35 Years of innovation in video distribution

VITEC was founded in 1988 and its first IPTV client in 2008 was a broadcaster located in the Rockefeller Center in New York. Since then, VITEC‘s IPTV has been deployed to all major news organizations in the United States and a handful of European broadcasters.

Many of the largest broadcasters use VITEC IPTV across multiple facilities and link them together. The situation is different for stations that serve smaller markets.

Many, if not most, in this category have not yet transitioned to IPTV to deliver video to their premises. For these news organizations, the biggest hurdle is their internal data network. It is difficult to implement IPTV effectively when organizations lack a strong IT data infrastructure.

However, the situation is beginning to change. Organizations across all industries, including broadcast, are investing in technology to address the challenges and opportunities of our increasingly digital economy.

By modernizing their systems by adopting cloud services and adopting new collaborative platforms, they are making infrastructure upgrades. By doing so, video traffic is a workload they’re planning for. Broadcasters have concluded that RF networks are no longer feasible or necessary, abandoning RF networks in favor of IPTV over enterprise data networks.

In fact, once broadcasters invest in data network upgrades to support other corporate priorities, adding IPTV is a simple and relatively inexpensive addition. Also, IPTV scales incredibly well. It can handle small stations with five video streams delivered to 20 viewers just as efficiently as it can handle thousands of video streams to thousands of viewers.

When IPTV technology is combined with the latest compression algorithms, broadcasters can experience extremely high-quality video streams without overwhelming network resources. This is especially true when applying Multicast-to-the-Edge technology, a solution developed by VITEC, which eliminates the need for a dedicated network to support video applications.

Multicast-to-the-Edge technology has won high praise. VITEC recently received a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award due to the solution’s ability to manage IPTV streams in a technically effective and cost-effective manner.

VITEC‘s IPTV solution is flexible and can be implemented in any business network, such as the recent installation at the Chivas de Guadalajara Football Club in Mexico that included digital signage.

In addition, VITEC offers a line of products in the popular OpenGear format that provides high-density IPTV applications such as remote production, contribution, distribution, streaming video, and more.