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The first-ever standards-based product suite for integrated multiscreen IP video delivery and monetization. Learn more on our website and blog: www.rgbnetworks.com/blog Transcoding. Packaging. Adaptive bitrate ad insertion. eVIA CED ® Magazine, October 2011. CED ® is a registered trademark of Advantage Business Media. CED ® is not responsible for any errors or omis- sions in this chart. www.CEDmagazine.com. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission of the publisher is prohibited. Multiple Approaches to Multiple Approaches to MULTI-SCREEN MULTI-SCREEN T T Multi-Screen Subscriber Experience. Available Now: SeaChange ® Nitro Software. Unified. Socialized. Optimized. Video. Personal. Everywhere. www.schange.com MOTOROLA MEDIOS. www.motorola.com/medios BigBand’s Solution for Multi-Screen Video Delivery and Advanced Advertising BigBand Networks’ multi-screen solution helps operators generate new revenues from the delivery of addressable advertis- ing, IPTV, VOD and other highly personalized services. Whether content is sent to MPEG-2/4 set-tops or via adaptive streaming to IP-connected devices and Internet-enabled TVs, BigBand’s solutions optimize bandwidth utilization and leverage existing network infrastructures to ensure the scalable deployment of new video services without degrading the quality of other services or the consumer experience, regardless of access device. The solution features BigBand’s Media Services Platform (MSP), Converged Video Exchange (CVEx) and vIP PASS IP delivery system. MSP’s modular blade, multi-services platform supports a range of critical applications, including multi-screen video delivery and advertising, and features the industry’s most dense QAM applica- tion, with 40:1 QAMs per port in a single integrated chassis. CVEx is a software-based video control plane that provides a true convergence between different video applications, RF and IP transports, and consumer screens. By treating network bandwidth as a common resource across all applications, CVEx dramatically simplifies the implementation and management of next-generation video delivery. And vIP PASS “extends” managed video services to subscriber- owned devices in the home network. It leverages an operator’s investment in switched digital video (SDV) and Universal Edge QAMs to provide a cost-effective video service using a standard DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem or gateway. BigBand’s multi-screen solution powers increasingly personal- ized TV experiences. The solution can be deployed today and can be easily modified to accommodate future demands. The SeaChange Adrenalin platform is a next-generation uni- fied back office based on an open, service-oriented architecture, enabling operators to manage, monetize and deliver a seamless multi-screen experience to subscribers. Adrenalin incorporates business applications, content management, publishing, session and resource management, advanced management and moni- toring, and client publishers. The platform integrates years of proven technology innovations such as REST-based architecture, n+1 scaling, Active/Active DBs and a CentOS enterprise-class computing platform. Adrenalin also provides a number of tools enabling operators to monetize multi-screen deployments. SeaChange Infusion is a comprehensive advanced advertis- ing platform that enables dynamic ad insertion for VOD and linear content across multiple screens. Infusion provides opera- tors with unrivaled manageability, scalability and suitability necessary to succeed in today’s video advertising environment. By supporting standards such as SCTE 130, IAB VAST and VPAID, Infusion implements more intelligence into the place- ment of ad decisions and provides additional freedom to work with multiple external systems to optimize ad revenues. SeaChange Business Management Suite is a non-technical GUI to manage on-demand and linear product offers. The BMS enables the creation of promotions such as bundled offers, movie coupons, happy hour, loyalty programs, gift certificates, and many other offers that entice subscribers to purchase more content and increase ARPU. SeaChange Nitro is a fully customizable multi-screen user experience application that enables operators to provide a seamless presentation of linear and on-demand content on any screen. Nitro leverages HTML5 and gives users intuitive features, including easy navigation, bookmarking, recommen- dations and social media integration. SeaChange’s Adrenalin Provides Unified Back Office VideoCPE QoS, DRM, Bandwidth, Encryption, Metrics Simple Control of Content for all 3 screens: Monitoring, Advertising, Billing Video Access QoS, Bandwidth, Metrics, Transcoding, Storage Video Management VOD Applications Time-shifted Applications Dynamic Ad Insertion Applications Linear Ad Insertion Applications Subscriber Management Systems Demand-side Advertising Systems Digital Rights Management Systems ConvergeMedia Manager / AdManager Multi-screen Video Monetization, Management & Assurance Service Assurance KPI Monitoring Real-Time Analytics Placement Broker Enterprise-wide Decision Service Advertising Management Content Workflow Advertising Spots Programs Transcoding Control Rights Metadata Offer Management Guide / Portal Management Entitlement Management CDN Resource Management Content Routing Application Management ARRIS ConvergeMedia™ XMS Origin Server and Network Cache’ ARRIS VIPr™ Transcoder ARRIS C4® CMTS Converged Edge Router Content Acquisition VIDEO VOICE DATA INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS DOCSIS 3.0, 802.11n DLNA, MoCA, ARRIS Moxi Gateway® ARRIS Moxi Player® DOCSIS PON Wi-Fi 4G The Multi-Screen IP Video solution answers the demand for a single service provider offering that provides easy-to-use, person- alized