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Video consumption is growing at explosive rates and innovative, adaptable platforms are required to suite changing market demands. Video On Demand (VOD) reached 10 billion orders in 2008 and Video on the web exceeds 14.3 billion views per month. In order for cable operators to stay in the forefront of the industry, it is imperative to support media over any network. ARRIS ConvergeMedia solutions realize these changing environments - conforming & expanding our offerings to suit the needs of the operator, as well as the end user.
ARRIS ConvergeMedia™ Series provides personalized & demand driven video solutions that adapt to the consumers changing video consumption habits via a suite of application management & distribution platforms that capitalize on our history of innovation and partners requirements, to achieve core design values.
- Deliver any media, over any network, in any format to any consumer
- Improve subscriber services and create new revenue
- Improve operating margins
- Optimize capital resources
- Enhance operator competitiveness
- Solutions you expect from a global communications company specializing in data, voice and video
ConvergeMedia™ Application Platforms offer a complete suite of solutions to manage personalized media experiences and deliver advertising revenue across all networks and devices.
- Full-cycle content management: Acquisition to Consumption
- Media asset management and intelligence
- Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Content
- Lights Out operations
- Upgrades with minimal or no interruption to service
- High availability capabilities including clustering of ConvergeMedia Distribution components
- Scalability and Active Failover
- Session and Resource Management
- Allocate content to utilize bandwidth, disk capacity, and address popularity issues
- Comprehensive & Advanced Linear Advertising Insertion (DPI)
- Dynamic OnDemand ad insertion
- Intelligent, revenue based algorithm design
- Traffic & Billing: scheduling, measurement, and verification reporting
- SCTE 130 compliance for addressability
- OnDemand client support for STB and other devices
- Personalized Services: guides, search, navigation & recommendations
- Enable viewers to select VOD programs from a website and have those programs displayed on the VOD set-top application specific to the account
ConvergeMedia™ Application Platforms reduce operational complexity with leading management tools that provide real time visibility, control, and error notifications to identify and correct problems before they impact revenue. Innovative advertising offerings provide new revenue opportunities, bringing more and better programming content and driving increased VOD viewings.
ConvergeMedia™ Distribution Platforms are designed to consolidate and distribute multiple media types over any network, to any device.
- ARRIS XMS: any (“X”) Media Stored and streamed
- High storage to streams ratio
- Ideal for centralized, or lightly-networked distributed architectures
- 100% COTS based platform
- Optimized cost/performance across 200 to 20,000 streams
- Adaptive Storage Design
- SAS, SATA, SSD or RAM
- Additional cost/performance optimization
- 2 to 96 TB storage
- Cost-effective for Network PVR (nPVR) applications
- Unified Platform: Built-in Linear & OnDemand Advertising support
ARRIS ConvergeMedia™ Unified Platform allows operators to manage all aspects of VOD and Advertising Insertion – the system, the content, and the business all from a single, integrated platform that provides operators with the ability to achieve maximum revenue from each market.
- Consolidate Linear Ad Insertion, Advanced Advertising, VOD, SDV, nDVR, and StartOver platforms
- Lower operating expenses by managing one, single platform
- Expand system effectiveness while gaining additional revenue opportunities
- Utilize existing real estate to expand offerings and preserve investments
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