If you care about storage costs, network bandwidth or the headaches of a network upgrade, our TransAct Packager is a must-have component for your multiscreen deployment. With today’s announcement of just-in-time packaging (JITP) capabilities, this award-winning product continues to stay on the leading edge of adaptive bitrate streaming technology.

A first-of-its-kind capability, JITP enables on-the-fly packaging of video streams for delivery to any device, as it’s requested. By eliminating the need for pre-packaging, JITP saves the cost and bandwidth issues associated with storing large amounts of content for VOD and NDVR multiscreen applications.

This white paper explains the concept in more detail, providing specific use cases with cost models for storage and bandwidth vs. JITP.

Even if you have a relatively small content library today, JITP can save you headaches in other areas as well. When deploying solutions for new adaptive streaming protocols, such as the new MPEG DASH standard, JITP gives you an easy entry point, eliminating the need to convert your entire on-demand library into the new protocol all at once – do it ‘just-in-time’ and you not only save on storage, but offline transcoding costs and efforts as well. Just think – when Apple makes that next upgrade to HLS, you’ll be ready to go!

For those of you who already use the TransAct Packager in your network, adding this new JITP capability is a simple license upgrade. And for those of you who are considering adding this one-of-a kind packager to your network, click here to learn about its many other industry-leading features.

We’ll be demonstrating our new just-in-time packaging capability, along with MPEG DASH support, at NAB later this month. Come see us at booth #SU10412 and find out how you can future-proof your multiscreen deployment.