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IPTV (Internet Protocol Television)

Icon As broadband connectivity spreads around the world, IPTV is beginning to reshape the industry. With the number of subscribers expected to grow to more than 80 million households by 2011, providers must develop a comprehensive strategy to deliver compelling IP based content, services, and high definition video.

The optimal video management strategy accounts for the entire ecosystem that impacts the workflow of a video asset from initial ingest to the end point of consumption.

Even with all of the other video systems—storage, management, workflow, streaming, and others—the encoding and transcoding functions of video flow define the overall quality and efficient of every video asset. It is the one unique component of the IPTV landscape that can influence more efficient performance of every other function across the landscape.

The convergence of the broadcast center with the data center demands cinema-quality performance with the openness and computing environment of traditional data-centric solutions.

That is why CodecSys™ is the encoding and transcoding solution for the ages. As a software platform it easily integrates with your data center systems—yet delivers the performance and quality you expect from broadcast quality solutions.

A typical provider can expect dramatic savings by expanding their bandwidth capacity by an additional 33% when implementing CodecSys at the heart of their IPTV video workflow.

Before CodecSys

100 channels of HD programming delivered over an average of
8 MBPS = 800 MBPS of allocated bandwidth

With CodecSys

Those same 100 Channels of HD content can now be delivered at
5 MBPS = 500 MBPS of allocated bandwidth

Savings

The additional 300MBS frees up capacity to deliver 60 more channels of HD programming over the same network. The math is simple and compelling: 60 more channels which generate more top line revenue or a 38% reduction in required bandwidth


Either way, a tremendous uplift to the bottom line and greatly enhanced efficiencies of network assets is experience.