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Envivio bulks up encoder density
September 5, 2012 2:42 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsThe Envivio 4Caster G4 encoding appliance for the Envivio Muse software-based encoder family offers six times the density compared to the current platform – up to 72 SD or 12 HD channels per 2RU chassis, with the potential for further future density improvements.
Harmonic upgrades contribution system
September 5, 2012 2:38 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsBy integrating 4:2:2 decoding for DVB-S/S2, IP and DVB-ASI input interfaces into the ProView 7100, Harmonic said it allows content providers to cost-effectively decode SD and HD content presented as either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 AVC compressed streams with improved picture fidelity.
New Products - September 2012
September 4, 2012 9:54 pm | by CED Magazine | CommentsThomson Video Networks' ViBE VS7000 multi-screen video platform has been enhanced with new features, SeaChange demonstrated the latest innovations of its Nucleus soft box gateway, and Volicon’s loudness monitoring and logging solution is now available on its Observer Scout platform.
Alcatel-Lucent, Concurrent combine forces on expanding VOD catalogs
September 4, 2012 2:23 pm | by Mike Robuck | CommentsThe expanded VOD offerings can be delivered to traditional set-top boxes, as well as tablets, PCs and smartphones, using Alcatel-Lucent’s Velocix CDN technology and Concurrent’s MediaHawk Unified Origin and TV-VOD edge servers. The new TV Everywhere architecture has been put through its paces via a trial with a large cable MSO.
Elemental sets up video cloud service
August 31, 2012 12:23 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsThe company plans to introduce Elemental Cloud at IBC in Amsterdam. At the same time, it will begin making available Elemental Server Cloud Edition (CE), a file-based solution for high speed, multi-format video conversion in the cloud.
After golden run at Olympics, Adobe unveils TV Everywhere enhancements
August 30, 2012 1:59 pm | by Mike Robuck | CommentsComing on the heels of a successful trial run at the Olympics, Adobe Systems announced it has upgraded its Adobe Pass platform to its second version. Adobe put Adobe Pass 2.0 through its paces during the recent 2012 London Olympic Games, which served as a milestone for TV Everywhere services.
TiVo set to market multi-screen streamer
August 29, 2012 2:57 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsTiVo is preparing to hit the market with its retail transcoder/router that enables TiVo Premiere DVR users to distribute up to four simultaneous streams to Apple iOS devices. The TiVo Stream, announced earlier this year, will sell for $130 and will be available from TiVo on Sept. 6 and at Best Buy shortly thereafter.
Tek upgrades Sentry with RF monitoring
August 27, 2012 3:05 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsTektronix expands its family of solutions for network-wide video quality monitoring to complement monitoring in the digital domain. Tektronix introduced a new version of its video quality monitors that adds the ability to monitor video post-QAM RF video, complementing the ability to evaluate video quality in the digital domain.
Carlson antenna a big gain for white spaces
August 24, 2012 2:44 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsCarlson announced a new antenna specifically designed to support the use of white-space spectrum. The company’s new omnidirectional base station antenna provides high gain across the entire UHF spectrum, which will help improve overall performance of white space transmissions.
New antenna could vastly increase wireless net capacity
August 23, 2012 3:42 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsRice University researchers unveiled a multi-antenna beamforming technology that could help wireless providers keep pace with the voracious demands of data-hungry smartphones and tablets. As a bonus, using the antennas would save on energy. Furthermore, they can be built using mostly off-the-shelf hardware.
Envivio encoder bumps up efficiency
August 23, 2012 3:41 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsThe company claims the latest version of its transcoding software can improve transcoding speed by up to 35 percent. Envivio introduced a new version of its on-demand transcoding software that the company’s own testing indicates an improvement of up to 35 percent in file-to-file transcoding speed, as compared to competing platforms that require hardware acceleration.
Ericsson debuts encoder for mobile video
August 22, 2012 3:40 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsEricsson is on the verge of hitting the market with a new HEVC/H.265 encoder for the delivery of live and linear TV over mobile networks to mobile devices. The device, based on the H.265 proposed standard, nearly doubles compression rates, making it especially desirable for transmission of video on LTE networks, where bandwidth is an even more limited resource than elsewhere.
Lantiq prepares for VoLTE home gateway
August 22, 2012 3:37 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsThe chip designer is working with two software companies, D2 Technologies and Ecrio, to create a gateway reference design that will support voice over LTE (VoLTE) services in consumers’ homes. VoLTE, a software stack built around the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), provides native voice and other rich media services on LTE networks.
Harmonic media server adds solid-state memory
August 21, 2012 3:13 pm | by Brian Santo | CommentsHarmonic has a new version of its integrated media server, this one including solid-state disk (SSD) storage. Otherwise, the Spectrum MediaDeck 7000 SSD four-channel media server is essentially the same system as the MediaDeck 7000.
ZTE boasts 1st multi-standard LTE hotspot, USB modem
August 17, 2012 3:13 pm | by Andrew Berg, Wireless Week | CommentsChinese telecommunications equipment and mobile devices provider ZTE is lending a hand in facilitating the adoption of China Mobile's LTE network with the launch of the world's first multi-standard USB modem and uFi (hotspot), which support both FD-LTE and TD-LTE networks.
