Scopus at IBC2008

Operators and content providers face many challenges in today's market: making a smooth and fast transition to digital video broadcasting; establishing mass delivery of HD services; handling a large variety of video formats; and meeting the increasing demand for personalized on-demand and targeted advertising. At IBC2008 stand 1.B49, Scopus Video Networks will address these challenges.

Showcasing a variety of solutions and new platforms for operators, broadcasters, and content providers, Scopus will feature unique and comprehensive IP- and ASI-based headend solutions and video delivery systems, high-quality bandwidth-optimization solutions for contribution and distribution and multi-format video encoding platforms for hybrid transmission and diverse HD/SD services.

Of particular note, Scopus will debut the Eldorado NMS, its new video network management system. The Eldorado significantly enhances the comprehensive capabilities of Scopus' direct-to-home and content distribution solutions.

Scopus will also launch the next generation in its flagship receiving/processing platform for multi-format dense decoding and processing. The new integrated receiver processor (IRP) is based on the technology underpinning Scopus' world leading integrated receiver decoder (IRD) products.

The Eldorado Network Management System
Designed to meet the fast-paced changes in digital video headend technologies and formats, the Eldorado network management system addresses operator, teleport, and broadcaster requirements by managing services and devices across networks, scaling from small headends to large and distributed networks. It uniquely features IP and ASI routing solutions, a variety of redundancy schemes, drag-and-drop operations for topology and views, easy integration of third-party devices, and more.

Integrated Receiver Processor (IRP)
Scopus will demonstrate its IRP, an innovative technology platform for advanced receiving and processing applications. Based on Scopus' widely deployed integrated receiver decoder (IRD) platform technology, the IRP platform targets a variety of headend, edge receiving, and processing applications for cable, satellite, terrestrial, and IPTV operators, addressing handling of multi-format SD/HD content, H.264/MPEG-2 decoding, transport stream descrambling, IP edge streaming, ASI aggregation, remultiplexing, transmodulation, HD-to-SD downconversion, and more.

The IRP's compact 1RU platform incorporates multi-format (HD/SD, H.264/MPEG-2) and dense (up to four channels) decoding, a powerful multiplexing core that enables grooming and PSI/SI and PSIP aggregation of multiple HD and SD programs, and a wide variety of inputs (8VSB, ASI, and IP) and outputs (baseband video, audio, ASI, and IP).

Enhanced IP- and ASI-Based Headend
Scopus' digital video broadcast headend solutions are based on a unique and flexible IP and ASI headend concept. Each Scopus headend building block features both IP and ASI interfaces for fully flexible content routing, processing, management, and redundancy, which ensures minimal operational downtime, reduces expenses, and enables the launch of new services.

A new enhancement to Scopus' digital video broadcast headends includes an H.264 HD/SD statistical multiplexing system. Addressing direct-to-home services and content distribution, this system enables cable, satellite, IPTV, and terrestrial facilities to achieve considerable bandwidth savings when based on H.264 DVB-S2 technologies versus MPEG-2 DVB-S-based systems.

Contribution and Distribution Solutions for Broadcasters and Content Providers Scopus will display a broad range of platforms and solutions for live event coverage, studio-to-studio transmission, and primary contribution and distribution of high-quality video.

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