NVision offers H.264 HD encoding platform

Telairity today announced that NVISION, a leading supplier of routers, router control, and master control systems for broadcast and post production, is adding Telairity’s H.264 HD real-time encoding platform to its product line-up in a principal reseller agreement. NVISION’s product announcement and first product shipments are targeted for Q1 of 2007. This new move aims simultaneously to broaden NVISION’s product portfolio and make Telairity’s breakthrough encoder technology available to a wide range of customers in the broadcast, satellite, cable, IPTV, and telecommunications sectors.

Telairity’s H.264 encoding platform is an essential technology for building cost-effective HDTV services that deliver low-latency, high-quality HD video at bit rates of 6 Mbps to 12 Mbps. These low bit rates enable more HD channels within the defined bandwidth and thus provide an opportunity to increase revenue per distribution channel. In addition to satellite broadcasting, applications for the Telairity H.264 HD encoder will include news and sports streaming, content aggregation, cable, terrestrial and IPTV distribution, VOD, and video servers.

Telairity’s H.264 HD encoding platform is scalable and fully software-programmable for easy feature and functionality upgrades over time. Operating in real time, it uses the Main Profile, Level 4 H.264/AVC standard for HD video compression.

“Our agreement with NVISION provides a strong sales channel for Telairity’s encoder products into satellite, cable, IPTV, telco and TV networks, where the NVISION name has long been the recognized leader for technical excellence in innovative broadcast technology and superior customer service,” said Howard Sachs, president and CEO of Telairity. “NVISION is an outstanding partner, helping us drive the worldwide broadcast industry transition to HD with Telairity’s AVC encoding technology.”

The addition of Telairity’s H.264 encoding platform to NVISION’s product line of high-performance, high-reliability, cost-effective routers, router control, and master control systems gives the wide spectrum of broadcast content providers a single world-class vendor for their resolution-independent, multiformat, signal processing and signal management equipment needs.

“Telairity’s encoding platform is the industry’s best-in-class solution for H.264 HD compression and will help our global customers make a smooth transition to multichannel HD programming using the latest compression standard,” said Chuck Meyer, president and CEO of NVISION. “Telairity and NVISION share a common mission of developing innovative technologies that raise the bar for quality programming, and at the same time give broadcast providers products with superior performance, value, and ease of use.”