ATEME is leading a NESTED (New vidEo STandards for Enhanced Delivery) consortium aimed at developing a high quality-of-experience (QoE) and sustainable video-streaming solution over 5G.
The video solutions specialist is working in partnership with Orange to test the efficiency of the system, alongside Viaccess-Orca, contributing its secure video player, QoE analytics enabler suite and targeted advertising solution, and ENENSYS Technologies with its MediaCast Mobile and its CubeAgent Mobile. French institution IETR (Institut d’Electronique et des Technologies du numéRique), the research unit at French engineering school INSA Rennes, is contributing a VVC decoder.
In addition to leading the project, ATEME is bringing forward its compression technology, its Just-in-time packager and its CDN.
Mickaël Raulet, Chief Technology Officer, ATME commented: ” There is an ongoing debate about the environmental impact of streaming over 5G and this project will help to lessen that. It also highlights the innovation taking place within the French market and once completed, we look forward to helping other organizations around the world leverage that innovation through our new streaming solution.”
The consortium will leverage the latest advances in video compression and delivery technologies, and their expected benefits in terms of reduced environmental impacts. These inclide CMAF chunk sharing to reduce the traffic burden on the CDN; the latest VVC video encoding with its promise of halving bitrates and multicast/unicast convergence enabling peak audience reach
Julien Lemotheux, TV&Video Senior Standardization Manager, Orange, said: “The impact our actions have on the environment is front of mind for everyone within our organization. By working with the NESTED 5G taskforce, we hope to make streaming more sustainable, reducing our energy footprint and allowing our customers to enjoy high-quality content.”
The two-year project, supported by France’s Brittany region (Région Bretagne), is due to end in 2023, by which time the consortium is confident it will be able to demonstrate the benefits of its solution when it comes to offering sustainable streaming over 5G and reducing the environmental impact of delivering video.