MPEG-4 television

Friday, February 16th 2007 - 23:12 CET - Comments: 0

E nvivio Inc. and GlobeCast announce that they have reached a deal with Orange to deliver high-quality MPEG-4 television broadcasts to its mobile TV subscribers in France. The new solution, based at GlobeCast’s Paris technical operations center, features the Envivio mobile TV headend - comprised of the 4Caster M2 encoders, winner of the Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award, and the 4Manager network management system. By deploying the H.263/H.264 Envivio mobile TV headend, GlobeCast will be able to provide Orange with the highest quality live television and radio services to any mobile device, from GPRS to HSDPA, in its subscriber network.

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GlobeCast - Orange mobile TV

For GlobeCast, this represents an essential upgrade of its Orange-dedicated headend, which will allow the 61 television and 16 radio channels currently delivered by GlobeCast, to be distributed in a very high-quality, low-bit rate format. Subscribers to Orange's mobile TV services will benefit from a clear improvement in picture quality and quality of service. The Envivio mobile TV headend features the world's first and only multi-rate, multi-resolution and multi-standard encoder that outputs eight simultaneous profiles from a single video input. For Orange, this means a much greater interoperability among a wide variety of handsets, with multiple profiles generated from one input.

GlobeCast - Mobile TV subscribers

GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, is a world leader in mobile TV delivery, currently managing the aggregation and delivery of 100 television and radio channels for Orange subscribers in France, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. GlobeCast's worldwide offer to Orange includes everything from aggregation to 24/7 supervision, technical management and delivery.

Orange customers - MPEG-4 television

Orange is a subsidiary of France Telecom and keeps 88.6 million mobile customers across 23 countries in touch. They're not just talking - Orange makes it easier for them to communicate in ways that are richer and more engaging. From their work life to their home life, Orange customers have the flexibility to choose how and when they connect to people, information and entertainment.

Envivio mobile TV headend

The Envivio mobile TV headend addresses the requirements for a robust and reliable telco-grade deployment by supporting the most network standards, including 3GPP, 3GPP2, DVB-H and ISDB-T. It includes a complete network management system with N+M redundancy and web management, as well as support for ISMACryp security and ISMA wireless standards, providing integration with mainstream mobile ecosystem components. Further validating the success of the Envivio mobile TV headend and the company's work in the field of video encoding solutions for mobile television applications, Frost & Sullivan gave its Product Innovation Award to the Envivio 4Caster M2 mobile video encoder. Whatever the network, whatever the video standard, whatever the device and whatever the change in available bandwidth, the Envivio mobile TV headend is ideal to support the mobile TV services of today and tomorrow.