Imagine ICE Streaming System
MORE STREAMS. HIGHER QUALITY. LESS BANDWIDTH.
The future of TV viewing is no longer determined by the broadcasters. At home or on the go, the prevalence of desktops, laptops, mobile and wireless devices, Connected TVs, IP Set-top boxes and gaming consoles is leading a shift to a consumer-controlled PersonalizedTV® model that delivers video anytime, anywhere, to any device. Operators adapting to the new model need a product that gives subscribers the quality, choice, convenience and flexibility they demand today while remaining scalable for future Internet- and mobile-delivered content delivery models.
Imagine’s new ICE Streaming System is a software-based video processing architecture that allows operators to deliver the highest quality video service across multiple viewing devices with unmatched compression efficiency. A fully integrated, high-density solution, the ICE Streaming System boasts support for up to 1,000 stream-aligned multi-profile transcodes from a single carrier-class blade system platform. By leveraging the ICE Video Platform architecture, the ICE Streaming System combines leading picture quality and unlimited scalability with full support for integrated fragmentation, segmentation, encryption and HTTP Streaming, and provides a unified platform for all streaming video needs.
The blade-based ICE Streaming System offers:
- Unlimited profiles with guaranteed alignment to enable smoother profile switching to more device types
- Co-located or distributed multi-screen transcoding for optimal resource utilization across a wide array of network topologies
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Rack and power efficiency to allow more server resources to be packed into a small and tightly
integrated package - Integrated switching and Ethernet cabling efficiency to save rack space and power, and to reduce the number of required Ethernet cables by 97%
- Robust system redundancy provides operators with the highest level of operational confidence and allows them to deliver the best quality of experience to their customers
- SW‐application flexibility allows quick and easy upgrades to support future capabilities and requirements
