SimpleStream Poised to Grow Channels with New, Flexible Platform
Bespoke OTT streaming solutions provider scales its business with Garland Partners
London(19 Mar 2013)
SimpleStream’s headends have been upgraded to use expandable and redundant solutions from Teracue and Allegro provided by Garland Partners. Teracue provides the DVB-IP gateway technology and Allegro provides the high-density IP transcoding platform.
“SimpleStream is using the Teracue DMM gateways, with each 4RU chassis fully populated with 8 x DMM-140-S2 blades to receive multiple satellite channels and turn them around into IP streams,” states Lorna Garrett, Director of Garland Partners. “Clusters of Allegro AL2400 IP transcoders take in the multiple channels and transcodes them into multiple formats at multiple bitrates for high-quality, OTT delivery services that then target many different end platforms, including PCs, TVs, tablets, and smartphones.”
Garrett explains this was the perfect solution to match SimpleStream’s growth: “As their satellite channel and live streaming offerings grow, they simply add Teracue DMM-140 blades for more ingest of satellite channels, and then increase the number of Allegro AL2400 transcoding modules (up to six) in the same 1RU chassis to carry out more channels of transcoding.”
“We are using broadcast-quality solutions for resilience and improvement of channel density,” said Adam Smith, Founder and CEO of SimpleStream. “The headend from Teracue is more cost effective for DVB-S2 to IP conversion. No decoding and re-encoding of the satellite signal is needed so quality is preserved. The high-quality, high-density Allegro platform is perfect for IP transcoding to multiple formats and is fully integrated with our cloud-based Media Manager software using the HTTP API. We are pleased to have been able to work with Garland Partners on this solution. They have given us great technical and commercial support.”
Garland Partners will be exhibiting at the TV Connect show running from the 19th to 21st of March at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London.
Contact:
Lorna Garrett, Director
Garland Partners Limited
Tel: +44(0)24 7610 2020
E-mail: lorna@gpl-uk.co.uk
About Garland Partners Limited
Garland Partners Limited (GPL) 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 GPL’s strength is its flexibility in matching the right technology to client needs. For more information, visit GPL at www.gpl-uk.co.uk.
About SimpleStream
SimpleStream, founded in early 2010, has grown to become a leading provider of bespoke over-the-top (OTT) video services to broadcast and media companies. Their industry-leading Catchup TV solution leverages existing broadcast systems to create broadcast-quality video-on-demand assets from any live feed using an intuitive web-based control panel with a rapid turnaround time of less than one minute. SimpleStream’s products and services simplify the operation of cross-platform online video services in a cost-effective manner and are used across the sport, music, entertainment, and teleshopping sectors. Further information about SimpleStream is available at www.simplestream.com or by request to press@simplestream.com.
About Teracue AG
Teracue AG - Broadcast & IPTV Systems was established in 1991 and manufactures video processing solutions for IPTV, video-networking and streaming. Teracue provides encoder, decoder, transcoder, stream-viewing/recording, as well as DVB-TV gateway and IPTV headend products: used mainly in broadcast and contribution networks, inside playout facilities, for healthcare and medical applications, for corporate and digital business TV, in universities and schools for education and training, inside fire/police centres, control rooms, aerospace companies, military and federal organisations for archiving, monitoring and debriefing. Teracue IPTV products enable professional system integrators to build robust, comprehensive end-to-end IP video systems. More information is available at www.teracue.com.
About Allegro
Allegro DVT is a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC|SVC|MVC and HEVC/H.265 solutions, including industry-standard compliance test suites, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC/H.265 encoder, codec and decoder hardware (RTL) IPs; and, multiscreen encoders and transcoders. Allegro DVT products have been chosen by more than 100 major IC providers, OEMs and broadcasters. www.allegrodvt.com
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