Quiptel is back at TV Connect, a year after the company debuted its innovative media delivery platform for live and on-demand content to multiple devices, a technology that includes a proprietary adaptive bit rate-like streaming solution that is converted into HLS inside a device player that is also provided by Quiptel. The firm also now offers native HLS content ingest designed to improve QoE thanks to downstream smart routing and an intelligent client (from Quiptel).
The platform uses server-side management to dictate bit rates that different clients should get, rather than let devices compete for as much bandwidth as they can grab. This helps to balance the needs of competing devices. There is a reduced packet overhead for the streaming solution as well, which makes up just 10% of the video data payload, the vendor claimed last year.
Quiptel promises fast start-up times and a quick response to demands for more data, like when the buffer is getting short of video. This is achieved by opening up multiple streaming sessions for the same programme and then merging the packet streams into one once they are inside the client device. You can read more about the technology here.
Last September the company announced that the Quiptel Media Platform (QMP) had been integrated with the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) revenue security solution. The company announced EUROSTAR Group of the UAE as an integrator in March and at this year’s TV Connect the company is highlighting another partnership, with Geniatech, an Android platform STB manufacturer and Smart TV platform developer.
“Geniatech and Quiptel are key partners in their latest shared customer in Canada and we look forward to many more joint deployments with Quiptel,†says Mike Decker, VP Sales & Marketing at Geniatech. Quiptel says its ‘Partner Programme’ is proving extremely productive. “We are all best-of-breed in our respective categories, enabling our customers to buy into a pre-integrated solution that reduces costs and time-to-market,†Quiptel says.
Quiptel is using the strapline “Streaming is the new Broadcasting†and championing the use of OTT as a way to deliver new services. The company calls its ABR-like solution ‘Intelligent Adaptive Transfer Rate’, or iATR. “Going beyond the simple ABR approach, our innovative technical architecture ensures that our customers can save bandwidth, improve QoS whilst also providing their end-users with a significantly better QoE, especially with live content,†the company says. “The Quiptel Media Platform is ideally suited to delivering consistent, high quality HD video streams to a full range of devices.â€
