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Show Daily | Tuesday 18 June 2019

MARINA BAY SANDS & SUNTEC SINGAPORE

Zixi for All IP

Gordon Brooks,	CEO	of	Zixi,	discusses	the	company's	history	
and evolution as a leader in live video delivery over IP...

BroadcastAsia:	 Zixi	 is	 the	 global	 leader	
in broadcast quality live video distribution
over IP. Can you give us an overview of the
company?
Gordon Brooks: Zixi has been in business
for over 10 years, all focused on pioneering
and perfecting the ability to move live and
live linear video over the open internet
with
99.999+%
broadcast-quality
reliability. The Zixi Platform provides ultralow-latency, advanced network, TR101,
content and business impact analytics
with comprehensive stream management
capabilities using our ZEN Master control
plane that allow all our customers to scale
video contribution and distribution confidently
and securely anywhere in the world.
BCA:	 What	 is	 Zixi's	 position	 on	
interoperability?
GB: One of Zixi's greatest advantages
is our interoperability. We have over 500
customers and are partners with more than
50 OEM and service providers globally.
This large ecosystem makes it easy for our
customers to scale with ease. There is an

emerging standard called the Reliable Internet
Stream Transport (RIST) initiative. Zixi is a
member and has helped develop the technical
recommendation. In the latest v13 release will
fully support RIST, expanding our Zixi Enabled
Network beyond Zixi enabled devices so that
we are truly interoperable with the largest
ecosystem of edge devices in the world.
BCA:	What	does	"Zixi	for	All	IP"	mean?
GB: Over the past
Zixi	for	All	IP
decade, Zixi has made
the Internet a proven and
trusted IP distribution path.
Today, we are counted on
by the biggest streaming
and broadcast companies
in the business who have
enabled Zixi to stand up
over 10,000 live events or
live linear channels over IP
around the world in over
100 countries. Zixi is being
deployed on Fiber and over
satellite on IP channels,
and ZEN Master allows for

full orchestration, management and alerting
across all of them.
BCA:	 How	 does	 Zixi	 support	 both	 onpremise and cloud solutions?
GB: Today's broadcast and media
companies have many ways to contribute and
distribute content. For virtualized workflows,
they need to bring content up to the cloud,
provide media services in the cloud, and

distribute from the cloud - Zixi does it all.
We're the foundational software for AWS
MediaConnect and have fully integrated on
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, among
many other cloud providers. For companies
who want to be on-premise, Zixi can be
deployed almost anywhere. We provide Zixi
across more than 100 edge devices - we're in
data centers, in trucks, in cameras, you name
it. However you want to source live video or
move it, Zixi is capable of doing it.
Gordon Brooks is presenting today from 2
to 2:25pm at the Suntec Singapore Innovation
Hub.
Visit Zixi on stand: 4Q3-09 Suntec.
www.zixi.com

ADTH Opens New Research and
Development Facility in Taiwan
Atlanta	DTH	(ADTH),	exhibiting	on	stand	4Q2-06,	marks	its	quarter	centenary	
at BroadcastAsia with the opening of a new research and development
facility in Taiwan...
This coincides with a major expansion of the
ADTH Tolka range of broadcast, OTT and IPTV
content protection products.
"The new facility strengthens our
engineering resources at a time
when the television industry is
gearing for the transition from
HD to 4K and onward to 8K,"
comments ADTH CEO Michael
Day.
"Our aim is to ensure television
viewers have the greatest
possible choice in what, when
and where, they choose to
watch. One of Tolka's greatest
strengths is its ability to think
outside the box, quite literally, in
the case of our DGI 1012 which
we introduced to the US market
at NAB. This is a cost-effective

dongle configured with a digital terrestrial
demodulator."
When used with a paired app, the DGI
1012 enables viewing of digital terrestrial

television transmissions on smart devices.
Network operators can now offer the dongle
to customers for direct free-to-air or payTV viewing on their mobile

The DGI 1012 can decode
transport streams

(left)
Courtesy of
Google Earth,
the new ADTH Tolka
R&D facility

devices
without
extensive
infrastructure
changes.
The
integral receiver can decode
HD or SD video encoded with
MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264. The
DGI 1012 can decode transport
streams, including conditional
access content, along with
multi-format audio and video. It
is compatible with conditional

access systems to permit the viewing of
secured digital terrestrial transmissions.
Located at Taiwan's capital city, Taipei, the
ADTH R&D facility will operate as a center of
excellence with a dedicated engineering team
focused on the development of new products
and services as well as the enhancement of
the existing Tolka product range.
See us at Stand 4Q2-06 Suntec.
www.adth.com
http://www.zixi.com http://www.adth.com
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