NAB Product News
Envivio intros Convergence Encoder with Support for all three screens of consumer video
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Apr 10, 2008 - 11:12:32 AM

Envivio booth: SU13205

Envivio Inc., the technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, 4Caster C4 convergence encoding system is the world’s first to provide video compression for all three screens of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile devices – on a single platform. Designed to enable fixed line and mobile network operators to deliver content simultaneously across the full range of consumer devices, the C4 platform is able 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.

This new release of the 4Caster C4 adds support for high definition encoding, as well as 3GPP and 3GPP2 mobile streaming profiles for unicast mobile TV. These new features join the product’s existing support for quad channel standard definition encoding for IPTV and quad channel VGA and QVGA encoding for Internet TV. Having all compression operations performed by a single, flexible encoding platform offers operators significant capital savings and operational efficiencies.

“Consumer demands and operators’ requirements are expanding constantly,” said Julien Signès, President and CEO of Envivio, “The C4 encoder provides operators with a compression platform that delivers a full range of services today, but which is also flexible enough to accommodate these changing requirements in the future.. Our unique Intel-based architecture enables us to evolve our product features and compression performance rapidly to ensure that Envivio, and our customers, stay ahead of the competition”.

The 4Caster C4 is a high-availability hardware platform with an ultra-flexible embedded software encoding core that enables customers to alter the compression capabilities of the encoder as needed with a simple software license key. This unique compression architecture offers levels of service flexibility and encoding performance upgradeability not possible with traditional hardware-only encoding platforms. Encoding performance can be upgraded with each software release without the need to buy and install new hardware. New services, features and device profiles can be added with simple software upgrades. Operators can even entirely transform an encoder’s usage, effortlessly changing resolutions, codecs and bandwidths without the need for a hardware change.