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Seans Media Builds India’s First
H.264-Based Cable Service with Envivio Video Head-End Compression
Solution
Advanced Digital Broadcast
June 20, 2010
Envivio’s Unique Technology Boosts Video Quality while Reducing
Bandwidth Overhead to Enable Addition of HD Channels and Expanded SD
Lineup
South San Francisco, CA – Envivio today announced that Seans Media—a
subsidiary of Aerolex Cablenet and a leading digital cable TV
service provider in Bangalore, India—has used an Envivio video
head-end to launch India’s first digital cable service featuring
high-efficiency H.264 video encoding. Compared to traditional
MPEG-2, the Envivio head-end reduces the amount of bandwidth Seans
Media needs to deliver each of its channels to subscribers, freeing
capacity for the service to expand its HD and SD channel lineup,
while maintaining the highest quality video to satisfy its
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“The Envivio head-end gives us a significant
competitive advantage,” said Pratap Wadhwa, managing director of
Seans Media. “Increasing the number and variety of channels we offer
is important for attracting and retaining subscribers. The excellent
video quality delivered by Envivio’s compression system ensures that
they love the way the service looks.”
Seans Media is able to deliver each channel
using as little as 1.6 Mbps without impacting video quality even for
demanding content like live sports channels thanks to the Envivio
video head-end. The all IP design of the Envivio system, along with
the ability to directly ingest baseband video, eliminates the need
for costly, quality-impacting interfaces. The solution also provides
Seans Media with the flexibility to adapt to future requirements.
Envivio encoders support all Three Screens of consumer video—TVs,
PCs and mobile devices—from a single platform with the ability to
take multiple channels of content and encode them simultaneously to
deliver multiple mobile TV profiles, multiple Internet TV profiles,
or SD and HD IPTV profiles.
“Seans
Media has made an important investment in customer satisfaction,”
said Envivio President and CEO Julien Signčs, “ensuring that they
will deliver the variety of entertainment its customers want while
ensuring outstanding picture quality for both its SD and HD
channels. The Envivio head-end addresses their current goals while
providing a solid foundation for the introduction of exciting new
services in the future.”
Envivio head-end solutions provide cable
operators with the flexibility and capability they need to compete
in an increasingly diverse marketplace. Advanced compression
liberates bandwidth, enabling operators to increase the variety of
HD and SD channels they deliver over their existing network
infrastructure. Envivio Convergence head-ends are a solid foundation
for expansion, providing support for delivery of high quality video
to mobile phone and Internet-connected devices.
For more information about Envivio solutions for Three Screens,
visit Envivio on Stand 3G1-01 in the French Pavilion at CommunicAsia
2010 in Singapore, or on our website
http://www.envivio.com/ThreeScreens.
About Envivio
Envivio makes the world’s video content
universally enjoyable by all viewers, on any device, across any
network, at any time. Now in its second decade as a respected leader
in the development of video convergence solutions, Envivio has
amassed dozens of patents, pioneered video-over-IP methods, and
continually led with support for emerging technology. Today Envivio
solutions deliver millions of content streams to hundreds of
different styles of mobile phones, set top boxes, and PC platforms,
on behalf of content owners, telecom operators, cable and satellite
companies and mobile service providers in every market in the world.
Deployment and support are backed by a global staff that is familiar
with local technical, regulatory and market guidelines encountered
around the world. Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco,
California and has offices in Rennes, France; New York, New York;
London, England; Beijing, China; Singapore and Tokyo, Japan.
Envivio is a registered trademark of Envivio
Inc. All trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the
properties of their respective companies.
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