May
19

IPTV Lab upgrade

BCi adds EPG & Logo overlay functionality

Our engineers have recently completed the commissioning of a Thales ‘Jade’ unit and a Thales ‘Crystal’ unit. The Jade server can generate an EPG for any kind of architecture, including small or large head ends. It can provide national or regional program guides using advanced DVB-SI capabilities such as triggering, automatic bandwidth management, multi-route capabilities, and more.

The Crystal DTV logo inserter performs advanced video processing directly in the MPEG2 compressed domain completely avoiding the costly decoding/recoding process, thus preserving both video quality and customer investment.

The addition of these elements provides a suite of test options for complete ecosystems down to individual components.

BCi provides a range of IPTV test, architecture and integration solutions to Operators and Vendors. For more information please contact Mark Hooper on +447968 582391.

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Mar
20

Sun Based Video Pump

BCi continues to invest in its Southampton Lab by adding 4 x 1 GigE network cards to one of the Sun servers. The Lab provides a representative broadcast eco-system to support development and testing of IPTV and VoD components and systems. The addition of these cards allows us to present in excess of 3000 concurrent video streams. This is particularly important to create appropriate test conditions for Edge QAMs, Conditional Access kit, rate shapers or SRM’s (Session Resource Managers). It perfectly compliments our RTSP test client as they will form a very effective pair for cost effective capacity testing.

This upgrade forms part of a larger investment BCi are making in the Lab. These changes will further our growth into the IPTV/VoD Consultancy and System Integration support services. In particular it will broaden our Test services and allow clients to ’stress test’ components and systems prior to launch.

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