Imagine Communications will be on the Concilium Technologies stand (E17) at Mediatech Africa 2017. Advanced solutions on display will include:
- Selenio One XC
Selenio™ One XC is a software-based addition to the next-generation Selenio™ One compression platform, which offers media companies a single solution for performing a range of encoding, transcoding and related processing operations. Powered by Zenium™, Imagine’s pure microservices-based technology, the Selenio One platform can be deployed in different physical implementations to enable media companies to optimise for density, quality and cost, with all Selenio One elements controlled by a common user interface for operational efficiency.Selenio One XC, introduced this year, is optimised for both primary and secondary distribution, enabling content owners and video service providers to improve operational efficiencies by delivering more channels over existing distribution infrastructures. The software-only, cloud-native nature of Selenio One XC, with its ability to run on Linux-based virtual machines, also enables media companies to support both premises- and cloud-based deployment models.Initially targeted at providing video service providers with high-video-quality, highly efficient linear transcoding capabilities, Selenio One XC supports any-to-any H.264/MPEG-2 IP-based transcoding, as well as an optional multiplexer to provide bandwidth-conserving statistical multiplexing of expensive or bandwidth-constrained distribution channels.
- EPIC MV
EPIC™ MV is a software-based, UHD-ready multiviewer that provides broadcasters with a single canvas for all signal types and a seamless transition path to an all-IP future. Powered by Zenium™, Imagine Communications’ open and extensible pure microservices technology, EPIC MV is scalable to thousands of PIPs and hundreds of displays, providing a high-quality, low-TCO monitoring solution for today’s hybrid environments — and a simple, evolutionary path to any future monitoring requirement.The EPIC MV is a complete multiviewer solution that offers the full features of a class-leading multi-image display system. Featuring exceptional video quality, rich graphics, tally, UMD, timers, clocks and interfaces to a variety of third-party systems, EPIC MV delivers all the capabilities expected for monitoring and monetising content in high-value production environments.Designed to simplify monitoring environments as broadcasters migrate to IP, EPIC MV is a true hybrid solution that natively supports low-bandwidth compressed streaming formats, including MPEG‑2 and H.264/AVC essence. Option boards provide high-capacity SDI over IP, ST 20226-6/7 reception. A high-capacity baseband 3G/HD/SD/ASI option brings even greater breadth to the portfolio of input formats supported.
The open and extensible nature of the EPIC MV better positions media companies to integrate the latest technologies into their operations and quickly pivot to address new business and deployment models, including the cloud, as market conditions dictate. EPIC MV has been deployed in multiple live production environments, including all-IP configurations, in multiple continents. - Versio
Versio™ is a powerful modular playout solution used worldwide by media companies from small, single-channel to very large, multichannel environments and master control operations. It encompasses the best of the world’s automation, branding, graphics, file server, storage and master control capabilities in an entirely software-based environment. Versio was recently fortified with next-gen automation and redundancy enhancements that improve operational efficiency and expand the solution’s ability to fully exploit geo-dispersed and virtualised playout environmentsA 100 per cent software-based and fully IP-enabled solution, Versio provides a disruption-free transition to agile channel launch capabilities by enabling the widest variety of playout applications across flexible deployment models. Versio is deployable on customer premises, providing traditional, on-site channel-in-a-box deployments with baseband/SDI connectivity. It is also Cloud-Native, making it suitable for private datacenters or public cloud deployments, supporting all media types including baseband, SMPTE 2022 and compressed. The hybrid SDI/IP nature of Versio enables media companies to transition operations to IP at their own pace.Versio, which powers the playout and master control operations of some of the world’s most iconic brands, simplifies the creation and management of channels and enables media companies to extend their brands and content with more freedom, visibility and control than ever before. With Versio at the heart of channel-enablement, broadcasters and media companies are able to accelerate new services and improved operations that include specialty and popup channels, hyper-localised content and advertising, business continuity and disaster recovery and virtualised and streamlined master control.
