Anevia, Selevision Jointly Deploy High-Definition Video over IP Solution at KAUST

Aramco has selected Selevision and Anevia, providers of video service infrastructure to deploy advanced standard definition/high (SD/HD) video over IP solution for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

 

With the capacity of housing 20,000 people, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is in Saudi Arabia and is a graduate-level research university.

 

KAUST was in need for a high level of reliability and unlimited possibilities for its video service, in order to offer educational tools to teachers as well as grant entertainment services to students, according to Aramco.

 

Aramco chose Anevia’s (News - Alert) and Selevision’s technologies that introduced TV and VOD (video on demand) solutions to KAUST. Selevision’s middleware powered set-top-boxes (STB) integrated with Anevia’s FLAMINGO and TOUCAN solution were utilized for this purpose and offered digital signage and TV sets solutions.

 

Anevia’s FLAMINGO is an analogue IP encoder for TV channels. Flamingo 220 Series has the capacity to retransmit up to 60 encrypted or clear TV channels over IP, while the Flamingo 660 are hospitality gateways fully designed to receive and stream a mix of six multiplexes or transponders over IP and can broadcast all main TV channels in one box.

 

The IP encoders are built to stream analogue TV channels encoded in MPEG-2 SD through the building network with reception on IP set-top boxes or PCs. Anevia’s FLAMINGO performs the tasks an analogue receiver, encoder and an IP streamer. It also provides a Web interface for easy management, according to Anevia.

 

Anevia says its Flamingo 220S is developed for digital video broadcasting, a forward error coding and modulation standard, for satellite television and DVB-S2.

 

Anevia Toucan is a VOD server range that is specially developed to the hospitality industry combining all on-demand services. Enabling value added video services such as personal recording, video-on-demand. Toucan is designed to optimize costs as well as storage, said Anevia.

 

Selevision said that it re-designed the original specified SD solution to a full fledged HD solution at KAUST by making use of over 100 HD TVs in order to offer video services to all students, faculty, staff and families.