In Broadcast - April 2017 - 14

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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 4 | April 2017

InNews
Imagine Empowers
Playout For ADM

UAE: Imagine Communications
has successfully implemented
a business continuity playout
site, with full premium channel
functionality, for Abu Dhabi Media
(ADM).
The disaster recovery solution uses
Imagine Communications' playout,
automation and other software
products running on du's Media
Cloud platform. du is one of the
leading ICT service providers in the
United Arab Emirates.
ADM is to revitalise its premisesbased playout operations to match
the performance and flexibility of
the new cloud-based facilities.

Artel Introduces
ATSC 3.0 Solutions

USA: Artel Video Systems has
introduced ATSC 3.0 Transition
Over Fiber and ATSC 3.0 Transition
Over IP solutions.
Artel's InfinityLink ATSC 3.0
Transition Solutions enable nextgeneration, over-the-air broadcast
and content delivery for the new
IP-based ATSC 3.0 standard, while
retaining legacy signal transport
capabilities for ATSC 1.0.
The solutions include all necessary
platform components and optical
and/or electrical transceivers,
ready for interconnection with
either customer-furnished, singlemode fibre or a local, carriersupplied IP GigE service.

Shortened Odds
On OTT Delays

SWE / GBR: Net Insight is
collaborating with bet365 and
SIS to solve the long and variable
delay issues associated with live
streaming of OTT betting content.
The parties have integrated
Net Insight's ultra-low delay
solution, Sye in the bet365 app
and successfully demonstrated the
low-delay performance across SIS's
betting CDN service, based on Sye.
The joint effort demonstrates a
"holistic" approach to meeting
the challenges that currently exist
for live OTT services in the betting
market.

Imagine Debuts Software
Selenio One XC
I

magine
Communications
has
introduced Selenio One XC, a
software-only addition to the company's
next-generation
multipurpose
compression platform, which offers
media companies a
single platform for
performing a range of
encoding, transcoding
and related processing
operations.
Selenio
One
XC,
optimised
for
both
primary and secondary
distribution, enables content
owners and video service providers
to improve operational efficiencies by
delivering more channels over existing
distribution infrastructures.
"With the introduction of XC, the
newest offering from the Selenio One

compression and processing needs,"
said David Heppe, VP of Product
Management, Distribution, Imagine
Communications.
The solution, which is
powered by Zenium, the pure
microservices-based technology
from Imagine that enables the
development of flexible and
modular platforms, can be
deployed with an optional
stat mux to enable media
companies to maximise
video quality and
bandwidth efficiency.
The software-only,
Selenio One XC - software option cloud-native
nature
platform, Imagine Communications of Selenio One XC also provides the
is further validating its commitment ability to support both premises and
to reducing complexity and overall cloud-based deployment modules - or
operating expenses by providing a mixture of the two - as well as take
content producers and distributors advantage of steady increases in the
with a single, versatile platform computational capabilities of COTS
for handling virtually all of their computing platforms.

BBright HEVC In A 4K Integrated
Workflow
B

Bright has introduced UHD
solutions for contribution, ingest,
playout and delivery around a HEVCbased video workflow to help broadcast
and media industries to deploy Ultra
HD services.
BBright is expanding its technology
leading
software-based
video
processing on broadcast grade
appliances to be used 24 / 7 by
network operators, broadcasters,
premium TV channels and telco's.
All accept HEVC as the central file or

input/output TS format for a simplified
and more uniform UHD workflow in the
video headend.
The new UHD-Decode is the latest
generation of high bit rate (up to 120
Mbps) 4:2:2 10-bit HEVC contribution
decoder with dual redundant TSoIP
inputs and quad 3G-SDI outputs.
Also unveiled at NAB will be
the HEVC-TSI is a high bit rate TS
ingest station meant to record live
contribution or distribution HEVC
transport stream.
Recording can be split in chunks, if
necessary (for further QC check) and

stored locally or on a central storage.
Once recorded these HEVC files can
also directly feed, as main playout
pivot format, the UHD-24/7 baseband
playout with event scheduler and fully
integrated playout automation.
HEVC compressed file playout
for direct delivery to various video
networks can also be achieved using
the UHD-TS, single or multichannel,
streamer.
UHD-TSI: High bit rate
HEVC ingest / recording
station for archives or
delayed delivery
http://www.inbroadcast.com http://www.imaginecommunications.com/products/distribution/transcoding/selenio-one-xc http://www.bbright.com/product-details/uhd-ts http://www.dbbroadcast.co.uk http://www.dbbroadcast.co.uk
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