Imagine Broadcast Grooming Solutions
MORE HD OVER LESS BANDWIDTH
High-quality HD programing choices are quickly transforming from a luxury in U.S. households to an expected commodity. Operators face the challenge of making more room on their delivery infrastructure for HD while continuing to support and grow existing services like telephony and high speed data. But investments in plant upgrades are expensive and time-consuming, so a solution that maximizes the efficiency of existing distribution networks without sacrificing consumers’ quality of experience would be ideal.
The Imagine ICE Broadcast System is the perfect cornerstone of a system operator’s bandwidth optimization strategy, offering a cost-effective way to add services and reclaim bandwidth, along with rapid deployment and seamless introduction into existing infrastructure.
The ICE Broadcast System includes:
- Multi-codec video transcoding to adapt source streams for exact requirements of linear and switched digital broadcast systems
- VBR Statistical Multiplexing for best picture quality and bandwidth efficiency
- CBR Coding and Clamping to support switched digital broadcast
- Quality and Compression Analysis tools to determine optimal channel line-ups
- Multiple platforms that provide options for both high-density and carrier-class service reliability
- ICE Illustrate® to correct for lost detail and contrast while maximizing image clarity
- ICE-VQA for 24/7/365 monitoring of delivered video quality
The ICE Broadcast System’s core technology is reliable, flexible and scalable. Newly-introduced version 4.0 offers a smooth path from today’s traditional broadcast applications to tomorrow’s Internet and mobile services.
Solution Components
- Acquisition: Programs are sourced from satellite, over-the-air broadcast or direct fiber connections
- Video Processing: Ensuring the highest quality at any rate
- Multiplexing: Grooming desired output multiplexes from hundreds or thousands of source streams
- Redundancy: Live programming cannot go down; these systems must include the highest degree of source, platform and output service redundancy
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Monitoring: Ensure that the systems are 100% on-line, all the time and provide actionable data to diagnose any source of service disruption
