Imagine Communications’ ICE® Broadcast System Now Serves More Than 20 Million Digital Video Subscribers

The ICE Broadcast System provides operators the flexibility and scalability required to rapidly deploy new advanced video services while ensuring the highest video quality and QoE. An integral part of the ICE Broadcast System is the industry’s premier video quality monitoring and reporting system, ICE Video Quality Assurance (ICE VQA). ICE VQA enables an unprecedented level of control over the video quality and QoE across all digital services, including HDTV, VOD, network PVR (nPVR) IPTV and Internet Video.

“The ICE Broadcast System set a new bar for video quality and operational efficiency,” said Lorenzo Bombelli, Imagine’s VP of Product Strategy and Management. “Imagine continues to remain focused on improving the quality, density, and efficiency of our solutions so that our customers can provide the services and quality of experience subscribers demand.”

Additional Benefits of the ICE Broadcast System

• Best Solution for HD Quality – Imagine’s video processing technology enables the most cost-effective delivery of bandwidth-intensive content with the highest video quality. The ICE Video Platform provides a suite of solutions for digital broadcast and PersonalizedTV^® services such as VOD, nPVR, IPTV and Internet Video. Imagine’s core technologies of Interchangeable Compressed Elements (ICE) and video quality measurement (ICE-Q^®) address service providers’ growing needs for rapid deployment of new services, better video quality and more efficient utilization of precious network resources.
• Video Healing – ICE Broadcast System marks yet another milestone in the evolution of video processing. Whereas traditional solutions simply compress the input signal “as is,” the ICE Broadcast System performs a video quality analysis prior to compression and repairs certain errors in the source material. Corrupted timing packets are detected and repaired at the transport stream layer, while corrupted video slices and macroblocks are detected and repaired at the MPEG layer.
• Intelligent Network Interface – ICE Broadcast System uniquely integrates IP switching as a component of the system solution. This Intelligent Network Interface enables redundant streaming for both downstream networks and upstream sources. Further, it provides an enormous improvement in operational efficiency and reduces the required amount of physical cabling by over 95%. This efficiency eliminates complexity and dramatically reduces the capital expenditure associated with core network switch-port costs.
• Advanced System Density – The robust processing platform yields a 4x improvement in rack density and a 3x improvement in power consumption. This advancement enables a massive savings in real estate, power and cooling costs and is yet another proof point for the inherent advantages of a software-based system deployed on Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) servers.
• IPTV Applicability – The ICE Broadcast System extends the industry leading video quality and QoE from traditional closed-loop encoding and multiplexing to IPTV video processing, providing Constant Bit Rate (CBR) as well as capped Variable Bit Rate (VBR) outputs.

About Imagine Communications

Imagine Communications is a leading innovator in digital video solutions enabling content providers and system operators to deliver bandwidth-intensive services with optimum video quality and Quality of Experience (QoE). Imagine’s products serve the traditional HDTV and SDTV digital broadcast markets as well as emerging PersonalizedTV^® areas such as VOD, Network PVR (nPVR), Internet Video and IPTV. Imagine is based in San Diego with R&D in Israel. Imagine’s strong management team includes industry leaders with decades of experience delivering innovations in video communications. Founded in 2005, Imagine Communications is privately held and funded by Carmel Ventures, Columbia Capital and Court Square Ventures.

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