AvediaStream chassis and blades offer a modular, high-availability, energy-efficient head-end system for delivering TV and video over building and campus LANs
London, 1st July 2009: Exterity, the building IPTV specialist, today launched the AvediaStream product line to help organisations in every industry better leverage TV and video as a vital business tool. Building IPTV delivers TV and video content over a building or campus IP network (LAN), without the expense of a separate analogue cabling system. The AvediaStream family of chassis and blades make it easier than ever before to inject content from TV, cable and satellite channels or other video sources such as DVD/Blu-ray players into the network as standard MPEG streams. These can be managed just like other IP services and delivered to standard TVs, AV displays, or user PCs.
Due to its superior scalability and picture quality, combined with lower capital and operating expenses, building IPTV is rapidly displacing traditional analogue methods in a wide range of industries such as hospitality, healthcare, general corporate, education, transport and sporting venues. This has triggered a demand for head-end solutions (the source of TV and video content for the network) that are more flexible and energy-efficient and consume less valuable IT rack space. Representing the company’s third generation of head-end systems, AvediaStream comprises a set of chassis and hot-swappable blades that give organisations flexible, resilient, and energy-efficient access to virtually any kind of TV or video content for their IPTV network.
“AvediaStream’s blade-chassis format not only means tremendous flexibility for customers,” says Colin Farquhar, CEO of Exterity, “they also have the ability to add TV and video sources on their own schedule and budget, without even needing to power-down the system. It also uses a fraction of the space, power, and cooling wattage of competing PC-based solutions, with higher reliability. With AvediaStream, organisations can future-proof their building IPTV solution and be assured that they’ll be able to cost-effectively scale it to respond to competitive challenges and changing needs.”
AvediaStream blades are available in many different configurations. These include TVgateways that can stream multiple TV channels onto the network for a lower cost and power/space/cooling consumption per channel than competing single-channel encoder products; and encoders, which stream the output from various video devices such as DVD/Blu-ray players, digital video cameras, and even set-top boxes for premium TV channels.
The AvediaStream family offers three different chassis designed for a wide range of organisational needs and budgets. All chassis are hot-swap enabled, and the flagship model, with 10 slots, offers redundant power supplies and hot-swappable fans for even higher reliability.
Other products in Exterity’s end-to-end building IPTV solution include:
• IPTV Receivers, which make TV and video channels available to standard TVs and AV displays, and can also supply Internet access and IP phone support
• Avedia PC clients, which enable users to watch or record TV and video channel on their personal computers
• AvediaServer, a video storage appliance that delivers video-on-demand (VoD), scheduled video, and video recording, plus a customised user interface presenting consistent, organisation-branded access to all TV and video channels on the network
• IPTV Manager, which gives administrators centralised control of TV and video content, down to individual displays