ARRIS VIPr™ Video Transcoder

Meet the expanded demand for high bandwidth video services over the existing delivery infrastructure

	Manage all transcoding, recoding, and down conversion with a flexible, high-performance platform
	Improve bandwidth efficiency and system reliability with an integrated, high-performance Intel chipset
	Maximize video asset quality with advanced recoding that repurposes original MPEG data
	Preserve network capacity by transporting MPEG-4 across the network and transcoding close to the edge

Operators are rolling out additional HD and niche video channels to provide the best video offer in the market place. These expanded services are stressing the capacity of the existing delivery system. The revolutionary ARRIS VIPr network video transcoder delivers state-of-the-art video and audio coding for dramatic gains in bandwidth efficiency and system reliability. The VIPr platform simplifies head-end complexity and improves reliability with an integrated platform that puts decoding, recoding, and closed-loop multiplexing on a single, state-of-the-art Intel quad-core chipset. The powerful, programmable ARRIS VIPr provides maximum flexibility with “best in class” MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 coding quality and efficiency, as well as HD to SD down conversion. With ARRIS VIPr, operators easily convert off-air HD broadcast “must carry” channels to SD format to support existing customers and do it very efficiently: down convert just one master copy to support both HD and SD tiers.

ARRIS VIPr dual-pass solutions are extremely flexible, supporting HD and SD transcoding or recoding, SD and HD multiplexing, high-density MPEG-2 intelligent recoding, MPEG-4 to MPEG-2 transcoding, CBR for switched video applications, and VBR for 4:1 HD. VIPr video coding efficiency and quality is exceptional. Advanced encoding algorithms utilize original MPEG compression data – a feature unique to the ARRIS video encoding and transcoding family of solutions – to deliver unequaled quality during video transcoding or recoding. Operators can also identify new opportunities with applications like rate clamping and ad splicing with switched digital video. The ARRIS VIPr is a highly-efficient, cost-effective, reliable platform that can be reconfigured and repurposed to painlessly deliver better performance and new features through software upgrades as video encoding algorithms improve and MSOs’ requirements change.