Edgeware TV CDN Infrastructure

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Adding subtitles to your content – either translating the language of the audio or providing assistance for hard of hearing viewers – is often an important requirement, and these subtitles need to be displayed at the same high quality as your content. Edgeware can now make subtitling easy with our Cavena solutions.

There are many complexities when delivering high quality subtitles to multiple device types and screen sizes. Subtitling is usually two rows of text with a timecode that determines when to display and when to remove the text. But there is an array of different formats and character sets that need to be supported.

Edgeware offers the Cavena-based technology for the highest quality subtitling. Integrated with Edgeware’s Packager and Protection product, the combined solution delivers high quality subtitling across any screen format, to any client and in any character set.

Cavena’s technology delivers high quality subtitles for TV, using Optical Character Recognition to convert subtitles from image to text formats, which provide a much higher quality experience for OTT viewers. The system can also transcode subtitle formats with one subtitle format in, transcoded within milliseconds, and another format sent out.

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

StreamBuilder includes the following products:

• Ingest and Segmentation


• Time-shift TV


• Packager and Protection


• Ad Enabler


• OCR Subtitling

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

Using multiple CDNs offers great possibilities to optimize reach, create redundancy and manage peak traffic. But, the means to control your OTT TV delivery are limited and in the hands of each CDN provider. Information about potential drops in quality of experience (QoE) lands with each CDN provider, leaving limited visibility to you as a content distributor. This greatly reduces your ability to address potential problems and impact the service in real time.

StreamPilot, Edgeware’s multi-CDN control platform with newly-added automation capabilities, solves these problems. It lets you take full control of the OTT TV delivery, fully independent of the delivering CDN. It’s completely client agnostic, which allows you to measure the delivery of every single content segment in real-time.

With its strategic location – sitting in the control plane between the CDN and the client – StreamPilot allows you to proactively and in-session switch or modify the delivery of every single segment from the CDNs to whichever client device your viewers might be using. It measures every segment request made by the client and redirects it to the most optimized CDN.

The addition of its automated optimization capability, referred to as AutoPilot, gives broadcasters and content providers the option to automatically perform actions triggered by StreamPilot’s real-time session data when using a multi-CDN set-up. The AutoPilot feature identifies and automatically presents a unified view of problems that could affect users’ quality of experience, independent of which CDN is delivering the TV service to the viewer.
The issues presented can be related to the device, delivery CDN, ISP or the content itself. The data is processed, grouped and presented with a classification on severity level.

Not only does the AutoPilot feature enable users to react quickly and resolve potential problems, it also identifies problems they cannot resolve, such as ISP-related or other infrastructure-impacting circumstances. This reduces operational costs and allows users to focus on other tasks. Valuable session data around CDN performance and overall QoE provides key insights to help content providers monetize their services, such as creating innovative service offerings and performing A/B testing.

By giving users the unique capability to automatically – or manually – mitigate the problems through actions such as selecting another CDN for the delivery, StreamPilot meets a growing demand from broadcasters and content providers to automatically optimize delivery, rather than presenting the data for them to then analyse and act upon.

StreamPilot is cloud-based and offered as part of the Edgeware Cloud Service.

Publish » Non-Linear Publishing » Non-Linear Publishing Systems » Cable/IPTV VOD servers and systems »

Virtualized and feature-rich HTTP CDN solution for all your streaming use cases – from big live sports events with high traffic peaks to cache-heavy VoD catalogues – deployed on the cloud platform or the COTS machine of your choice!

Capture OTT TV growth, and deliver your TV services with maximum deployment flexibility and QoE-optimized features, with our HTTP solution. Or, maximize your IPTV business with our RTSP solution.

Edgeware’s TV and Video CDN infrastructure delivers your TV content, live or VoD, with the best possible quality and without any buffering or glitches. Deployed in the cloud of your choice or on purpose-built hardware for edge deployments, its optimized storage architecture and intelligent routing policies offer a modern and highly scalable CDN solution.

It takes TV delivery closer to the viewer, meaning content caching and streaming are provided in the edge for the best possible viewing experience.

The solution’s predictive load balancing feature provides a smooth onboarding process for big live events by handling the requests from thousands of viewers who are simultaneously waiting for their live football game or film premiere to start.

Publish » Non-Linear Publishing » Non-Linear Publishing Services » OTT/OVP managed service platforms »

Virtual Channel Creation helps broadcasters and content providers to increase relevance and reach both for their viewers and advertisers by creating regionalized and customized online channels in a cost-efficient manner. The solution has proven especially valuable when adding regional news or weather to national channels or to provide regionalized ad insertion.

Virtual Channel Creation is based on a unique technology where content is stitched together from various sources into a channel. Compared to the needs typically posed by other systems, it does not require the significant investments in production, encoding and storage capacity.

Regional channels are often encoded and stored as full channels, meaning the national content is encoded and stored multiple times – once per regional channel. With Virtual Channel Creation, national content only needs to be stored and encoded once. Regional content can then be stitched into the national channel to create each full regional channel. As a result, encoder and storage needs are reduced. If using cloud-based encoders, the cost savings enabled by this is significant. Similarly, the need for NAS storage, which is required to create Live to VoD content, is reduced.

