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Broadpeak mABR Solution Optimizes
Live Sports OTT Delivery in Italy
Multicast ABR Solution ensures a superior quality of experience
for Italian telco operator TIM's users...
roadpeak®, a leading provider of
content delivery network (CDN)
and video streaming solutions for
content providers and pay-TV operators
worldwide, together with Italian
telco operator TIM, is optimizing live
sports OTT delivery with an advanced
multicast ABR (mABR) solution from
Broadpeak. Using Broadpeak's mABR
solution, TIM is delivering live thirdparty
B
sports
content to
subscribers
with an improved quality of experience
(QoE).
" Thanks to Broadpeak's mABR
solution, which optimizes network
performance for streaming services,
we provide the best technology for
assuring an excellent customer quality
of experience, " said Crescenzo Micheli,
Head of Technology and Innovation
at TIM. " As a pioneer of multicast
ABR technology, Broadpeak has
solid experience and a reputation for
delivering superior-quality live OTT
content. "
Broadpeak's mABR solution includes
the BkE200 transcaster server,
nanoCDN™ agent, SmartLib library,
BkM100 video delivery mediator,
BkA100 analytics, and BkA200 video
delivery monitoring. The BkE200
transcaster server pulls source ABR
streams
and
multicast,
embeds
them
into
reducing delivery costs
while also solving scalability and
potential quality issues.
" Streaming quality must be
perfect in order to better enjoy OTT
content, thanks to ultra-broadband
connections, " said Jacques Le
Mancq pictured, President and CEO at
Broadpeak. " TIM is leading the way
for premium OTT delivery with our
mABR solution, which will support live
OTT delivery on smart TVs and other
connected devices. "
CVE, the prime contractor, ensured
a smooth deployment, providing
outstanding coordination and local
support.
" This project is significant for CVE
because we've invested heavily in
video-over-IP
technology throughout
the years, " said Luca Catalano, CEO
at CVE. " CVE is happy to be an
active part of the delivery of the
mABR solution available for
CDNs. This is an important
milestone for the transition
of the video world toward
IP, and we're proud that our
IP knowledge and expertise made
such a big, positive contribution to
the deployment of the Broadpeak
mABR solution. "
https://broadpeak.tv
Actus welcomes Keith DesRosiers
Actus Enters 2022 with new product features and the monitoring
and compliance-logging industry's top Solutions Engineer...
ctus Digital continued its
incredible growth in 2021, thanks
to the ongoing trust and confidence of
both their existing and new customers.
Actus kept growth and investment
in the engineering of the solutions.
As part of this growth, Actus have
announced that Keith DesRosiers
pictured has joined the company as VP
of Solutions Engineering.
A
DesRosiers' expertise with Actus
Digital's core competencies, integrated
AI, cloud/hybrid architectures, and
linear broadcast MAM workflows
will help customers appreciate the
affordable options Actus offers
for solving complex media-related
technical challenges and improving
efficiency with greater consistency and
quality.
Going far beyond compliance
and engineering use cases
While other companies focus on
compliance and technical monitoring
only, Actus think this is not enough,
continuing to expand their platform
with solutions that are outside of
the typical compliance logging and
engineering use cases.
LMAM - MAM for linear broadcast
at a fraction of the cost
Actus
software
enables
with
rich
metadata
using
features
already engrained into the Actus
solution. A couple of prime examples:
media
monitoring and MAM-like workflows.
By using the Actus's LMAM and AI,
customers can generate additional
levels of metadata that includes
Speech to text, Facial
Recognition,
OCR,
object
detection and more. This
additional metadata is
timestamped, associated
with the original recorded
video, and fully searchable
within the Actus solution. The Actus
Platform can unite the additional
metadata with the existing files in the
customers' existing MAM to enrich the
existing assets.
Actus customers can leverage the
power of recorded video integrated
Actus Clip Factory PRO - Advanced
content re-purposing, simple & fast
Clip Factory Pro (CF PRO) allows
to quickly repurpose video to VOD,
OTT, Web and social. It provides
advanced editing options and profiles
selection to speed up the work, helping
broadcasters to beat their competitors
to digital by using Actus Clip
Factory Pro.
More Compliance
and Technical
Monitoring options
A prime example is the Actus
Multiviewer that alerts on anything
that threatens regulatory compliance
(like missing captions and CALM
Act or loudness violations), but also
on quality issues (such as frozen or
missing video, audio that is too loud,
or too low or missing, pixelized video
or color-bars, etc). More and more
customers are having Actus build them
systems where they are probing many
points in a video-supply chain. One of
the unique options is the new Synchro
that organizes any channel being
monitored at more than one probe
point, or in the case of OTT, where they
are distributing multiple renditions per
OTT stream.
Synchro allows Actus users to press
a button to display a multiviewer
logically organized to show all of the
various versions, highlighting any that
are in fault or have violated the alertparameters
set up for them.
https://www.actusdigital.com
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