Arqiva keeps viewers connected with Media Excel encoders
HERO encoding platform forms part of Arqiva’s latest IP streaming solution
Warwickshire UK(09 Sep 2015)
Leading communications infrastructure company, Arqiva, has selected Media Excel’s HERO encoders, through Garland Partners, to support its IP streaming solution.
Arqiva required a flexible and robust IP streaming platform that would deliver a broadcast-quality service at a competitive cost per channel. The Garland team worked closely with Arqiva to supply the best solution.
Forming part of the Arqiva IP streaming solution, the Media Excel HERO encoders provide high-quality encoding and transcoding with superior density, and best-in-class management features. The Media Excel HERO encoders will encode a variety of TV sources and output them as Microsoft Smooth Streaming video, while embedding time-sensitive data into all output streams. The data can then be used downstream on the player side, to reference the streams against an EPG or Live to VoD workflow, via unified streaming services. Media Excel also helped Arqiva to develop customer interfaces (APIs) to ease the integration of the encoder with the different elements of the IP streaming solution.
Arqiva’s IP streaming solution can be easily integrated into its media management and occasional use service, so broadcasters can either deliver the content direct to its consumers, or use the solution as a confidence feed to securely monitor existing services, to ensure a high quality managed service. Additionally with the Media Excel solution, Arqiva now has the functionality to build and virtualise real-time ‘Live to VoD services’, plus layer in advanced quality-of-service and monitoring features to give its customers new commercial models and greater consumer reach.
Alex Pannell, Media Services Director at Arqiva, said: “Garland Partners with its Media Excel offer has enabled Arqiva to deliver a high-quality IP streaming solution, which will ensure our customers are able to provide a consistently great user experience, thanks to the exceptional standard of monitoring and quality of service that the encoders provide. We found Garland to be extremely responsive and effective due to their expertise and understanding of our business aims.”
Media Excel’s HERO is a multi-format, scalable transcoding platform that combines the ability to do live and file-based workflows in the same platform. Coupled with powerful management and redundancy systems, it provides the flexibility, density and high-quality transcoding required by today’s media companies.
About Garland Partners Limited
Garland Partners Limited is an established UK company working with leading suppliers of digital video streaming and IPTV solutions to deliver professional, end-to-end systems for many applications, including Internet TV, mobile TV, IPTV, and broadcast services. The company focuses on meeting customers’ system requirements, providing a full package of technical and commercial support with the best available products. Customers range in size and application, and Garland’s strength is its flexibility in matching the right technology to client needs. For more information, visit Garland at www.gpl-uk.co.uk.
Contact:
Lorna Garrett, Director, Garland Partners Limited
Tel: +44(0)24 7610 2020 E-mail: Lorna@gpl-uk.co.uk
About Arqiva:
Arqiva provides innovative and secure communications and broadcast technology. We’re extending the reach of mobile communications, shaping the future of broadcast, liberating WiFi for brand owners and unlocking the potential of the Internet of Things. Customers include: major UK and international broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV, Turner Broadcasting, Sky plc and the independent radio groups; major telco providers including the UK's four mobile network operators; retail, leisure, energy and water companies.
For more information, news and insights from Arqiva, please visit the website www.arqiva.com