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IPTV -- End-to-end Solution for Video-over-IP

HaiVision’s Video Furnace System 5 provides a secure, easy to use, and simple to deploy end-to-end system for encoding and distributing live video to computers and set top boxes, for creating scheduled playback channels for enterprise TV and signage, and for recording content and delivering video on demand.

More uses, more users!! Video Furnace is a complete IP video solution. The viewing experience to access live and recorded channels as well as on demand content is provided through the “zero footprint” InStream™ player for the desktop and to fixed monitors and displays through the STINGRAY™ set top box. With fine grain control of all viewers and displays, Video Furnace is the ideal system for managing and distributing enterprise video securely, for establishing HD signage throughout a facility, for providing on demand material, and for capturing, organizing, and reviewing events.

End-to-End H.264 Video Furnace provides seamless end-to-end capabilities. The Furnace Portal Server controls the direct and secure distribution of SD and HD H.264 video and MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SD video to both the InStream™ player and the STINGRAY set top box. The Furnace Playback Manager supports scheduled channels for IP video broadcast and signage. The Furnace Media Server enables video-on-demand. Leveraging the efficiencies of H.264 video compression, high definition media is available to all users. Furthermore, Video Furnace incorporates direct support of HaiVision’s revolutionary BARRACUDA™ and MAKITO™ H.264 encoder delivering live SD and HD content at bit rates from 150 kbps to 15 Mbps.

PLAYER/STB SYNCHRONIZATION
Having 100% control of the InStream™ player and the STINGRAY STB's enables a unique benefit - the ability to synchronize the desktop players with the set top boxes. One application example is delivering video to a financial trading floor. While listening to private audio of their favorite broadcast using InStream™ on their desktop, traders can look up and view the associated video on centrally located flat panels - the audio in sync with the video.

HILO STREAMING
The advantages of HaiVision’s encoder technology (such as the MAKO, MAKITO and BARRACUDA) are perfectly suited to the Video Furnace IP video distribution system. One such feature is HiLo Streaming. Encoders with HiLo can simultaneously emit full bandwidth high resolution streams and low bandwidth “reduced resolution” streams. This allows Video Furnace to provide users with a choice of streams best suited to their network or system capabilities without any transcoding delays. 

The “Zero Footprint” InStream™ Player Unique to the Video Furnace system is the InStream™ player technology. InStream™ is the industry’s only client/server based MPEG compliant desktop and set top box viewing technology. InStream™ is not browser based, but can be accessed through any browser. InStream™ is platform independent allowing it to run on Windows, Mac, Linux, or Sun Solaris 10 systems. When a user requests to view video, the Furnace Portal Manager sends the compact, highly optimized InStream™ player to the user’s computer providing a feature rich video viewing environment. When the user closes InStream™, it is removed from the client computer without a trace. With InStream™, there is never anything to install or maintain on the client computers and no plug-ins. This eliminates need for the IT group to harmonize user computers in any way – nothing to install and nothing to maintain.  Because InStream™ is incredibly easy to use, does not require installation, works on any platform, and has unlimited and controlled player distribution, managers can be assured that they will have broad scale user adoption of all their media efforts.

Capture, Create, Schedule Video Furnace provides administrators with powerful tools for the recording and editing of content.  The recording tools include a scheduled network video recorder
(NVR), the ability to record live “on the fly”, and the option to continually archive past programming so you never miss an event. To organize media assets, Video Furnace includes powerful editing, bookmarking, and library metadata tools.  Video Furnace also includes advanced administrative tools for programming viewing channels, either live streams from encoders or playback content from disk.  With Video Furnace’s detailed interface, schedules can be set for up to 30 years in advance. For live television, up to two weeks of electronic programming data can be captured and made available at all times.

Conditional Access Many organizations can employ various techniques for user access control. Some basic methods including web access page control and network based restrictions. The most secure access method, however, is to integrate the organization’s authentication system with the Video Furnace Conditional Access connector, regardless of the authentication system in use. By combining AES encryption native to the Video Furnace system with conditional access organizations can be confident that their private information remains secure and that any content arrangements for media distribution and copy protection are strictly adhered to.

Command & Control Unique to the Video Furnace system is the Command & Control module giving administrators full control over all InStream™ desktop players and STINGRAY set top boxes. Administrators can select the start-up state of any player or STB, adjust the operational characteristic of any player or STB on-line either on-the-fly, or according to a schedule. Administrators can also send messages to any one player or STB, or any group, or even to the entire viewing audience. Command & Control is an extremely powerful tool that can be used for anything from simple signage scheduling to user base messaging to forcing channel overrides.

Reporting Detailed reports of viewership are key to managing any IP video system. However, the combined power of Command & Control and Conditional Access allow administrators to determine the exact history of any viewer to an impressively detailed level. All actions of on the InStream™ player or STINGRAY set top box can be reported on, and with Conditional Access, to a user level. Not only can administrators determine who viewed what (an essential element of HIPAA compliance in medical), but also information on player behavior during any viewing session. So, for example, administrators can establish if someone muted the audio or minimized the window during an important training session.