Video Quality and Flexibility Power Envivio’s IBC 2010 Three Screen Demos, Drive TV without Boundaries

Envivio, the leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen video processing solutions, will highlight the latest versions of its enhanced Three Screen video headends at IBC 2010, Stand 1.D72, including live demonstrations of complete, ready-to-deploy solutions for delivering live and on-demand services over mobile, IPTV and Internet. Envivio will showcase the compelling solutions that are driving growth for TV service providers, including a demonstration of full HD 3D TV using MVC encoding, advanced network-based On Demand applications, and feature-rich over the top delivery of premium content.

“Delivering content over a variety of networks to multiple screens is just the first step toward building services that consumer value,” said Boris Felts, VP of marketing at Envivio. “Envivio is showing IBC visitors how to apply the excellent video quality and industry-leading efficiency of our headends to create engaging services that are optimized for each delivery method. Only Envivio meets every requirement from a single encoding platform, meaning that service providers can easily adapt their existing infrastructure as needed to take advantage of growth and revenue opportunity.”

Among the highlights visitors will experience in IBC Stand 1.D72 are:

New 4Caster™ C42 upgrade A significant firmware upgrade for Envivio’s Three Screens video encoder, this is the industry’s first broadcast-class encoding solution to unify support for the leading IPTV, Mobile and Internet TV video formats into a single software platform. This upgrade will have particular impact on:

1) Service providers: A unified platform enables service providers to streamline their headend operations by pre-processing a source once, rather than multiple times based on the number of services they deliver.

2) Content providers: Now a single encoder can optimize streams for multiple target delivery platforms, instead of needing separate encoders for each target platform.

Multi-screen headend demonstration Envivio’s comprehensive headend demonstration will illustrate delivery of top quality video services to multiple screens simultaneously, including:

1) IPTV using Envivio Extreme™ H.264 compression to deliver high quality HD video below 4 Mbps, giving service providers the flexibility to add more HD channels, increase the quality of their premium HD services, and/or to extend the reach of their network to make service available to more subscribers over greater distances.

2) Over the Top content distribution enabling premium TV services delivered over the Internet via existing broadband networks. Sophisticated features including Envivio Extreme™ compression and support for the latest adaptive streaming technologies including Adobe Flash, Apple HTTP Live Streaming and Microsoft Silverlight ensure consistent delivery and excellent quality of experience on all of today’s most popular devices. Full compatibility with leading CDN providers and DRM platforms, as well support for ad insertion, creates a complete solution for ensuring revenue-generation.

3) Mobile TV using all broadcast standards as well streaming live and on demand video over 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi networks to the latest generation iPhone and iPad, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices.

Envivio On Demand
Envivio’s network-based On Demand solution enables operators to turn any content recorded by a subscriber, on their PVR, into assets for subsequent delivery to the subscriber’s mobile and PC screens. Installed entirely within the network at the headend, Envivio On Demand adds no consumer premise costs for operators and fully integrates with existing content management systems. Envivio On Demand takes full advantage of Envivio Three Screens encoders to deliver the best video quality possible over networks that lack QoS.

3D Stereoscopic TV using AVC and MVC Compression
Envivio 4Caster C42 has the flexible and performance to support advances such as frame compatible AVC or Service compatible MVC encoding of 3D stereoscopic video. Envivio will showcase the delivery of full 1080p 3D MVC streams, providing the highest quality 3D viewing experience on 3DTV.

Envivio Powers Innovation throughout IBC
Envivio solutions will be used throughout the IBC show floor to power unique content delivery demonstrations from some of the leading names in the industry, including: Airties Wireless Networks (5.B41), Ericsson (1.D61), Microsoft (Topaz Lounge), Netgem (9.405), ST Micro (1.E36), Teamcast (2.B51) and Verimatrix (4.B84). For more information about Envivio’s Three Screens solutions, please visit our website www.envivio.com.