How to Empower and Bridge Yesterday's Networks with Modern Streaming?
Mediathand’s platform adapts content for television, video-on-demand, and event streaming, catering to any scale, location, time, network, and audience. Powered by patented technology, our platform has been refined over a decade, proven effective in installations worldwide.
Enhancing Interoperability Between Modern Consumption and Legacy Networks
Today, more consumers prefer the OTT TV or VOD experience to broadcasting. Consumers don’t care about network technology, consumers expect being able to watch any content in highest immersive AV quality, anywhere, anytime, any device when pressing “play”. So far, VOD players has for years set the bar for highest immersive AV quality.
The standard broadcast associations in Europe (DVB) and US (ATSC3, NAB) are with moderate success trying to make broadcast technology catch up with OTT, promoting new standards, new technologies, new CPE specifications. While they are struggling with interoperability, legacy systems, and legacy CPE support, and consumer acceptance. It’s still unclear, when, or if, these efforts will reach consumers and if they will be able to match the OTT experience (when it is best), and if it will reach the market in due time?
In any case a mediathand solution supports all IP delivery networks and consumer devices (CPE) out of the box or via LEAF™ Smart Home Media Gateway. Connected directly to the consumer’s in-home router, it binds together all incoming multicast/unicast/broadcast streams and redistributes them in the home as completely standard, secure, reliable, high AV quality unicast streams. Integrating these streams into existing apps or STBs is trivial and maintains full operator security, insight, and control (with or without STBs) - without compromising GDPR compliance.
Our technology allows us to use and fuse any network technology as e.g. fibre, cable, internet, ATSC 1.0, ATSC 3.0, DVB-T2, DVB-X2, DVB-NIP, ISDB-T, TV 3.0 even 4G and 5G MBS/ 5G Broadcast as a unified heterogeneous All-IP network infrastructure.
By enabling smart distribution of TV, video, and data at unprecedented scale, we reduce the network load. This leaves more room for “normal” internet traffic and provides room for extra high AV quality, QoS and stability for a premium user experience on any screen. The backend systems to manage the advanced multicast- and unicast streaming, are provided by mediathand and can often be integrated on prem or in cloud to customers’ existing platform.
How mediathand's Technology Stands Out
In today's landscape, delivering seamless streaming experiences while navigating network congestion, data integrity, and system compatibility challenges is paramount. Here's how mediathand stands out:
- Multicast ABR Optimization: Streamlining complex multicast ABR technology to efficiently reduce concurrent unicast streams, enhancing scalability and manageability.
- Ultra-Low Latency: Achieving glass-to-glass latency as low as 2-3 seconds, surpassing traditional broadcast standards.
- Integration of QUIC Protocol: Boosting performance and security through QUIC protocol adoption.
- Forward Error Correction (FEC): Implementing leading FEC technology to bolster stability and reliability.
- Premium AV Quality: Combining multicast, QUIC, and FEC to deliver higher bitrates and premium viewing experiences consistently.
- Ultra-High Quality of Service (QoS): Ensuring stable user experiences with innovative multicast, QUIC, and FEC implementations.
- LEAF Smart Home Integration: Seamlessly transforming incoming streams into standard unicast streams compatible with any screen or device, simplifying accessibility.
- Standard-Compliant Framework: Providing a robust framework for strictly standard-compliant video streaming, enhancing media player performance and stability.
- Proactive Network Management: Intelligent communication with distribution systems to preemptively prevent and manage network issues, minimizing disruptions and player crashes.
The platform is essential in all of mediathand's solutions. Different experiments are presented on our Demo Page and selected business cases are presented on ourcase studies page.
Contact us today to learn media ore about how our platform can help your company succeed in whatever media challenge. Together, let's shape tomorrow's landscape.