IBC Show Previews V – W
Vantiva – Stand 1.C30
Vantiva has announced the launch of its new generation of software services under the NaviGate Suite at IBC 2023. This NaviGate Suite focuses on bringing added value to Network Service Providers (NSPs) and TV operators while improving the consumer experience. The NaviGate Suite features three services: NaviGate IQ, NaviGate 5G and NaviGate Companion. NaviGate IQ provides operators with advanced data analytics and machine learning to improve set-top box (STB) performance and offer upgraded and tailored services. NaviGate 5G and NaviGate Companion offer a range of white-labeled iOS/Android tools for broadband, from 5G signal optimization to managing and accessing gateways from anywhere.
- NaviGate IQ: Provides operators with valuable insights into their Android TV subscribers’ video service consumption. It is designed to be used on a Vantiva STB as well as a competitor’s hardware. It is a lightweight monitoring agent running on subscribers’ STB. NaviGate IQ allows operators to understand how the end-user is consuming content and using applications with the goal of providing a better experience and tailored services. On the back end, NaviGate IQ takes advantage of machine learning to detect anomalies at the earliest stages, accelerating root cause analysis and proactive corrections to preserve customer experience. NaviGate IQ has the capability to identify and inform the operator of rogue and pirated content consumption, preventing loss of revenue for operators.
- NaviGate 5G: Supporting Vantiva’s 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) gateways, the NaviGate 5G is a white-labeled application for both iOS and Android mobile devices that helps consumers locate the best 5G reception “sweet spot” in their home. NaviGate 5G helps the end-user set up and position the FWA gateway to maximize performance. The app also runs signal strength and speed tests, providing users with the most accurate data to confirm its correct installation. It enables and secures the quality of end-user self-service installation, reducing inbound technical support calls and the costs of truck rolls.
- NaviGate Companion: For broadband operators, NaviGate Companion is a white-labeled iOS and Android application for all Vantiva gateways that allows consumers to set up and manage their home gateways and extenders using their mobile phones and tablets. NaviGate Companion allows end users to monitor and manage their home network in real-time and from anywhere. It grants visibility and defines Internet access rules, including advanced Wi-Fi settings and parental controls.
“Our experience has given us a deep understanding of the complex home environment and the unique challenges NSPs have in ensuring a premium user experience,” said Ashwani Saigal, Vice President of broadband and video product at Vantiva. “We developed the NaviGate Suite to provide data-driven insights that will enable operators to provide preventive care that reduces operational expenses while elevating the home experience.”
This is the latest development in Vantiva’s ongoing commitment to providing open and innovative technologies for Network Service Providers (NSPs) and TV operators around the world. The ultimate goal is to help deliver consumers seamless connectivity and premium entertainment experiences by creating best-in-class customer premise equipment (CPE) and partnering with the most innovative companies in the connected home ecosystem.
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Varnish Software – Booth 5.B37
Varnish Software, a leader in caching, streaming and content delivery software solutions, will showcase its latest solutions for dynamic and efficient content delivery at IBC 2023, including new and advanced technology to help broadcasters, telcos and streaming service providers gain increased control while maximizing performance, efficiency and costs.
Demonstrations at Varnish Software’s booth will address an array of key challenges and opportunities organizations face today. These issues range from transitioning to OTT and supporting VoD and live streaming in a single platform at scale, to providing differentiated edge service offerings to increase revenue and more.
Demos will also reveal new insights and learnings gained from real-world deployments with leading broadcasters, telcos and content providers who’ve utilized Varnish Software’s solutions to cut operating costs, maximize the ROI of existing infrastructure, and enhance throughput and efficiency for seamless digital experiences.
“From a value perspective, what we are helping our clients with is anticipating the needs of their customers, wherever they are, and helping them deliver unparalleled user experiences,” said Adrian J Herrera, CMO, Varnish Software. “This includes helping them get ahead of the cost curve while enabling scale and setting them up with a more modern approach that increases their flexibility.”
Varnish Software’s latest solutions are designed to optimize every layer of content delivery, from traffic routing and management all the way to content storage and access. New solutions to be showcased at Varnish’s booth include:
- Varnish Enterprise 6 with the upgraded Varnish Controller 5.1 and Traffic Router is the industry’s most feature-rich web cache and HTTP accelerator, with expanded features to ensure optimal user experiences by always distributing content from the best location. The solution is a finalist in the upcoming 2023 Leading Lights Awards
- Massive Storage Engine 4 is the most advanced solution for storing and managing cached objects and their metadata for large-cache scenarios like video distribution
- Updates on Varnish Software’s record-breaking content delivery performance, expanding on previous industry benchmarks set for speed, power and efficiency, including 1.3 Tbps throughput per edge server
Live product demos and presentations will feature guest speakers from partners and customers, including Intel and Telia, as well as lessons learned from Varnish Software’s latest deployments and recent research, including:
- Breaking the 1 Tbps Barrier – how Varnish, Intel and Supermicro achieved greater than 1.3 Tbps throughput per edge server, a new standard for sustainable content delivery that any organization can benefit from
- How to improve Core Web Vitals by enabling caching solutions that make decisions from the edge
- How and Why to Deploy a Private CDN to reduce CDN and cloud service fees, while optimizing traffic routing, failover and performance
- How to Use High Performance Storage at the Edge to store and manage cached objects away from origin servers for reduced latency, increased resilience and cost efficiency
Additionally, Varnish Software invites all IBC attendees to its booth for Happy Hour for the first three days of the IBC show. Free beer and wine will be served from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
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Velocix – Booth 5.C10
Visit Velocix’s booth at IBC 2023 to discover our latest launches for optimising video streaming efficiency, while also maximising platform flexibility and elevating the viewer experience. Our latest cloud TV applications include:
- Hybrid-cloud Origin + CDN – maximise the efficiency of live, VOD and nPVR by harnessing both cloud & on-premises storage plus streaming.
