Video compression experts V-Nova have collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer a contribution solution based on SMPTE VC-6 that provides an important new option for broadcasters and producers worldwide, helping to drive up quality whilst avoiding the need for costly leased connections.

The volume of premium live sport and event contribution has been growing steadily in recent years and has been primarily reliant upon dedicated dark fibre backbones. However, the bandwidth requirements of low-latency contribution encoders have meant the cost of these dedicated connections has been prohibitive for many. Lower-quality, higher-latency encoders often have to be used to mitigate against this.

The combination of V-Nova’s P.Link contribution solution based on SMPTE VC-6 compression with AWS Elemental MediaConnect and AWS Direct Connect addresses these challenges directly. P.Link offers Intra-frame low latencies and equivalent quality at up to 70% lower bitrates than JPEG 2000 solutions. Transporting these feeds with AWS enables mission-critical one-to-one or one-to-many links that are easy to set up and are available in a cost-effective on-demand basis. SMPTE VC-6 encoding also notably reduces processing power requirements providing higher-density and lower operating costs. Extensive testing conducted so far has demonstrated excellent low-latency performance for feeds including 4Kp60 transport at less than 200ms between London and Sydney.

Boston Limited, today announced the launch of Stream+ during a keynote address from Manoj Nayee, managing director Boston Limited, during the Xilinx Developer Forum (XDF) Europe, 12 – 13 November, The Hague, Netherlands.

Stream+ is an optimised solution enabling large scale ultra-high-density live video encoding. The new appliance is configured using Supermicro® building blocks and powered by Xilinx Alveo accelerator cards and V-Nova’s P+ software.

Hyperscale video services like social and e-sports networks need to encode and serve vast numbers of live streams to their users. The server infrastructure required to satisfy this demand is often the highest cost for network operators. The Boston Stream+ is an ultra-dense encoding solution offering significant quality and cost benefits to video delivery customers.

VidOvation, a leading technology and systems integrator, and video compression technologies provider V-Nova have announced a strategic partnership to support the increasingly demanding requirements of media processing and delivery with next-generation video compression solutions.

The partnership will see VidOvation represent V-Nova’s line of PPro-powered P.Link products for the rapidly growing contribution and remote production markets in the United States.

The move further underpins a strategic partnership between AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, and V-Nova for development and commercialization of ground-breaking innovations for newsgathering. VidOvation is the master distributor in the U.S. for AVIWEST and will play a pivotal role in bringing the joint developed products to market in 2020.

Video compression solutions provider V-Nova and Metaliquid AI video analysis solutions provider have announced a strategic partnership that will build upon the success of their Media-Telecom Catalyst project, to develop and commercialize ground-breaking products for machine learning powered content indexing.

AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, and video compression solutions provider V-Nova, have announced a strategic partnership that will build upon the success of the Media-Telecom Catalyst project, to develop and commercialize groundbreaking products for newsgathering. The products are targeted for release in 2020.

V-Nova, a leading provider of video compression technologies, is delighted to announce that it is the key enabler for a groundbreaking new streaming service, MVMO, due to launch in Africa in late 2019. Partnering with next-generation OTT TV pioneer Simplestream, the service will combine the high-efficiency V-Nova P+ codec-agnostic enhancement and easy-to-deploy Simplestream streaming platform to deliver a wide range of high-quality content to audiences throughout the continent.

V-Nova, a leading provider of video compression solutions, today announced the 3rd generation of its multi award-winning portfolio of video distribution enhancement technologies, called P+ (previously PERSEUS Plus). The solution will be demonstrated at IBC 2019 on Stand 14.A07 in Amsterdam (September 13-17).

V-Nova today announced that is has become a member of the influential Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) - the international non-profit organisation that develops digital television standards.

V-Nova Ltd. & NGCodec® today announced the commercial availability of their combined FPGA-based encoding solution, which delivers industry-leading UHD video quality and encoding efficiency resulting in up to 50x cost savings when compared to traditional CPU software options. The solution will provide broadcasters, operators and service providers looking to launch next-gen UHD services with a one-stop solution that transforms the economic feasibility of bringing exceptional video experiences to consumers. Visitors to NAB can see the solution on the NGCodec booth SU14314 and V-Nova booth SU8213.

NAB 2019, Las Vegas, 8 – 11 April 2019 – V-Nova, a leading provider of video compression solutions, today announced the launch of its cloud-based SaaS transcoding and delivery platform for enhanced PERSEUS Plus h.264 and native h.264 encoding. The platform enables service providers and third party streaming platforms to rapidly launch PERSEUS Plus enhanced services offering higher quality video at up to 50% lower bitrates to a multitude of existing devices.

PERSEUS Pro is the only commercially deployed codec leveraging AI at its core, in a format that includes multiple layers of information within a single stream or file. The benefits are better overall compression compared to similar production and imaging formats and added features, such as a multi-scale rendering from single assets inclusive of transparency and HDR. This makes it an ideal format for contribution & production, imaging and AI-powered indexing acceleration. All of which are going to be demonstrated at NAB 2019 on booth SU8213.

Boxer, the UK’s leading solution provider for video, film and TV markets, will share its BVE stand (G20) with best-of-breed regional and global partners who will share their expertise in delivering solutions that exploit the powerful capabilities of emerging technologies.

V-Nova, a leading provider of video compression solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate at IBC2018 in Amsterdam (September 13-18) the increased ease of access, performance and wider applicability of its PERSEUS codecs. V-Nova’s solutions will be shown on booth 14.C36.