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Secure and Reliable Streaming are
the Rule at Cobalt
Full support for RIST certificate-based authentication
and SRT incorporated into Encoder and Decoder
families for enhanced security...
C
obalt®
Digital,
designer
and
manufacturer of award-winning
edge devices for live video production
and master control, has announced
that its implementation of the Reliable
Internet Stream Transport (RIST) Main
Profile now includes full support for
certificate-based
authentication. The
enhanced functionality gives users of
Cobalt's 9992 encoder/decoder family
and 9990 decoder an added level of
security by ensuring the identity of the
remote site when transmitting content
over the Internet with RIST. Cobalt
is an original contributor to the RIST
protocol and is also a founding partner
in the openGear® initiative.
RIST, developed jointly by a group of
experts from a variety of stakeholder
companies, provides for a technically
robust streaming solution in any
application, use case, or environment.
Support for RIST's certificate-based
authentication enables Cobalt
products to easily generate and
manage security certificates, thereby
assuring the validity of an incoming
signal's source and destination.
The enhancements are available
for Cobalt's broadcast-grade 9992
encoder/decoder family of industry
standard openGear® card modules
that already provide professionalgrade
support for compressed
audio and video resolution up to
4K, as well as the 9990-DEC-MPEG
decoder. The 9992-ENC is a softwaredefined
encoder expandable
up
to four channels. It's upgradable
with HEVC video encoding for a
dramatic compression efficiency
improvement over previous video
compression standards, while also
supporting existing MPEG-2 and
MPEG-4 AVC. Cobalt's 9992-DEC is
a software-defined multi-standard
CDI9992-ENC-DEC
decoder that supports MPEG-2, AVC
(H.264) and HEVC (H.265) and offers a
full complement of audio decoding
capabilities.
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Cobalt has also made full support
Reliable
SRT
(Secure
Transport) available for the 9992
encoder/decoder family and 9990
decoders (future availability). SRT
is a legacy protocol for low-latency,
reliable
transport over the Internet
derived from the public domain UDP
Data Transfer file transfer standard.
The encoder/decoders are backward
compatible with existing devices
utilizing SRT.
" Security is an enormous concern
today, especially with the dramatic
increase in streaming due to the
pandemic, " explained Dr. Ciro
Noronha, Executive Vice President
of Engineering
Cobalt.
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" The RIST
protocol enables
greater choice and
flexibility for broadcasters, allowing
them to take advantage of the costeffective
internet for contribution
feeds with top-of-the-line security,
as well as the freedom to mix 'best
of breed' products from different
vendors. Cobalt is a strong supporter
of open standards and is delighted
to offer even greater security and
reliability with full support of both
RIST and SRT. "
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