If you are a Telco or Cable Provider looking to make leaps in video or TV streaming cost effectiveness or monetize the demand from your subscribers for on-demand TV and video services such as time shift TV, nPVR and VOD, the Edgeware Orbit IPTV server platform provides the keystone of your solution.
Edgeware´s disruptive video server systems Orbit-2X and Orbit-2G offer advanced capabilities for video and TV services across an operator´s network, irrespective of core network bandwidth. The Orbit servers are purpose designed to build highly distributed delivery architectures, with minimal power consumption, small 1U half rack form factor and integrated asset propagation, session and fault tolerance management. This allows rapid deployment of a distributed on-demand video and TV service without the need to dramatically expand core network bandwidth. The servers can equally effectively be used in a centralized environment, dramatically increasing streaming capacity in a data center while reducing costs of power and cooling per stream by up to 90%.
The Orbit-2X/2G combines an advanced and highly integrated network device with a complete on-demand TV and video delivery platform that includes modular built-in solid state flash storage hosting up to 6 TB of content. In contrast to generic servers, the Edgeware Orbit family is purpose built for the operator environment offering a step-change in cost effectiveness. Target customers are telco and cable providers, offering video-on-demand (VOD) or TV on-demand services.
The Orbit platform can also be used to enhance Quality of Experience of linear TV services through sophisticated features such as fast channel change and retransmission. The Orbit servers are designed to work as a distributed cache anywhere in a network and is integrated with many of the most common back office and middleware systems, ensuring a seamless fit into complex environments as well as a full set of self contained functionality for smaller networks.
Orbit 2X/2G