Vantrix, a global provider of media delivery solutions to service and content providers, partners Kontron, a global leader of telecom, network and cloud infrastructure platform solutions, releasing two new high performance transcoding products – Vantrix’s Multiscreen Live Transcoder and VoD (Video-on-Demand) Transcoder. The transcoding solution that operates on a open source cloud computing software, Openstack with 4k UHD and Adaptive Bitrate delivery ABR) capabilities enables service providers and high volume content providers to provide support for multiple device screen formats ranging from connected TVs to computers to mobile handsets.
Vantrix performance testing yielded up to 180 live 1080p HD video streams or up to 10x real-time VoD HD offline transcoding per file. In addition, it can also deliver up to 18 4k@60p live streams and is HEVC-ready, said Vantrix. It added that a single appliance can run concurrent applications – such as Live and VoD transcoding, DRM encryption, and streaming – with selectable resource assignments for different uses.
“The processing density of these appliances is impressive”, states Don Vendetti, Vantrix’s SVP of Marketing and Product Management. “The Kontron SYMKLOUD with Intel® processors enables us to demonstrate a significant volume of live streams or simultaneous transcoding operations to support ABR, 4K and even HEVC, all in a compact 2RU package. Additionally, it allows us to reduce the typical cost of live and VoD transcoding by 25% or more.”
- Don Vendetti, SVP of MArketing and Product Management, Vantrix
Kontron’s Sven Freudenfeld, Business Development Telecom-Cloud, adds “The density increase provided by our SYMKLOUD appliance is a perfect match for the Vantrix transcoding application and provides a major reduction in needed footprint, CAPEX and OPEX for service providers. In addition, the power requirements are slashed to just 6 watts per HD channel. The Vantrix virtual appliance also supports high scalability for large mobile broadcast events, such as live sports.”
- Sven Freudenfeld, Business Development TelecomCloud, Kontron
“Vantrix used the Intel® Media Software Development Kit to quickly build and optimize for Intel®Iris™ Pro graphics hardware, which is part of the 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors.”, said Bill Rollender, marketing director, Intel Communications Infrastructure Division. “High density, low power transcoding is ever more critical for content providers to address the explosion of devices in the market. Ease of management of these transcoding resources will be a key requirement for these providers.”
- Bill Rollender, Marketing Director, Intella
