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At the NAB, 2011 trade show in Las Vegas, ATEME featured live demonstrations of the Kyrion™ encoder and TITAN transcoder product lines. The latest Kyrion encoder model, CM3102, adds built in DVB-S/S2 modulation in a single rack unit. Contribution demos revealed the compression performance improvements of ATEME’s Gen4 encoding core on FPGA, the latest release for in the field upgrade of Kyrion encoders. Gen4 is the result of 18 months of algorithmic research and delivers a video quality gain of up to 1.5 dB of PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) on very complex scenes compared to Gen3 that is currently widely deployed. Gen4 also includes AVC-I encoding at up to 120 Mbps — an industry first by ATEME just two years after the introduction of MPEG-4 4:2:2 10-bit. AVC-I is an alternative use case for MPEG-4 encoding that delivers fully editable and interoperable streams with a very low latency.

On the decoder side, user oriented optimizations of the DR8400 model on display at the show include simultaneous SD and HD outputs, the ability to demodulate a signal for delivery both compressed over IP and uncompressed over HD-SDI, easier configuration from the front panel and more probing and monitoring functions on the web interface. ATEME Converged media solutions presented at the show revolved around the TITAN carrier grade platform for massive parallel transcoding. TITAN is offered pre-integrated with several encryption/DRM options and Adaptive Streaming origin servers to form a complete multi-screen delivery solution. New workflow features presented at the show for the TITAN family of transcoders included the support of Microsoft® Smooth streaming, 3D SEI messages (Cable Labs 3.0), extended Quicktime® file input formats, and the addition of a SOAP interface for 3rd party integration.