multi-room subscriber access to all types of unicast and multicast content. The Arris Multi-Screen IP Video Cable Architec- ture begins in the cable headend with video content workflow. The Arris VIPr platform enables the encoding, transcoding and packaging of multiple format content. For its storage and distribu- tion, the Arris ConvergeMedia XMS COTS Distribution Server and ConvergeMedia Management platform allow service providers to flexibly manage all types of on-demand and advertising content across multiple devices, such as set-top boxes, PCs and mobile devices, while providing subscriber authentication, advertising placement, service monitoring and assurance. Content then proceeds either over the operator-managed network with QoS to the home, or over an unmanaged access network to mobile and portable devices. In the operator-managed case, the Arris Whole Home Solution’s Moxi Gateway terminates the conditional access and de- livers content to Moxi Player DNLA devices with DTCP-IP protection, with the added benefit of a user interface that provides easy access to more personalized content on more screens with more features. The Arris Multi-Screen IP Video Architecture Concurrent — Copyright 2011 Motorola’s solution architecture allows cable and telco network operators to evolve current infrastructure and network assets to capitalize on the business opportunities. The Motorola Medios multi-screen service management soft- ware suite is an evolution of the existing video services infrastruc- ture – not a replacement – making it a flexible and easy-to-deploy migration path for service providers. It relies on open systems and standards-based interfaces wherever possible, enabling integra- tion with existing customer-developed and/or third-party systems already deployed in service provider networks. Motorola Medios is designed for broadband bi-directional IP connectivity to enable rich media and interactive video experi- ences, thereby overcoming the limitations of traditional digital networks. Motorola’s Medios Multi-Screen Service Management Software here’s been so much discussion of the ability to deliver content to everything from TVs to PCs to mobile devices that one could be forgiven for thinking it’s a ubiquitous service. Not quite. The commercialization of multi-screen delivery is following a common trend path: Pioneers roll out the service, while everyone else holds fire, waiting for the kinks to be ironed out and the business to prove it can generate revenue. And maybe for the costs to come down. Complicating things a bit, there are several different ways to accomplish delivery, based on a number of variables that include: what kind of equipment a company already has that can be leveraged and where the content being delivered is stored (and with whom). All of that is compounded by business considerations; Cablevision devised a novel system of delivering content through its video channel, an approach designed to sidestep arguments about distribution rights (it’s worked, so far). Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have developed their own multi-screen capabilities, largely in-house. Virgin Media in the U.K. and StarHub in Singapore have turned to SeaChange to implement and manage multi-screen delivery. Ericsson recently announced that Chungwa Telecom will be using its multi-screen TV solution starting in December. Swisscom recently demonstrated multi-screen capabilities using equipment from RGB Networks. There are several implementations of TV Everywhere, which might be considered a subset of multi-screen, inasmuch as subscribers do in fact get access to content on multiple screens. The distinction (one not universally agreed to) is that it is typically the programmer that initi- ates the delivery of the video, not the service provider, though the service provider does authenticate the customer and ultimately delivers the content on its broadband network. Azuki Systems is the power behind HBO’s HBO Go. And Envivio has announced its 4Caster C4 encoding platform is being used for TV Ev- erywhere services by Belgacom, Orange France and Stofa Denmark. As the industry rapidly embraces the opportunity to satisfy consumer demand for TV content on any device, anywhere, Ericsson is emerging as the multi-plat- form, multi-screen partner of choice with the most comprehensive and complete solution, coupled with the hands-on experience of making scalable multi-screen services happen. Comprising an award-winning product set for every key area of content deliv- ery to the consumer, Ericsson’s portfolio includes: The latest multi-screen linear video processing to enable the massive expansion in processing needed to deliver hundreds of linear TV channels in a multi-screen offering. WatchPoint CMS and TSTV, allowing the most complex on-demand content crea- tion and processing to be efficiently enabled, especially with multi-screen complexity. Ericsson Media Delivery Management System, a next-generation unified service delivery platform that provides on-demand video to all screens. Highly scalable and fault-tolerant, this back office is built to uniquely provide the scalability and business agility needed for the multi-screen future. Ericsson’s Multi-Screen Middleware, SDK and Portal unifies experiences across all devices, and across multi-platform delivery networks of broad- cast and IP. Ericsson Media Delivery Network, a media-centric operator CDN that provides new revenue opportunities and reduced operational costs with delivery of content in managed and unmanaged networks. Ericsson Media Connect, an innovative second screen tablet proposition for operators to enable consumers to interact with an advanced EPG and discover and interact socially with content. Fixed and wireless network infrastructure enabling broadband IP everywhere. Ericsson End-to-Endless