Delivering High-Quality, Reliable, Cost Effective Video Streaming
The demand for high-definition (HD) and ultra-high-definition (UHD) television in digital entertainment, coupled with the growing trend of multiple simultaneous video streams per household, has introduced significant challenges for IPTV and OTT service providers.
The Nokia Video Broadcast Optimizer significantly advances the IPTV and OTT streaming landscape. Addressing critical challenges such as visual distortions and channel switching delays provides a superior QoE for end users. Its robust feature set and award-winning innovation make the Nokia VBO an essential tool for service providers looking to enhance their live video streaming capabilities. With the Nokia VBO, service providers can deliver high-quality, reliable, and cost-effective video streaming experiences to their subscribers, ensuring customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Addressing the Challenges of Modern Video Streaming
With the proliferation of HD and UHD content and the increasing number of simultaneous streams, end users often face degraded QoE if specific measures are not implemented. Common issues include visual distortions and unacceptable channel switching times, leading to customer dissatisfaction and increased calls to customer support centers. These problems not only risk losing customers but also escalate operational costs.
Visual Distortions and Channel Switching Delays
Visual distortions occur when video data is lost or corrupted during transmission, resulting in a subpar viewing experience. Similarly, channel switching delays, often stretching to four or five seconds, disrupt the seamless experience users expect. The Nokia VBO addresses these issues by minimizing channel switching times and preventing visual distortions, ensuring a superior viewing experience for end users.
The Nokia Video Broadcast Optimizer
The Nokia VBO is part of Nokia’s CDN for Live solution, which also includes the Nokia 7750 Service Router (SR) and innovative video technologies from Nokia Bell Labs. This groundbreaking solution transforms and enhances the linear live broadcast TV experience, catering simultaneously to OTT and IPTV subscribers. The Nokia VBO operates with a wide range of IPTV and OTT middleware platforms, making it a versatile and essential tool for modern service providers.
Key Benefits
Cost-effective Live Video Streaming: Distributes live video to many subscribers without excessive costs.
Zero Live Latency: Matches digital live broadcast TV latency, providing real-time streaming experiences.
Ultra-fast Channel Delivery: Achieves channel change times as low as 90ms to under 500ms, ensuring seamless transitions.
Versatile Content Delivery: Supports live IP video streaming over any access network, accommodating multicast and routed unicast streaming.
Ultra-reliable RTP Streaming: Guarantees high reliability with 99.999% or above.
Video Repair with PerfectStream: Ensures video integrity over transit networks.
Key Features
Optimizing MPEG Transport Streams: Supports both multicast (IPTV) and routed unicast (OTT) for versatile content delivery.
Reliable IP Streaming: Includes retransmission capabilities for lost packets, supporting both routed unicast and multicast transmissions.
Middleware-agnostic Design: Ensures compatibility with diverse middleware solutions, simplifying integration.
Open Integration Toolkit: Facilitates flexible and streamlined device integration.
Comprehensive Monitoring and Reporting: Provides robust operational statistics for better management.
Enhanced Content Security: Interoperability with DVB/ETSI SimulCrypt standards allows seamless integration with conditional access key servers.
Award-winning Innovation
The excellence of the Nokia VBO was recognized at the SportsPro OTT Awards 2023, where it won the “Best in Broadcast Distribution” category. This accolade highlights the innovative capabilities of the CDN for Live solution, which combines the Nokia VBO, Nokia 7750 SR, and Nokia Bell Labs technologies to deliver a cutting-edge live broadcast TV streaming experience.
Technical Overview: Nokia VBO Components
- VBO Client Software Library: Available for ARM or Intel 32-bit or 64-bit processors, this library runs on various devices such as set-top boxes (STBs), PCs, Smart TVs, smartphones, tablets, and HDMI dongles. It is pre-integrated in many leading commercial chipsets and software development kits.
- VBO Appliance: Conditions video traffic for Fast Channel Change (FCC) and Retransmission (RET), supports video denting, and handles both IP unicast and multicast streaming.
- Service Discovery Platform (SDP): Manages service operations.
- Video Packets Caching, Replication, and Forwarding Appliance: Essential for the CDN for Live solution.
- Client Statistics Counters: Provide valuable QoS and QoE information, enabling near-real-time network monitoring and reporting.
- SimulCrypt AES 128 Cipher: Enhances content protection and optimizes cost-effectiveness.
- Advanced Features
- Fast Channel Change (FCC): Supports ultra-fast channel switching for an uninterrupted viewing experience.
- Retransmission of Lost Packets (RET): Ensures high video quality by retransmitting lost or damaged packets.
- Video Denting: Manages bandwidth in restricted or congested networks.
- IP Video Middleware-agnostic: Compatible with various middleware solutions, providing flexibility.
- Standards-based Design: Ensures compatibility with ETSI and DVB standards.
- Scalable Deployment: Allows flexible, hierarchical deployment from the network edge to the central office.
Environmental and Operational Benefits
The Nokia VBO is designed with sustainability in mind, featuring low power consumption and a reduced carbon footprint. It offers extensive operational statistics collection and supports various operating systems and hardware platforms, including Linux, Android TV, Tizen OS, webOS, and Raspberry Pi OS.
Seamless Integration and High Availability
The Nokia VBO supports both multicast-enabled and multicast-deficient networks, achieving near-real-time live latency for routed unicast-only or hybrid streaming. Its built-in DVB SimulCrypt cipher ensures high availability and cost-effectiveness, with no loss of encrypted video services in case of CAS server failure or video headend network failover.
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