Edgeware, the leader in video delivery networks, announces that its Edgeware’s Video Consolidation Platform (VCP) is now hosted in the CableLabs’ IPTV Innovations laboratory, enabling Cable Operators to model a real IPTV delivery network and test the ecosystem in a multi-vendor environment. CableLabs, a not-for-profit research and development consortium whose members comprise Cable Operators, uses the facility to demonstrate interoperability between multiple components within the IP video delivery network, including ABR (adaptive bit rate) streaming.
Edgeware said that it has recently worked with a number of industry players to demonstrate compliance with CableLabs’ Adaptive Transport Stream (ATS) interoperability specifications. In addition to being included in CableLabs’ IPTV Innovations Lab, Edgeware participated in the CableLabs’ ATS and Edge Boundary Point (EBP) interoperability event earlier this year, where the company worked collaboratively to ensure interoperability with multiple vendors.
According to Edgeware, VCP is a hardware accelerated, software defined consolidated platform for the delivery of next-generation TV and video services. The solution consists of the VCP Edge, a highly-optimized CDN caching and distribution solution, and the VCP Origin, which collapses the need for many disparate pieces of equipment into one efficient and powerful unit.
Margit Tritt, business development executive of Edgeware
As customers continue to demand TV everywhere, and a la carte content offerings, pay-TV providers need to rely on HTTP-based adaptive bit rate streaming technologies to deliver expanded video services to a large number of devices, including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and legacy STBs. This is why we offered our solution to CableLabs to serve as a resource in demonstrating how cable companies can cost-effectively deliver what the industry is demanding.