Multi-Platform, Multi-Screen Video Solution RGB Networks’ Enhanced Video Intelligence Architecture (eVIA) pro- vides a suite of standards-based products that enable the delivery and monetization of advanced HTTP streaming video services to multiple screens. The highly flexible eVIA ecosystem provides the scalability necessitated by the accelerating growth of multi-screen services, with industry-leading density and reliability designed into every component. RGB’s eVIA is anchored by its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG), a highly scalable, carrier-class transcoding platform that combines software flexibility with the robustness and processing power of a hardware solution, and RGB’s TransAct Packager, a unique solution for packaging/segmenting/fragmentation. Separat- ing transcoding from the packaging function provides flexibility to deploy both centralized and distributed architectures, depending on the operator’s requirements. RGB’s unique Packager is integrated with all of the leading DRM solutions, supports all prominent delivery protocols and can insert manifest markers based on SCTE 35 signaling to support adaptive bit rate ad insertion. Leveraging RGB’s years of ad insertion expertise, eVIA enables service providers to monetize HTTP streaming services with truly targeted advertising capabilities – on managed or unmanaged networks. This first-of-its-kind architecture takes HTTP streaming services well past current capabilities. RGB’s eVIA Multi-Screen IP Video Delivery and Monetization Solution Concurrent’s MediaHawk Video Solution represents an open and intelligent video delivery and management solution that can help operators, telcos, CDNs and Internet content aggregators expand their service offerings and unleash new video-related revenue. Concurrent’s MediaHawk VX video delivery software builds on the success of its VOD and time-shifted TV solutions, as well as Concurrent’s Gatling Resilient Streaming. The MediaHawk VX platform features the addition of its Unified Multi-Screen Delivery Platform, providing RTSP, HTTP progressive download and HTTP adaptive streaming from one server. In addition, the MediaHawk VX platform offers a path for ad- vanced features and architectures, such as network DVR, national or regional content libraries utilizing CDN or edge caching capabilities, and the integration and management of user-generated content. Concurrent’s Multi-Screen MediaHawk Solution Harmonic end-to-end video processing solutions enable new efficiencies for multi-screen delivery across live, VOD and control envi- ronments. At the heart of this open, scalable architecture is a suite of next-generation solutions that simplify content preparation and the delivery of high-quality video to multiple on-net and off-net devices. Electra 9000 The Electra 9000 integrated broadcast and multi-screen encod- er is the world’s first multi-codec, multi-format video compression system for IPTV and cable operators that simultaneously supports broadcast, mobile and Web formats in a 1RU chassis. It provides superior video quality while adding the ability for operators to deliver combined broadcast and multi-screen services as their needs evolve. ProMedia family To extend existing broadcast headends, the new ProMedia fam- ily of software and appliance solutions performs a broad range of functions across the workflow. The unique and fully integrated product suite includes ProMedia Live, a real-time video processing and transcoding system; ProMedia Carbon, a file-based trans- coder powered by Rhozet technology; ProMedia Package, a car- rier-grade adaptive streaming preparation system; and ProMedia Origin, an HTTP and RTMP streaming video server. Omneon MediaGrid An essential part of the Harmonic multi-screen solution is the Omneon MediaGrid active storage system, a shared architecture that consolidates content, reduces administration and optimizes workflows. It includes a built-in clustered file system designed and tuned for media files, and can scale from a few terabytes to petabytes while remaining online. As consumer expectation for affordable, convenient, high- quality video everywhere becomes the norm, Harmonic multi- screen solutions allow cable operators to benefit from stream- lined headend operations while offering subscribers maximum video quality on the widest range of devices. Harmonic IP Cable Solutions for Multi-Screens The Azuki Media Platform was built from the ground up to support protected premium content delivery to any screen over any network. As an end-to- end content delivery solution for TV Everywhere, the Azuki Media Platform has an intelligent cli- ent architecture that supports multiple screens and plugs into existing infrastructure and work- flows – not to displace these technology investments, but to interface with them and provide an added level of intelligence for “device-network awareness.” The Azuki Intelligent Client enables a consistent user experience and interface across all screens, with simplified device management with common video SDK. It also provides HLS adaptive streaming on non-Apple devices, STBs and smart TVs, as well as centralized multi-screen play-stop-resume state management and content access flexibility with centralized authentication interfaces. The Azuki Media Platform provides powerful content protection on all screens while delivering superior content quality (live and VOD) under any network condition. Also, it provides connector interfaces to major third- party recommendation and analytical engines, service providers’ specific digital storefronts, EPGs and social networks. Most importantly, the Azuki Media Platform captures real-time statistics and reporting while providing service providers with multiple monetization opportunities on all screens. Azuki’s Multi-Screen Video Delivery Architecture

