FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RGB Networks and CASTIS Collaborate to Deliver Integrated VOD Solution
Partner companies to increase bandwidth efficiency by 50 percent
allowing for more HD content or other services
CCBN (Booth #2305) — Beijing, China — March 21, 2008 - RGB Networks (www.rgbnetworks.com) and CASTIS (www.castis.com) are teaming to deliver integrated video-on-demand (VOD) solutions that allow cable operators to deliver up to 50 percent more on demand content. Through the integration of RGB’s Dynamic Bandwidth Manager (DBM) and CASTIS’ Castanets® cable VOD system, operators will be able to deliver dramatically more video-on-demand (VOD) programming without requiring more bandwidth or impacting picture quality.
“We are very pleased to be working with CASTIS, one of the leading VOD server vendors in the Asia Pacific region, to deliver an interoperable VOD solution to our customers,” said Nick Hutton, Vice President, Asia Pacific for RGB Networks. “The combination of RGB’s Dynamic Bandwidth Manager and CASTIS’ VOD platform is an ideal solution for cable operators throughout the region, enabling them to deliver more VOD programming without the expense of upgrading their network infrastructure or adding new QAM modulators, and without affecting the user experience.”
“As the popularity of VOD increases and the demand for HD VOD continues to grow rapidly, operators require a cost-effective way to deliver more on demand content within their existing network infrastructure,” said Seung-Hak Kim, CEO of CASTIS. “Our join solution with RGB will allow operators to easily deliver more high-bandwidth services to their customers while avoiding costly upgrades and preserving the ‘trick-play’ feature that VOD users have come to expect.”
The DBM is based on RGB’s unique Video Intelligence Architecture™ (VIA), giving it an unprecedented ability to lower VOD bandwidth usage by up to 50 percent through the simultaneous processing of up to 1,200 programs. This dramatically lowers the cost-per-stream for operators to transrate individual VOD programs, making wide scale use of the DBM exceptionally cost-effective. Complementing its bandwidth optimizing capabilities, RGB’s DBM is exceptionally easy to deploy as it processes VOD programs in real-time, eliminating the need for complicated pre-processing of the programs and any complex integration with VOD servers. Operators simply ‘plug’ the DBM into existing VOD deployments as it is compatible with all the major components of an end-to-end VOD system, including VOD servers, resource managers, quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulators, and existing set-top boxes. The DBM preserves optimal picture quality and ensures that subscribers experience no noticeable differences when using VOD’s fast-forward, rewind and pause ‘trick-play’ features.
About Castis
CASTIS specializes in providing video-on-demand (VOD) solutions for cable and IPTV environments. For additional information regarding CASTIS, visit www.castis.com.
About RGB Networks
RGB Networks delivers extremely high-density, flexible video processing solutions that enable video service providers to deliver highly targeted and personalized video content at considerably lower costs than conventional solutions. Based on its unique Video Intelligence Architecture™ (VIA), RGB’s VIA product family simplifies management and delivers scalable, multi-function capability in a single, programmable platform, allowing video service providers to leverage existing infrastructure, while building an advanced foundation to meet the needs of the rapidly growing market for personalized video services.
For more information about RGB Networks and its unique video processing solutions, please visit www.rgbnetworks.com.
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U.S. contact:
John Giddings
Mobility Public Relations
Tel: +1 650 245-2782
jgiddings@mobilitypr.com
China contact:
Pao-hui Wang
RGB Networks
Cell: +86-13816110866
Tel: +86-10-84475455
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