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Envivio Introduces World’s First Reconfigurable Multichannel
and Multiplatform IP Video Encoding Architecture
August 15, 2007
Source: Envivio
Envivio Inc., the
leading technology provider of IP video convergence solutions
from mobile to HD, today introduced the world’s first
reconfigurable multichannel and multiplatform IP video encoding
architecture for IPTV, Internet TV and mobile TV services.
The Trans4M™ architecture enables a service provider
to reconfigure the Envivio® Trans4M-based encoders to
generate video streams supporting the “3 screens”
of video – TVs, PCs and mobile devices. Envivio will
demonstrate the Trans4M architecture at IBC2007 in its stand
#4.260.
The Trans4M architecture provides the ability
to reconfigure an encoder in real time to easily add new features
and functions without the need to replace units deployed in
the field. Trans4M-based encoders give service providers more
choices and flexibility with respect to the services they
can offer and the screen types that they can reach. The first
Envivio encoder to utilize this revolutionary new Trans4M
architecture is the 4Caster™ C4 IP video encoder supporting
both IPTV and Internet TV in its initial implementation.
“This is an entirely unique architecture
that only Envivio encoders can provide,” exclaimed Julien
Signès, President and CEO of Envivio. “Service
providers want to offer IP video to many different devices
while keeping costs and risks down and our Trans4M technology
makes this possible. For example, a service provider using
the C4 with the Trans4M architecture can have all four ingest
channels targeting standard definition IPTV set-top boxes
or a mixture of set-top boxes and PCs for Internet TV.”
“Even more incredible, a service provider
can decide to change their mix of targeted devices at any
time and reconfigure the C4 after it has been put on-line
to offer channels and capacity to the most popular video devices,”
added Jean-Pierre Henot, CTO of Envivio.
By enabling mobile TV, IPTV and Internet
TV services from the same Trans4M-based encoder, a service
provider will only need to invest in one headend rather than
three, and only one redundancy system and one management system,
resulting in significant capex and opex savings. Using one
encoding platform to provide these three services also reduces
the risk to a service provider with respect to interoperability
and compatibility of devices tied to these services. For those
service providers intending to offer only one or two of the
services enabled by the architecture, the Trans4M-based encoders
give them the flexibility to add another service at a later
date by simply expanding their existing headend or reconfiguring
their existing Trans4M-based encoders.
“More choices and more versatility,
equate to less cost and less risk. That’s what the Trans4M
architecture is about and that’s what service providers
need,” reminded Signès.
Currently, the 4Caster C4 IP video encoder
allows service providers to offer both IPTV and Internet TV
from the same encoder. However, the unique and flexible Trans4M
architecture of the 4Caster C4 encoder will ultimately bring
together the Envivio video compression expertise and industry
leading video quality to offer a multichannel and multiplatform
encoder capable of addressing the three screens supported
by mobile TV, Internet TV, and IPTV at extremely low bandwidths
over any network. The 4Caster C4 is available today.
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