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Page 1: Multiple Approaches to MULTI-SCREEN · ARRIS VIPr™ Transcoder ARRIS C4® CMTS Converged Edge Router Content Acquisition VIDEO VOICE DATA INTERACTIVE ... The Arris Multi-Screen IP

The first-ever standards-based product suite for integrated multiscreen IP video delivery and monetization.

Learn more on our website and blog:www.rgbnetworks.com/blogTranscoding. Packaging. Adaptive bitrate ad insertion.

eVIA

CED® Magazine, October 2011. CED® is a registered trademark of Advantage Business Media. CED® is not responsible for any errors or omis-sions in this chart. www.CEDmagazine.com. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission of the publisher is prohibited.

Multiple Approaches to Multiple Approaches to MULTI-SCREENMULTI-SCREEN TT

Multi-Screen Subscriber Experience.

Available Now:

SeaChange® Nitro™ Software.

Unified. Socialized. Optimized.

Video. Personal. Everywhere.www.schange.com

MOTOROLA MEDIOS.www.motorola.com/medios

BigBand’s Solution for Multi-Screen Video Delivery and Advanced Advertising

BigBand Networks’ multi-screen solution helps operators generate new revenues from the delivery of addressable advertis-ing, IPTV, VOD and other highly personalized services. Whether content is sent to MPEG-2/4 set-tops or via adaptive streaming to IP-connected devices and Internet-enabled TVs, BigBand’s solutions optimize bandwidth utilization and leverage existing network infrastructures to ensure the scalable deployment of new video services without degrading the quality of other services or the consumer experience, regardless of access device. The solution features BigBand’s Media Services Platform (MSP), Converged Video Exchange (CVEx) and vIP PASS IP delivery system.

MSP’s modular blade, multi-services platform supports a range of critical applications, including multi-screen video delivery and advertising, and features the industry’s most dense QAM applica-tion, with 40:1 QAMs per port in a single integrated chassis.

CVEx is a software-based video control plane that provides a true convergence between different video applications, RF and IP transports, and consumer screens. By treating network bandwidth as a common resource across all applications, CVEx dramatically simplifi es the implementation and management of next-generation video delivery.

And vIP PASS “extends” managed video services to subscriber-owned devices in the home network. It leverages an operator’s investment in switched digital video (SDV) and Universal Edge QAMs to provide a cost-effective video service using a standard DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem or gateway.

BigBand’s multi-screen solution powers increasingly personal-ized TV experiences. The solution can be deployed today and can be easily modifi ed to accommodate future demands.

