
Envivio Encoder Trade-Up Program for Operators in Mobile TV
Substantial Discounts Offered to Operators Switching from Software Encoders to Envivio Carrier-Grade Hardware Encoding Platforms
February 12, 2009 – Envivio Inc., the
leading provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, launches
a new Mobile Streaming Trade-Up Program aimed at helping companies who
pioneered mobile video streaming deliver more successful mobile TV services.
From now through May 31, 2009, Envivio is offering discounts of up to 35
percent to mobile operators, content aggregators and others who replace their
existing software video encoders, such as Helix Mobile Producer and pvAuthor,
with the award-winning Envivio 4Caster C4 hardware encoding platform.
Envivio
mobile streaming encoders power hundreds of mobile TV deployments around the
world. The Mobile Streaming Trade-Up
Program offers users of early generation Envivio software encoding products, as
well as software encoders from other suppliers, significant discounts off the
4Caster C4 hardware encoder. 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. The 4Caster C4 will support all of Envivio’s new
mobile TV compression quality enhancements such as the recently announced
Extreme Compression.
"Overwhelming
market evidence shows that there is very strong consumer demand for mobile TV
services," said Rudi Polednik, VP Marketing and Global Alliances at Envivio, "but
that many of today's implementations are failing to deliver the quality of
experience subscribers expect. This is not surprising given that most of those
services are still being delivered using unreliable PC platforms loaded
with obsolete software
whose performance has not been upgraded for years. There is a way forward. Envivio has firsthand
experience transforming under-performing early mobile TV deployments into
winning businesses and its hardware encoding platforms now power many of the world’s
most successful mobile TV services. This
program is an opportunity for operators to benefit from that experience, which
begins with a carrier grade video headend capable of delivering the compression
performance, platform stability and five nines service availability needed to
attract and retain premium subscribers."
Designed
to enable 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. Envivio's unique high-availability hardware
platform combined with a flexible encoding core offers levels of service
extensibility and encoding performance upgradeability not possible with alternative
compression platforms.
The
Envivio Convergence Headend brings together the 4Caster C4 with the Envivio
4Manager headend management system in an M:N automatic redundancy configuration
that delivers carrier grade service availability. This transforms mobile TV into a full-fledged
service offering, delivered using a professional headend infrastructure similar
to that used by cable and satellite operators to provide video services to
their subscribers.
The
mobile streaming trade-up program is available immediately. Envivio also plans
to make the program available through its extensive network of mobile TV
integration partners.
About Envivio Inc. - Envivio
Inc. is the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding
solutions for telcos, enterprises, 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, Windows Media Video (VC-1) and AVS compressed video quality at the
lowest bit rate for IPTV, Internet TV, mobile TV 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.
Envivio is a
registered trademark of Envivio Inc. All
trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of their
respective companies.
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