles to your content, either translating the language of the audio or providing assistance for viewers with hearing loss.

This is currently an important requirement, and these subtitles must be displayed at the same high standards as your content.

OCR Subtitles, Subtitle Conversion, Transcoding and much more can easily be made with our Cavena solutions.

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Agile CDN Manager

Agile CDN, by Edgeware, is the next-generation CDN that uses the Agile CDN Director & Management functionalities for orchestrating and managing caches.

Agile CDN Director

At the center of a CDN sits the logic that manages session setup and load balances traffic across the CDN, optimizing network utilization and user experience.

The Agile Directorauthorizes sessionsto prevent unauthorized access and assigns the session to the optimal cache based on network topology, content popularity, user location, and current load and capacity in the CDN.

This ensures thatonly authorized users receive the best possible experiencewhile network utilization is optimized.

Agile Cache

Agile Cache is a cache software that can be deployed on any COTS platform or as a docker in a virtualized deployment. It implements the basic caching functionality and interfaces required for management and configuration, including clustering of servers, and back-end load balancing for cache-fill.

Agile Cache is designed to provide the best possible performance out of the platform deployed on, rather than having strict requirements of specification to guarantee a certain performance.

Agile Appliance

The Agile Appliances are using the proven Edgeware server hardware purpose-built for TV delivery. They are designed to efficiently combine different TV services and protocols on a single appliance.

How we can help you

01 | Optimal infrastructure utilization of permanent caches and virtualized resources.

02 | Combine Private and Public CDN in one management solution.

03 | One control layer for managing distribution rights and policies when using multiple CDNs.

04 | Evolve your TV proposition and increase customer value without having to change set-top boxes.

05 | Plug-and-play, no need for time-consuming installations and upgrades.

 

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Agile TV CMS

Agile TV CMS is a comprehensive platform that enables organizations to manage and distribute digital media content across multiple devices and channels.

It offers intuitive content management tools that allow organizations to upload, edit, organize, and publish videos and other media assets with ease.

With a highly scalable infrastructure, customization options, and support for multiple platforms, Agile CMS is an all-in-one solution for businesses looking to transform their content strategy and enhance their digital media presence.

Agile Media Workflow Manager

A highly customizable workflow processing solution for digital media, specialized in video and audio content for on-demand streaming, which integrates with multiple third-party service providers and software.

Agile Content’s Media Workflow Manager offers a comprehensive set of steps, including Pre-Processing, Download, Post-Download, Encoding, Post-Encoding, Repackaging/DRM, Post-Repackaging/DRM, Upload, Post-Processing, Cleanup, and Post-Cleanup.

These new intermediate steps can include any number of actions and can be processed sequentially or in parallel by any number of custom agents.

Key BenefitsDefault & custom steps

• Unlimited sequential & parallel action processing


• Encoding support: AWS Elemental MediaConvert, Ateme Titan, FFMEG and more


• Universal DRM (Play Ready, Widevine & Fair Play)


• Integration with third-party services


• API can be integrated into custom UI or Agile CMS

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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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NEA Live records, packages, and streams live and near-live content to any connected consumer or operator device, according to distribution policy — and supports low latency.

NEA Live performs Just-in-Time packaging in order to reduce the required storage and lower bandwidth costs. Integrated with all major DRM solutions, it supports multiple streaming, subtit-ling, and audio formats. It also performs chunk sharing to optimize caching efficiency.

Live TV and time-shift services can be up and run-ning in just a few hours, ensuring the best multiscreen experience for your content subscribers.

NEA Live provides access to live channels and allows subscribers to pause and restart a session. It also continuously buffers each current live program to offer start-over capabilities within a four-hour time frame.

Widely deployed in over 100 countries, NEA Live is integrated with multiple CDNs to dynamically deliver live content adapted to the capacity of any network.

Ateme defines a set of hardware recommendations for a complete, pre-integrated, best-in-class solution for the delivery of video to a wide range of managed and unmanaged devices.

Applications

• Live TV on multiscreen


• Time-shift/Pause TV/Start-over

Features and Benefits

• Low-latency live streaming


• Fast multiscreen service deployment for live channel delivery over HTTP or HTTPS


• Just-in-Time packaging and filtering of audio, video, and subtitles


• Interoperable with any encoder in the industry thanks to MPEG-2 TS inputs and CMAF Ingest


• Protects content thanks to DRM and watermarking


• Single node or 1+1 redundancy through Virtual IP


• SCTE-35 Splice management with standard manifest conditioning or ESAM-based custom conditioning for Dynamic Ad Insertion

Download the datasheet: https://www.ateme.com/product-video-content-delivery/#resources

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Accedo One: The no-code SaaS platform for perfectly branded, white label OTT applications. Deliver top-tier content to customers across a multitude of supported platforms, while Accedo handles all technical aspects – freeing you to focus on an exceptional user experience.Manage all the integrations and configurations for branding, colors, features, and analytics from one convenient place. Accedo One is an award-winning no-code SaaS platform for video service providers of all shapes and sizes. Launch your first service in a matter of days or migrate an existing offering to reduce your total cost of ownership.

