
Envivio Begins Shipping New Mobile TV Configuration of 4Caster C4 Encoder
Leading Mobile Network Operators and Content Aggregators Use 4Caster C4 To Launch New and Upgrade Existing Mobile TV Services
December 17, 2008 South San Francisco, CA.– Envivio Inc., the
leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions
from mobile to HD, today announced that the new Mobile TV configuration
of its 4Caster C4 three screens encoder has successfully entered
service with several mobile network operators and content aggregators
around the world. Recently awarded the prestigious 2008 TelcoTV Vision
Award, the Envivio 4Caster C4 simultaneously delivers four channels of
video to up to 32 different mobile TV profiles, providing a solid
compression platform for operators launching new services or upgrading
early generation services based on software encoding platforms.
"As early generation encoding products, particularly software
encoders, reach their limits or end of life, service providers are
looking for a more substantial, mission-critical grade platform on
which to operate their mobile TV services," said Julien Signès,
President and CEO of Envivio. "With its high performance hardware
foundation and future-proof, flexible software compression core, the
4Caster C4 enables operators to meet today's requirements and plan
effectively for future needs."
The 4Caster C4 convergence encoding platform is the world’s first
to provide video compression for all Three Screens of consumer video –
TVs, PCs and mobile devices – from a single platform. Designed to
enable fixed line and mobile network operators to deliver content
simultaneously across the full range of consumer devices, the 4Caster
C4 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. The 4Caster C4
supports digital, analog and MPEG-2 Transport Stream over IP inputs as
well as a range of video and audio encoding options to enable efficient
delivery of content to the Three Screens.
Envivio's unique high-availability hardware platform combined with
an embedded software encoding core offers levels of service flexibility
and encoding performance upgradeability not possible with traditional
hardware-only compression platforms. Encoding performance can be
upgraded with each software release. New services and features can be
added in the same way.
The 4Caster C4 Mobile TV configuration is shipping today and is
available through Envivio representatives worldwide.
About Envivio Inc. - Envivio Inc. is the leading technology provider of IP video
convergence encoding solutions for telcos and broadcasters. Envivio is
the only company to offer convergence solutions supporting the “Three
Screens” of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile phones – making IP
video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device
from mobile to HD. Envivio solutions deliver industry leading AVC
(H.264), AVS, and Windows Media Video (VC-1) compressed video quality
at the lowest bit rate for mobile TV, Internet TV, IPTV, and broadcast
applications. Service providers worldwide use Envivio solutions to
reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers the most
compelling and highest quality video services anytime and anywhere.
Visit www.envivio.com for more information.
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