- 5G Edge-cloud CDN – achieve a step-change in 5G streaming performance by delivering from a MEC framework using elastic caches.
- Dynamic, multi-CDN switching – intelligently route video streams over public and private CDNs to scale-out content delivery plus improve QoE.
- Video analytics – strengthen streaming efficiency, the viewing experience and marketing intelligence with deep network insights.
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Viaccess-Orca – Stand 1.A51
At IBC2023, Viaccess-Orca will bring to focus the human side of technology to simplify video delivery and monetization for TV operators and service providers, enabling them to overcome the challenges of the evolving media and entertainment industry. VO’s data-driven and AI-powered solutions allow service providers to streamline operations while minimizing their carbon footprint, and help viewers find desired content, ensuring personalized viewing experiences.
Reducing Complexity with Best-of-Breed TV Solutions
At IBC2023, VO will showcase its state-of-the-art TV platform featuring:
- An end-to-end, data-driven solution for delivering outstanding viewing experiences. This includes VO’s service delivery platform, content protection and multi-DRM, a multiplatform video player, customizable TV apps, business analytics, AI-based targeted TV advertising, FAST, end-to-end monitoring, and AI-based recommendations.
- Multiscreen TV apps, a unified backend, and innovative security tools for protecting premium content and revenues.
- Monetization solutions, including VO’s award-winning Targeted TV Advertising, enabling operators and service providers to offer a user-driven TV experience and support evolving viewer preferences.
Through end-to-end services and scalable, cloud-native technologies, VO’s solutions reduce complexity, simplify deployments, and optimize service management. VO’s solutions can be deployed in the cloud, on-prem, or in a hybrid architecture that is fully automated and future-proof.
Augmenting Human Expertise With AI
VO is empowering video service providers to adapt to the evolving TV landscape by using advanced artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and machine learning operations (MLOps) across its product offerings, including the company’s TV platform, Secure Video Player, Targeted TV Advertising solution, and Anti-Piracy Services. VO’s solutions harness the power of AI to simplify workflows, reduce workloads, and unlock the full potential of human expertise.
At IBC2023, VO will demo several use cases of AI:
- Predictive maintenance, showing how VO data scientists have built AI models to anticipate production issues, improving the net promoter score.
- VO’s Anti-Piracy Center, leveraging ML to identify illegal IPTV services over the internet.
- TV user segmentation, highlighting how data science and big data can be used to improve the monetization of TV services.
Optimizing Energy Efficiency
VO is committed to finding greener ways to stream video. As a member of the NESTED (New vidEo STandards for Enhanced Delivery) project, a united effort to achieve sustainable video streaming over 5G with partners including Orange, Ateme, Enensys Technologies, and IETR, the company has successfully integrated the findings of the NESTED project. At IBC2023, VO will showcase a new green dashboard for video streaming. The VO Player will also be shown embedded with a new live peer-to-peer stack, reducing CDN consumption for video service providers. In addition, VO will highlight an eco-friendly mode for the VO Player to optimize the end-to-end streaming carbon footprint for a given perceived QoE.
Protecting Premium Live Content
At IBC2023, VO will demonstrate innovative security tools for protecting premium content and revenues. Attendees can see VO’s Anti-Piracy Center, a fully customizable set of cybersecurity services for the video content industry that includes dynamic watermarking, protection against CDN leeching, monitoring, breach detection, password sharing, and legal investigation into piracy for both live and on-demand content. With VO’s trusted and proven Anti-Piracy Services, operators can counteract various threats across the content distribution chain, from the service delivery platform to the end-user device. This is particularly crucial for premium live content, such as sports.
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Vialite Communications – Stand 1.C21
Renowned for high-performing, versatile and reliable backhaul solutions, ViaLite Communications will be showcasing its world-leading RF over fiber equipment trusted by suppliers covering the most watched live events in the world. Visitors will have access to the unmatched technology on stand 1.C21, with the expert team on hand to help industry professionals transform their broadcast capabilities.
IBC cultivates the latest innovations and trends in the broadcast and satellite sectors, setting itself as the best place for the industry to stay up-to-date.
