The media and broadcast sector is going through a hugely exciting time at the moment as it transitions into a new era of innovation. With a host of choice, new types of content and increased personalization, service providers and distributors need to find new ways of increasing their subscriber base, reaching new regions of the globe to enable them to continue to capitalize on the streaming boom.
Innovation will be at the forefront of ST Engineering iDirect’s showcase at this year’s IBC Show, the ST Engineering iDirect team will be located at stand 1.A49 and will give delegates the opportunity to experience live demonstrations and ask our experts the questions that matter to discover how ST Engineering iDirect can support their broadcast requirements into the future.
Meet the MCX8000
We will be showcasing the award-winning MCX8000, the Next-Gen Broadcast Multi-Carrier Satellite Gateway. The Gateway is uniquely positioned to provide a path to support the transport of today´s traditional broadcasts and tomorrow´s OTT services.
The MCX8000 is a high density, high availability, fully redundant modular system that is suitable for a variety of broadcast use cases. These include direct-to-home broadcasting where bringing quality content to the largest possible subscriber base is key.
The MCX8000 Multi-Carrier Satellite Gateway is highly bandwidth efficient thus maximizing the throughput, using the DVB-S, DVB-S2, or DVB-S2X standard and providing reliable transport stream delivery.
Bart Van Utterbeeck, General Manager of LATAM at ST Engineering iDirect said: ‘Broadcasters are looking to lower CAPEX and OPEX and be more cost-effective in a competitive landscape’.
‘We designed the MCX8000 with the idea of bringing together the best of both worlds – high density and high reliability – through robust design and industry-leading redundancy solutions. The result is a future proof system that combines video and IP multiservice capabilities to support the transport of today´s and tomorrow´s services’.
In Distribution to Towers (DTT), the MCX8000 ideally fits as a satellite front-end, feeding multiple IRDs (Integrated Receiver Decoders) and one MCX8000 can be used for tens of TV channels.
For OTT delivery, the MCX8000’s high IP encapsulation rates and efficient multicast capabilities, means that it is uniquely positioned to provide a path to support the transport of today´s traditional broadcasts and tomorrow´s OTT services.
Its unique features include a hot-swappable design that reduces OPEX, high availability and full redundancy and easy configuration. The result is a future proof system that combines video and IP multiservice capabilities to support the transport of today´s and tomorrow´s services.
The SKYflow ecosystem: A gamechanger for content delivery
The collaborative partners of the SKYflow ecosystem, the revolutionary multicast ABR ecosystem that features technology from EKT, EasyBroadcast, Quadrille and ST Engineering iDirect, will feature in a live demonstration during IBC.
This innovative ecosystem has defined satellite’s role in OTT delivery and will enable service providers and telcos to deliver content to any device in any location and will satisfy the many use cases that require satellite delivery of OTT services.
Congested networks and geographical reach of terrestrial systems have often been a stumbling block for OTT providers and telcos. As they try to attract new subscribers in more remote regions of the world, they must be able to extend their reach beyond the realms of terrestrial networks.
The satellite-based SKYflow ecosystem enables them to solve both challenges due to its capability to reach anywhere in the world, to transport high bitrates to the edge, its multicasting performance and smart pre-positioning of content at the edge.
The introduction of the ecosystem extends far beyond media and entertainment, but also enables a plethora of other use cases. These include helping educational institutions to reach their students; healthcare providers to offer telemedicine services; mobility markets to deliver video on the move and distribution of video to the consumer and households that may not have a computer but do have a television.
SKYflow can be utilized from transmit-only (via a Set Top Box) all the way to very performant high bandwidth and bi-directionally connected remote Points of Presence using a VSAT platform, assuring efficient satellite distribution to a range of terminals and a game changer for OTT delivery.
The ecosystem has been adopted by the Peruvian government to deliver OTT video and documents to remote regions of Peru, enabling the Peruvian people to access public content including educational content that has previously been unavailable to them.
Van Utterbeeck said of the project: ‘The SKYflow ecosystem, combined with our system integration capabilities, delivers a critically important service to households that, without it, have limited options for education and growth’.
Want to learn more about the SKYflow ecosystem? Read our white paper
