Arqiva, has selected Media Excel’s HERO encoders, through Garland Partners, as part of its IP streaming solution.
The content delivery company was looking for a robust streaming IP platform capable of delivering a broadcast-quality service at a competitive cost per channel. The Garland team worked closely with Arqiva to supply the best solution.
Media Excel HERO encoders provide high-quality encoding and transcoding with superior density, and best-in-class management features. The Media Excel HERO encoders will encode a variety of TV sources and output them as Microsoft Smooth Streaming video, while embedding time-sensitive data into all output streams. The data can then be used downstream on the player side, to reference the streams against an EPG or Live to VoD workflow, via unified streaming services. Media Excel also helped Arqiva to develop customer interfaces (APIs) to ease the integration of the encoder with the different elements of the IP streaming solution.
Alex Pannell, Media Services Director at Arqiva, said: “Garland Partners with its Media Excel offer has enabled Arqiva to deliver a high-quality IP streaming solution, which will ensure our customers are able to provide a consistently great user experience, thanks to the exceptional standard of monitoring and quality of service that the encoders provide. We found Garland to be extremely responsive and effective due to their expertise and understanding of our business aims.”
Arqiva’s IP streaming solution can be easily integrated into its media management and occasional use service, so broadcasters can either deliver the content direct to its consumers, or use the solution as a confidence feed to securely monitor existing services, to ensure a high quality managed service.