Showcased on ViaLite’s stand at the event are the world-leading RF over fiber solutions giving broadcasters more freedom, lower running costs and unbeatable signal reliability. Explore the modules, which give the widest dynamic range on the market, extended range and portability for wireless equipment and transmit multiple cameras and audio signals on one cable, backed by ViaLite’s industry-leading 5 year warranty.
For the satcom professionals, ViaLite will also be displaying industry-leading ground station signal transport systems, providing links and long distance solutions up to 600 km. Reliability, signal integrity and minimizing loss are at the forefront of ViaLite’s product design process, resulting in unbeatable performance trusted by 75% of the biggest teleport operators around the globe.
By attending IBC2023, broadcast and satcom professionals access world leading expertize, extensive networking opportunities with top decision-makers, and a firsthand look at the newest technologies driving the industry forward.
“We are thrilled to be back at IBC, engaging face-to-face with the broadcast and satcom industries once again,” said David Downham, Global Sales Director at ViaLite. “Our team is eager to help professionals deliver a more reliable transmission for their broadcast and ground station applications.”
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Virscient – Booth 8.B77a
Virscient, the New Zealand wireless and audio technical powerhouse will be debuting LiveOnAir at IBC. LiveOnAir is the result of Virscient’s many years of experience delivering differentiated wireless connectivity solutions for professional and consumer audio OEMs.
Designed to meet the needs of professional live performance, LiveOnAir provides for audio sample bit depths up to 24-bit, and sample rates up to 96 kHz. With various narrow- and wide-band RF transceiver options, LiveOnAir can support short range (up to 10 metres or 30 feet) or long range (up to multiple kilometres/miles) applications in globally-available unlicensed spectrum.
In addition to exceptional audio support, LiveOnAir is able to deliver (Audio In to Audio Out) latencies of under 5ms for Bluetooth LE and around 3ms for UWB. Use cases for LiveOnAir include digital wireless microphones, In Ear Mics and Gaming accessories.
LiveOnAir supports both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint topologies, and includes industry-standard security mechanisms based on the NIST-approved Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH). Options are available to enable standards-based interoperability modes through fallback to Bluetooth or LE Audio transports.
At IBC, visitors will be able demonstrate LiveOnAir based on Nordic’s nRF5340 BLE SOC. This demo will be available on Antennaware’s booth at 8.B77a.
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VisualOn – Booth 5.B83
Bandwidth usage and costs are skyrocketing, impacting video profitability for service providers. At IBC2023, VisualOn will unveil its industry-first universal content-adaptive encoding (CAE) solution, the VisualOn Optimizer. The new solution enables service providers to reduce streaming costs while enhancing viewing experiences without ever touching their existing infrastructures.
Reducing Video Streaming Bitrates by Up to 70%
VisualOn Optimizer is the industry’s first universal CAE solution to offer unparalleled performance and seamless integration with existing encoding and delivery systems.
The AI-enhanced solution utilizes an innovative real-time, continuous CAE approach to analyze live and VOD content, determining the best transcoder settings for outstanding video quality and lower bitrates. Using the Optimizer, service providers can reduce bitrates by an average of 40% and up to 70% to improve video service bandwidth, storage costs, service scalability, user experience, and energy savings.
The Optimizer has undergone extensive benchmarking with global service providers, showing consistent results.
Speaking Session on Live Streaming
VisualOn will join other industry experts on the IBC2023 panel “The Technical Challenges of Live Streaming” taking place on Sept. 15 at 3:30 p.m. at the IBC Content Everywhere stage. The panel session will discuss different approaches to delivering scalable and reliable low-latency live streaming and address the emerging opportunities for the application of AI and machine learning.
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Witbe – Booth 5.D76
At IBC2023, Witbe will showcase its powerful automated testing and proactive monitoring technology. The company will demonstrate the benefits of its products and services to streaming and broadband video service providers looking to measure the true quality of experience (QoE) that their customers receive. Highlights in Amsterdam will include the company’s new Smart Navigate AI algorithm and enhanced Script Writer feature, which was recently added to Workbench, Witbe’s software for scripting and maintaining automated test scenarios. These powerful additions significantly reduce the time and effort required for scripting scenarios, allowing testing teams to work more productively and efficiently.
“Witbe is thrilled to be back at IBC, which is always a positive and forward-thinking gathering for our industry,” said Marie-Véronique Lacaze, president and co-founder of Witbe. “Pioneered by our growing Portugal office, which recently assisted in launching a major streaming service across Europe, our enhanced Script Writer and the new Smart Navigate AI-powered algorithm are both perfect examples of how Witbe’s powerful technology utilizes the latest advancements to increase productivity for our customers. They have already been implemented for several of our customers to great success, and I’m pleased we have the chance to introduce them to a new audience of video service providers at IBC.”
Witbe’s Smart Navigate algorithm uses machine learning to intelligently understand the menu layout and navigation of a streaming app or set-top box. This allows team members to zoom past scripting every single step of the navigation process and instead simply list which submenu or asset the test should select. Smart Navigate also automatically adapts scenarios to new menu OS updates, saving testers dozens of hours previously spent manually updating them.