Vitec MGW1000 Quad HD 1RU Blade IPTV Encoder, HD/SD-SDI

Media Gateway (MGW) carrier-grade platforms are hardware-based professional video compression, transcoding and streaming systems that house VITEC MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) HD/SD, MPEG-2 HD/SD encoding blades and the new Transcoding and Mobile Streaming Blades. The award-winning MGW compression and streaming platforms deliver unprecedented video processing efficiency and exceptional video quality at a wide range of bit-rates. Designed for mission critical applications, the dense hardware architecture offers extensive modularity and redundancy options.

MGW platforms encode, transcode and transrate uncompressed and compressed HD and SD sources to bandwidth-efficient MPEG IP streams optimized for IPTV and full-motion-video (FMV) services. The Transcoding capabilities include real-time processing of any MPEG stream to the most common mobile and internet web streaming protocols including Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Silverlight Smooth Streaming (SST), Adobe Flash Dynamic Streaming (HDS), 3GPP, RTP and more.

Advanced capabilities include encoding of secondary stream (up to 1080p HD) for remote users or picture-in-picture (PiP) applications, ancillary data support, graphic overlay and time-code insertion. A management application suite optimized for secure Department-of-Defense IT environments up to top secret (TS) classification make the carrier-grade blade-based platforms the ideal video streaming solutions for federal and state government agencies, Telco operators and enterprises. The vitec 6th generation MPEG-4 H.264 compression codec delivers superb video quality at any bit-rate for applications ranging from situational awareness to DVD-quality streaming for the enterprise to HD video for real-time contribution and ISR applications.

The MGW platform utilizes a highly efficient integrated controller blade that serves as the single point of interaction with the network, manages all hardware modules in the system and automatically triggers redundancy and failover. The controller aggregates all streams produced by the compression blades into a single network interface with the LAN, reducing OPEx and CAPEx costs by eliminating the need to allocate multiple ports on the network switch and individually manage encoder modules.

With up to 104 HD/SD H.264 encoders (52 primary and 52 secondary streams) integrated in a single platform, the high-density MGW product line offers best-in-class video processing power with a compact footprint and lowest cost per video encoding port, The MGES-6000 blade provides full control of resolution, data rate and other compression parameters for both primary and secondary streams, including built-in downscaling from HD to HD and HD to SD with frame-rate down-converting. The blade also features inputs for composite, HD/SD-SDI and HDMI signals for flexible mixing of different sources in a single MGW deployment.

The cutting-edge MGTS-Prism IP Transcoder and the Mobile Streaming Blade offer extended reach and flexible dissemination of live video to any mobile device, phones, smart TV's and over-the-top (OTT) media players over Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G LTE networks or over the public Internet. Advanced capabilities such as video and audio pre-processing, content protection and Adaptive Bit-Rate (ABR) streaming make the MGW platforms the ideal solution for ingesting and distributing content for any live media application.

The MGW platform's built-in real-time encryption engine uses a 256/128-bit AES algorithm, allowing operators to securely deliver Full Motion Video and IPTV content over IP. The encrypted content and metadata is deciphered by authorized VITEC EZ TV and FITIS video player users, eliminating the need to manually manage access rights to IPTV content.

The VITEC Cluster Manager professional management suite provides intuitive, efficient monitoring and management of multiple MGW platforms and hundreds of channels from one centralized application. The system offers full redundancy including N+K capability that allows failover of a blade in one platform to a blade located in a different platform to eliminate single-point-of-failure scenarios. The MGW line is fully integrated with VITEC EZ TV and FITIS video delivery and management systems.