It enables the simplified creation, delivery, and management of multi-screen OTT apps and includes:

• Customizable UX templates,


• Intuitive WYSIWYG editor,


• Powerful service analytics.

More information: https://www.accedo.one/

 

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Accedo Android TV Launcher is a premium solution to replace the standard Android TV Operator Tier launcher with an engaging set-top box experience uniquely tailored to your brand. It is ideal for Pay TV operators with high demands on customization and superior user experiences, without compromising on the flexibility of integrations and a rapid time to market.

Upgrade the default Android TV Launcher with a premium set-top box interface that is uniquely tailored to your brand. Google and Netflix pre-certifications will get you to market fast while a SOC & OEM agnostic set-up allows you to reuse existing back-office components as required.

 

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Expand the reach of your service and find new ways to engage your customers by creating your own uniquely branded metaverse. Your brand becomes a social hub where viewers are turned into visitors, interacting with the content through games, and other immersive experiences.

 

• Engage users on a new level


• Unlock new revenue streams


• Enable shared experiences

 

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Purpose-built for real-time, high-volume streaming, the Alveo MA35D media accelerator is enabling a new era of interactive media services, including live events, e-learning, social streaming, live shopping, sports betting, cloud gaming, and more. Supporting both next-generation AV1 standard and mainstream H.264 and H.265 codecs1, the card delivers ultra-low latency at optimal video quality (VQ) for creating immersive experiences. Infrastructure operators, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), content providers, and streaming platform vendors can leverage the Alveo MA35D media accelerator to maximize channel density, power efficiency, and bandwidth efficiency to cost-effectively scale their live streaming services.

High-Density, Low-Latency Streaming

The Alveo MA35D media accelerator allows streaming providers to maximize the number of low-latency streams per card, per rack, and per data center–which can help reducing both CAPEX and OPEX. The card provides

• High channel density at up to 32x 1080p60


• Ultra-low latency at 8ms for 4K encode


• 1 Watt per stream (1080p60) to help reduce power and cooling costs

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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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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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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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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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Spectar+ by More Screens is a comprehensive Multi-Screen Video Service Delivery Platform. It facilitates seamless delivery of video services across multiple devices including PCs, smartphones, tablets, devices, and smart TVs. Key features include rapid deployment, advanced analytics, robust CDN integration, multi-DRM support, and customizable end-user applications. With Spectar+, service and content providers can efficiently manage and monetize Linear TV and VOD assets, offering unparalleled user experiences. Its flexible deployment options, including on-premises and cloud-based SaaS, ensure streamlined operations and enhanced scalability.

Spectar+ also excels in delivering cutting-edge security features to protect your valuable content. Leveraging industry-standard encryption protocols and multi-DRM support, the platform ensures that video assets are safeguarded against unauthorized access and piracy. This not only protects intellectual property but also maintains the integrity of the brand.

Moreover, Spectar+ offers an intuitive dashboard that enables comprehensive monitoring and management of video delivery services. With advanced analytics at your fingertips, you can gain insights into viewer behavior, content performance, and system efficiency. This data-driven approach allows for informed decision-making, optimizing the overall service delivery and enhancing user satisfaction.

Incorporating Spectar+ into your service lineup means you benefit from a future-proof platform designed to adapt to evolving market demands. With regular updates and innovations, Spectar+ continues to set the standard in video service delivery, ensuring that your offerings remain competitive and cutting-edge. Achieve operational excellence and superior viewer engagement with Spectar+.

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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.

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

With the Spectar+, we are proud to offer the next generation battle-tested Multi-Screen Video Service Delivery Platform that enables centralised service management, distribution and monetisation of Linear TV and VOD assets on multiple platforms and devices, over public or managed networks.

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Cloud Hotel TV is new television service designed for the hotel sector, capable of being integrated with hotels’ management applications. This new solution makes it possible to present personalised content to guests and implement digital marketing strategies during their stay.

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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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Brightcove Audience Insights provides deep insights into your viewers, with metrics on subscribers, registered users, and general users to help you run your business effectively.

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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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Video captures attention at every stage of the customer journey. With Brightcove Marketing Studio, you can drive awareness with videos on your website, social media accounts, and e-commerce pages. And you can create branded video destinations that draw audiences to your digital properties. Personalize with interactive elements, curate a library of playlists and on-demand videos, or host live streams to advance your business video strategy. Wherever you want to go, we have the video streaming technology, services, and support to take you there.

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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.

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.

Publish » Content Protection » Content Protection & Encryption » CAS, encryption, DRM »

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.

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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.

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.

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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 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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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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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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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.