ActiVia for Media IP-BTV
Efficiently Deliver High-Quality Business Video
Competitive Edge Made Easy
Simply stated, enterprises with private Internet Protocol Business Television (IP-BTV) networks have an edge over the competition. Executives can speak to employees at any office location, at any time. The same network can be used for distance learning, human resources training, broadcast television and corporate communications. Corporate video doesn't need to be complicated, expensive, or a drain on your valuable IT and operational resources. With ActiVia for Media IP-BTV, businesses can take advantage of a private, rich-media video network.
Meet Mission-Critical Communication Needs
An IP-BTV network lets executives speak directly to employees, cutting through distance and layers of management, while ensuring real impact across the enterprise. Top-quality training modules can also be cost-effectively and reliably delivered to ensure all employees adhere to compliance regulations and ethics policies. All stakeholders will understand the company's vision, thereby improving employee morale and customer satisfaction.
- Distribute up-to-the-minute corporate information
- Broadcast special events, town hall meetings
- Improve HR information dissemination
- Implement more productive e-learning initiatives
- Track compliance training
- Reduce travel time and costs
An IP-BTV network solution allows enterprises to:
Comprehensive, Centralized Platform for Enterprise IP-BTV
ActiVia for Media IP-BTV is a highly optimized, web-accessible solution with powerful
management and content tools capable of scheduling, managing, and controlling
large enterprise IP-BTV networks of up to 100,000 concurrent devices,
including set-top boxes (STBs) and multipurpose PCs and servers used as IP-BTV
stations. ActiVia IP-BTV can control up to 100 independent enterprise live video
channels and an unlimited number of Video-on-Demand (VoD) channels.
ActiVia IP-BTV can also control video channels
with multiple independent audio channels,
providing multilingual support for global organizations.
This multi-channel, multi-language feature
gives the central system administrator the
ability to distribute a single, bandwidth-efficient
video layer while specifying which audio layer
applies to a target site or region.
How It Works
Based on the proven ActiVia platform, the IP-BTV edition is a fully managed system leveraging advanced IP-based networking. It runs over any combination of satellite, terrestrial WAN, wireless WAN or other IP-capable networks, providing multiple simultaneous data delivery streams over multi-path networks. STRATACACHE's award-winning OmniCast content delivery engine is utilized for reliable multicast distribution. The ActiVia solution automatically pre-populates video to disk-enabled STBs during non-peak hours, allowing full on-demand (PVR) content access via remote office users at any time. Additionally, the platform supports the latest MPEG-4 H.264 format and Windows Media codecs for exceptional video quality at low bandwidth rates.
ActiVia for Media IP-BTV consists of a "core" system, which is commonly located in the broadcast/production center of the network, and "player" devices, which reside in distributed locations across the network. Player devices can be one of several formats, including diskless or disk-based STBs, software player agents for existing PCs or server systems, media player devices driving LCD/plasma displays as digital signs, or other video access points within the customer network.
At the broadcast center, the ActiVia Content Management interface allows users
to ingest, store, index, search, and manage a large library of pre-produced content, determining what content needs to be distributed to particular players, groups, regions or business units, and automatically synchronizing collections of videos between "core" and "player" devices. The ActiVia scheduler and playlist generator schedules live events and automatically tunes remote media players to particular live channels at predetermined times of the day.
Additionally, the system includes a full reporting module (ActiVia Constellation Reporter), which provides a centralized reporting engine capable of rendering global, regional, local or individual player reports on status, media assigned, individual user sessions, etc. over the course of any defined or ad-hoc time period.
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