Incumbent teleco Faroese Telecom and subsidiary Televarpið has deployed ATEME’s compression and statistical multiplexing solutions for its DVB-T, IPTV and over-the-top (OTT) services.
Its statmux headend uses ATEME TITAN full-software solution for delivering 50 IPTV/OTT and 32 DTT services across the Faroe Islands with premium HD video quality. TITAN is a high-density software compression solution, designed for cable, DTT, DTH, IPTV and OTT, from mobile resolutions up to UHDp60. TITAN is also a complete distribution solution including SDI and IP I/Os, encoder, transcoder, multiplexer, statmux, packager and origin server.“We were looking for a product that combines high video quality with an ease of use that would simplify operations in the field,” said Edvard í Skorini, CEO at Televarpið. “By choosing ATEME common VBR/CBR/ABR encoding platform, we were able to meet our operational requirements and reduce our CAPEX links.”
Xavier Gentric, sales director at ATEME, added: “Running on any commercial off-the-shelf server, TITAN is the ideal solution for converged headend, servicing main and multiscreen applications. As the industry is moving to all-IP full-software video solutions, more and more Tier 1 broadcasters and service providers approve, adopt and deploy ATEME TITAN solutions all over the globe.”