The SeaChange Adrenalin platform is a next-generation uni-fi ed back offi ce based on an open, service-oriented architecture, enabling operators to manage, monetize and deliver a seamless multi-screen experience to subscribers. Adrenalin incorporates business applications, content management, publishing, session and resource management, advanced management and moni-toring, and client publishers. The platform integrates years of proven technology innovations such as REST-based architecture, n+1 scaling, Active/Active DBs and a CentOS enterprise-class computing platform. Adrenalin also provides a number of tools enabling operators to monetize multi-screen deployments.

SeaChange Infusion is a comprehensive advanced advertis-ing platform that enables dynamic ad insertion for VOD and linear content across multiple screens. Infusion provides opera-tors with unrivaled manageability, scalability and suitability necessary to succeed in today’s video advertising environment.

By supporting standards such as SCTE 130, IAB VAST and VPAID, Infusion implements more intelligence into the place-ment of ad decisions and provides additional freedom to work with multiple external systems to optimize ad revenues.

SeaChange Business Management Suite is a non-technical GUI to manage on-demand and linear product offers. The BMS enables the creation of promotions such as bundled offers, movie coupons, happy hour, loyalty programs, gift certifi cates, and many other offers that entice subscribers to purchase more content and increase ARPU.

SeaChange Nitro is a fully customizable multi-screen user experience application that enables operators to provide a seamless presentation of linear and on-demand content on any screen. Nitro leverages HTML5 and gives users intuitive features, including easy navigation, bookmarking, recommen-dations and social media integration.

SeaChange’s Adrenalin Provides Unifi ed Back Offi ce

Video CPEQoS, DRM, Bandwidth, Encryption, Metrics

Simple Control of Content for all 3 screens: Monitoring, Advertising, Billing

Video AccessQoS, Bandwidth, Metrics,

Transcoding, Storage

Video Management

VODApplications

Time-shiftedApplications

Dynamic AdInsertion

Applications

Linear AdInsertion

Applications

SubscriberManagement

Systems

Demand-sideAdvertising

Systems

Digital RightsManagement

Systems ConvergeMedia Manager / AdManagerMulti-screen Video Monetization, Management & Assurance

Service Assurance

KPI Monitoring Real-TimeAnalytics

PlacementBroker

Enterprise-wideDecision Service

Advertising Management

Content Workflow

Advertising Spots

Programs

TranscodingControl Rights Metadata

Offer Management

Guide / PortalManagement

EntitlementManagement

CDN ResourceManagement

Content Routing

ApplicationManagement

ARRISConvergeMedia™ XMS Origin Server

and Network Cache’

ARRISVIPr™

Transcoder

ARRIS C4® CMTSConverged Edge

Router

ContentAcquisition

VIDEO

VOICE

DATA

INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS

INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS

DOCSIS 3.0, 802.11nDLNA, MoCA,

ARRIS Moxi Gateway®

ARRIS Moxi Player®

DOCSIS

PON

Wi-Fi

4G

The Multi-Screen IP Video solution answers the demand for a single service provider offering that provides easy-to-use, person-alized multi-room subscriber access to all types of unicast and multicast content. The Arris Multi-Screen IP Video Cable Architec-ture begins in the cable headend with video content workfl ow. The Arris VIPr platform enables the encoding, transcoding and packaging of multiple format content. For its storage and distribu-tion, the Arris ConvergeMedia XMS COTS Distribution Server and ConvergeMedia Management platform allow service providers to fl exibly manage all types of on-demand and advertising content

across multiple devices, such as set-top boxes, PCs and mobile devices, while providing subscriber authentication, advertising placement, service monitoring and assurance.

Content then proceeds either over the operator-managed network with QoS to the home, or over an unmanaged access network to mobile and portable devices. In the operator-managed case, the Arris Whole Home Solution’s Moxi Gateway terminates the conditional access and de-livers content to Moxi Player DNLA devices with DTCP-IP protection, with the added benefi t of a user interface that provides easy access to more personalized content on more screens with more features.

The Arris Multi-Screen IP Video Architecture

Concurrent — Copyright 2011

Motorola’s solution architecture allows cable and telco network operators to evolve current infrastructure and network assets to capitalize on the business opportunities.

