Differentiate your business from that of competitors by offering next-generation video services such as interactivity, time-shifted video, video-on-demand (VoD), and network personal video recorder (nPVR). Cisco helps define the IPTV experience with video headend solutions from Scientific Atlanta and the Cisco Content Delivery System (CDS) for interactive services.
Scientific Atlanta IPTV Headend Solution – A Scalable, Proven Solution
The Scientific Atlanta IPTV headend solution is intelligent, carrier-class, and highly available with a scalable architecture in which new media services can be added without a complete equipment upgrade.
The IPTV headend solution consists of:
Acquisition and conversion of video from a wide range of sources, including satellite, off-air, and fiber
Processing of video signals, including grooming, multiplexing, transrating, and advertising insertion
Encoding of video in MPEG4/H.264 format using advanced video compression technologies to deliver better picture quality while consuming less bandwidth
Management of the video headend with ROSA management system, offering fully redundant capabilities, status monitoring, and lights-out operation mode
SciCare integration, consulting, and support services for video headend deployment with more than 50 years of experience in the media industry
Cisco Content Delivery System
This intelligent, network-based platform allows carriers to deliver customized, interactive, and localized content for the full range of next-generation media applications, including VoD, nPVR, TV time-shifting, PEG channels, and targeted ad insertion.