Virtual Channel Creation also provides an option to use lower bitrate options of the regional content, reducing the encoder and storage need even further. Use cases demonstrate a 95% encoder capacity saving for national channels and an 89% encoder saving for regional channels when using the option to use a lower bitrate variant for the regional channels.

It can also be used to insert public safety messages, as well as efficiently manage restrictions in content distribution rights by inserting replacement segments, programs or providing a blackout solution, even for time-shifted content.

Virtual Channel Creation resides within StreamBuilder, providing broadcasters and content providers with segmentation, packaging and subtitling functionality needed for internet-based distribution.

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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

 

Publish » Non-Linear Publishing » Non-Linear Publishing Systems » Cable/IPTV VOD servers and systems »

Enterprise-class Multiscreen Streaming Telestream Lightspeed Live Stream delivers enterprise-class live streaming for media and entertainment companies, corporations, government agencies and educational facilities. Lightspeed Live Stream provides superior quality and efficiency adaptive bit rate encoding for SD, HD and UHD sources into AVC and HEVC. This integrated hardware and software appliance combines multiple CPU and GPU cores as well as targeted ASIC CODEC acceleration to deliver flexible and efficient encoding performance. Input support is available for SDI as well as IP sources, offering future-proof operation as delivery mechanisms change. Output can be delivered via RTMP to platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, as well as ATS, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG DASH, and CMAF packages and MP4/MP3 files.

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Gallium FACTORY automatically generates sophisticated clips, such as promos, trailers, VOD assets and marketing content, using intelligent graphics templates, information entered by the commissioning producer, and direct access to the asset management system. It automatically creates all versions of a promo or programme clip eliminating unproductive manual work, renders the finished sequences and delivers them to transmission or asset management.

Gallium FACTORY is a scalable, flexible and affordable solution which makes it easy to add high end graphics to non-live content.

Click here to see how ITV, the largest UK commercial broadcast, has used Gallium FACTORY to automated the delivery of hundreds of versions for promotions across its channel portfolio every week

Automate and Publish VOD and Catchup content: Rather than waiting until a program has aired to then take the content and re-purpose it for delivery on other platforms, Gallium FACTORY automates the preparation of content for Live, VOD and Catchup channels all at the same time while preparing it for multi-platform delivery to the consumer.

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Appear’s NEO Series enables software-powered video compression for the delivery of live media experiences. Appear’s software-powered video compression solutions deliver live and file software based video compression for OTT, IPTV and VOD.

Publish » Non-Linear Publishing » Non-Linear Publishing Systems » Cable/IPTV VOD servers and systems »

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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VIPE VOD Publishing solution is an integrated microservice for rich, on-demand file creation and delivery. It is using the same resources, behaviors and architecture as our VIPE linear publishing service.

Our VOD Publishing workflow simplifies on-demand content generation by allowing the same assets, workflow and scheduling system to be used for both linear playout and VOD file creation.

Rendering content faster than real-time, ensures that VOD schedules can be quickly converted to multi format deliverables.

This directly addresses the increased cost and time challenges presented by TV everywhere and catch-up TV initiatives.

Publish » Non-Linear Publishing » Non-Linear Publishing Systems » Cable/IPTV VOD servers and systems »

Virtualized and feature-rich HTTP CDN solution for all your streaming use cases – from big live sports events with high traffic peaks to cache-heavy VoD catalogues – deployed on the cloud platform or the COTS machine of your choice!

Capture OTT TV growth, and deliver your TV services with maximum deployment flexibility and QoE-optimized features, with our HTTP solution. Or, maximize your IPTV business with our RTSP solution.

Edgeware’s TV and Video CDN infrastructure delivers your TV content, live or VoD, with the best possible quality and without any buffering or glitches. Deployed in the cloud of your choice or on purpose-built hardware for edge deployments, its optimized storage architecture and intelligent routing policies offer a modern and highly scalable CDN solution.

It takes TV delivery closer to the viewer, meaning content caching and streaming are provided in the edge for the best possible viewing experience.

The solution’s predictive load balancing feature provides a smooth onboarding process for big live events by handling the requests from thousands of viewers who are simultaneously waiting for their live football game or film premiere to start.

Publish » Non-Linear Publishing » Non-Linear Publishing Systems » Cable/IPTV VOD servers and systems »

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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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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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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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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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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The MediaScaleX // Origin platform enables content service providers to ingest, host, transform, record and distribute video content to any device, at any time, over any network. It uses a common integrated architecture to enable live video streaming, video on demand, catch up TV, restart TV, and cloud DVR services to IP devices and traditional set-top boxes.

Integrated content adaptation for Just-In-Time IP packaging and encryption ensures the content is delivered using adaptive bitrate (ABR) formats and content protection methods (DRM) needed for all end users’ devices.  MediaScaleX // Origin eliminates the time and cost of pre-processing content into multiple formats and DRM encryption schemes.

MediaScaleX // Origin can be deployed on-premise, in a private cloud or in a public cloud.  It can be provided as an appliance with qualified and guaranteed hardware, or as a software-only package for qualified hardware configurations including VM (Virtual Machine) and Container-based environments.

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

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

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