The Motorola Medios multi-screen service management soft-ware suite is an evolution of the existing video services infrastruc-ture – not a replacement – making it a fl exible and easy-to-deploy migration path for service providers. It relies on open systems and

standards-based interfaces wherever possible, enabling integra-tion with existing customer-developed and/or third-party systems already deployed in service provider networks.

Motorola Medios is designed for broadband bi-directional IP connectivity to enable rich media and interactive video experi-ences, thereby overcoming the limitations of traditional digital networks.

Motorola’s Medios Multi-Screen Service Management Software

here’s been so much discussion of the ability to deliver content to everything from TVs to PCs to mobile devices that one could be forgiven for thinking it’s a ubiquitous service. Not quite.

The commercialization of multi-screen delivery is following a common trend path: Pioneers roll out the service, while everyone else holds fi re, waiting for the kinks to be ironed out and the business to prove it can generate revenue. And maybe for the costs to come down.

Complicating things a bit, there are several different ways to accomplish delivery, based on a number of variables that include: what kind of equipment a company already has that can be leveraged and where the content being delivered is stored (and with whom). All of that is compounded by business considerations; Cablevision devised a novel system of delivering content through its video channel, an approach designed to sidestep arguments about distribution rights (it’s worked, so far).

Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have developed their own multi-screen capabilities, largely in-house. Virgin Media in the U.K. and StarHub in Singapore have turned to SeaChange to implement and manage multi-screen delivery. Ericsson recently announced that Chungwa Telecom will be using its multi-screen TV solution starting in December. Swisscom recently demonstrated multi-screen capabilities using equipment from RGB Networks.

There are several implementations of TV Everywhere, which might be considered a subset of multi-screen, inasmuch as subscribers do in fact get access to content on multiple screens. The distinction (one not universally agreed to) is that it is typically the programmer that initi-ates the delivery of the video, not the service provider, though the service provider does authenticate the customer and ultimately delivers the content on its broadband network.

Azuki Systems is the power behind HBO’s HBO Go. And Envivio has announced its 4Caster C4 encoding platform is being used for TV Ev-erywhere services by Belgacom, Orange France and Stofa Denmark.

As the industry rapidly embraces the opportunity to satisfy consumer demand for TV content on any device, anywhere, Ericsson is emerging as the multi-plat-form, multi-screen partner of choice with the most comprehensive and complete solution, coupled with the hands-on experience of making scalable multi-screen services happen.

Comprising an award-winning product set for every key area of content deliv-ery to the consumer, Ericsson’s portfolio includes:• The latest multi-screen linear video processing to enable the massive expansion

in processing needed to deliver hundreds of linear TV channels in a multi-screen offering.

• WatchPoint CMS and TSTV, allowing the most complex on-demand content crea-tion and processing to be effi ciently enabled, especially with multi-screen complexity.

• Ericsson Media Delivery Management System, a next-generation unifi ed service

delivery platform that provides on-demand video to all screens. Highly scalable and fault-tolerant, this back offi ce is built to uniquely provide the scalability and business agility needed for the multi-screen future.

• Ericsson’s Multi-Screen Middleware, SDK and Portal unifi es experiences across all devices, and across multi-platform delivery networks of broad-cast and IP.

• Ericsson Media Delivery Network, a media-centric operator CDN that provides new revenue opportunities and reduced operational costs with delivery of content in managed and unmanaged networks.

• Ericsson Media Connect, an innovative second screen tablet proposition for operators to enable consumers to interact with an advanced EPG and discover and interact socially with content.

• Fixed and wireless network infrastructure enabling broadband IP everywhere.

Ericsson End-to-Endless Multi-Platform, Multi-Screen Video Solution

RGB Networks’ Enhanced Video Intelligence Architecture (eVIA) pro-vides a suite of standards-based products that enable the delivery and monetization of advanced HTTP streaming video services to multiple screens. The highly fl exible eVIA ecosystem provides the scalability necessitated by the accelerating growth of multi-screen services, with industry-leading density and reliability designed into every component.

RGB’s eVIA is anchored by its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG), a highly scalable, carrier-class transcoding platform that combines software fl exibility with the robustness and processing power of a hardware solution, and RGB’s TransAct Packager, a unique solution for packaging/segmenting/fragmentation. Separat-

ing transcoding from the packaging function provides fl exibility to deploy both centralized and distributed architectures, depending on the operator’s requirements. RGB’s unique Packager is integrated with all of the leading DRM solutions, supports all prominent delivery protocols and can insert manifest markers based on SCTE 35 signaling to support adaptive bit rate ad insertion.

Leveraging RGB’s years of ad insertion expertise, eVIA enables service providers to monetize HTTP streaming services with truly targeted advertising capabilities – on managed or unmanaged networks. This fi rst-of-its-kind architecture takes HTTP streaming services well past current capabilities.

RGB’s eVIA Multi-Screen IP Video Delivery and Monetization Solution

Concurrent’s MediaHawk Video Solution represents an open and intelligent video delivery and management solution that can help operators, telcos, CDNs and Internet content aggregators expand their service offerings and unleash new video-related revenue.

Concurrent’s MediaHawk VX video delivery software builds on the success of its VOD and time-shifted TV solutions, as well as Concurrent’s Gatling Resilient Streaming. The MediaHawk VX

platform features the addition of its Unifi ed Multi-Screen Delivery Platform, providing RTSP, HTTP progressive download and HTTP adaptive streaming from one server.

In addition, the MediaHawk VX platform offers a path for ad-vanced features and architectures, such as network DVR, national or regional content libraries utilizing CDN or edge caching capabilities, and the integration and management of user-generated content.

Concurrent’s Multi-Screen MediaHawk Solution

Harmonic end-to-end video processing solutions enable new effi ciencies for multi-screen delivery across live, VOD and control envi-ronments. At the heart of this open, scalable architecture is a suite of next-generation solutions that simplify content preparation and the delivery of high-quality video to multiple on-net and off-net devices.

Electra 9000The Electra 9000 integrated broadcast and multi-screen encod-

er is the world’s fi rst multi-codec, multi-format video compression system for IPTV and cable operators that simultaneously supports broadcast, mobile and Web formats in a 1RU chassis. It provides superior video quality while adding the ability for operators to deliver combined broadcast and multi-screen services as their needs evolve.

ProMedia familyTo extend existing broadcast headends, the new ProMedia fam-

ily of software and appliance solutions performs a broad range of functions across the workfl ow. The unique and fully integrated

product suite includes ProMedia Live, a real-time video processing and transcoding system; ProMedia Carbon, a fi le-based trans-coder powered by Rhozet technology; ProMedia Package, a car-rier-grade adaptive streaming preparation system; and ProMedia Origin, an HTTP and RTMP streaming video server.

Omneon MediaGridAn essential part of the Harmonic multi-screen solution is the

Omneon MediaGrid active storage system, a shared architecture that consolidates content, reduces administration and optimizes workfl ows. It includes a built-in clustered fi le system designed and tuned for media fi les, and can scale from a few terabytes to petabytes while remaining online.

As consumer expectation for affordable, convenient, high-quality video everywhere becomes the norm, Harmonic multi-screen solutions allow cable operators to benefi t from stream-lined headend operations while offering subscribers maximum video quality on the widest range of devices.

Harmonic IP Cable Solutions for Multi-Screens

The Azuki Media Platform was built from the ground up to support protected premium content delivery to any screen over any network. As an end-to-end content delivery solution for TV Everywhere, the Azuki Media Platform has an intelligent cli-ent architecture that supports multiple screens and plugs into existing infrastructure and work-fl ows – not to displace these technology investments, but to interface with them and provide an added level of intelligence for “device-network awareness.”

The Azuki Intelligent Client enables a consistent user experience and interface across all screens, with simplifi ed device management with common video SDK. It also provides HLS adaptive streaming on non-Apple devices, STBs and smart TVs, as well as centralized multi-screen play-stop-resume state management and content access fl exibility with centralized authentication interfaces.

The Azuki Media Platform provides powerful content protection on all

screens while delivering superior content quality (live and VOD) under any network condition. Also, it provides connector interfaces to major third-party recommendation and analytical engines, service providers’ specifi c digital storefronts, EPGs and social networks. Most importantly, the Azuki Media Platform captures real-time statistics and reporting while providing service providers with multiple monetization opportunities on all screens.

Azuki’s Multi-Screen Video Delivery Architecture