Haivision Network
Video
4445
Garand
Montréal, QC, Canada H4R 2H9
Toll
Free: +1 (877) 224-5445
Website:
www.haivision.com
Haivision Network Video Contact:
Anna Kozel
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Agency
Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
Tel: +1 (954) 392-6990
Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
Company
Quote:
“Smartphones,
tablets, and other connected devices aren’t just a convenience anymore, but a
way of life. As a result, the enterprise has gone mobile. Organizations across
all market segments are challenged to bring their content to the Internet in a
way that’s accessible to the multitude of devices and platforms that their
viewers are using. Haivision’s IP video solutions and Internet media services
simplify and automate the process of online video streaming, and our powerful
new apps help enterprises of any size take their message to viewers globally.”
— Peter Maag, Haivision’s chief marketing officer
HyperStream™
Live — Internet Media Services
Haivision’s HyperStream™ Live is a simplified and automated
service that brings the power of cloud transcoding and CDN connectivity to
content producers, so that they can deliver a much better visual experience to
every Internet viewer. Cloud transcoding allows streamers to maximize uplink
bandwidth by sending a single high-quality stream from the source to the cloud,
and then uses the cloud’s abundant computing power and network capacity to
create the various bit rates necessary for adaptive streaming. A user-managed,
pay-per-use software as a service (SaaS), HyperStream Live simplifies and
automates transcoding in the cloud (Amazon EC2™) and global delivery over a CDN
(Akamai). HyperStream Live is a single portal for any global streaming need and
it debuts at InfoComm 2012.
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Image
Caption: Haivision HyperStream™ Live Internet Media Services
Viper™
KB Portable
Internet Encoder and Viper MAX Standalone Recorder
At
InfoComm 2012, Haivision will showcase the Viper™ KB, a compact, portable
appliance that simplifies Internet streaming. With a very simple touch-screen
interface, users can quickly stream full HD at multiple bit rates for Dynamic
Flash® and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) networks. In addition,
Haivision will showcase Viper MAX, a stand-alone, dual-channel
performance-streaming, recording, VOD, and publishing appliance for the
conference room, classroom, and medical procedure room.
Image Link: www.ingearpr.com/Haivision/Viper.zip
Image
Caption: Haivision Viper™ KB Multistream IP Video
Streamer/Recorder
Furnace™
IP Video System — InStream™ Mobile
Bridging
the enterprise and the Internet, Haivision’s Furnace™ IP video distribution
system — renowned for delivering real-time broadcast video securely throughout
facilities and across campuses — now directly supports any device, anywhere.
InStream™ Mobile enables authenticated viewers to access live Furnace video
channels on the go using tablets and mobile devices. The Furnace administrative
suite can deliver any live Furnace channel to Dynamic Flash® and
Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) networks and CDN targets. The
InStream Mobile app will be available in the Apple® iTunes®
App StoreSM in August 2012.
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Image Caption: Haivision VF Mobile InStream™ Mobile App
CoolSign
5.0™ Digital Signage System
Haivision
is previewing CoolSign™ 5.0 at InfoComm 2012, bringing together scalability,
performance, Internet video streaming, and a new Web interface. With quantum
scalability and performance improvements for addressing broad networks of
thousands of digital signs, CoolSign demonstrates how it incorporates a
simplified Web interface to upload, manage, and distribute content. The new
workflows will equally enable store owners and corporate administrators to
customize the local media experience easily. Haivision will also launch
CoolSign 4.6 at InfoComm, which fully supports high-quality H.264 transport
streams, such as those available from Haivision's Furnace™ IP video system, and
Internet-based RTMP streams, such as those available from Haivision KulaByte™
and HyperStream™ Internet streaming platforms, enabling end-to-end media
management with Haivision.
Image Link: www.ingearpr.com/Haivision/CoolSign.zip
Image Caption: Haivision CoolSign™ Digital Signage Solution
What: The Enterprise Goes Mobile
When: June 13 from 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Where: Haivision Booth N1857
Who: Join Haivision for a lunch-and-learn event covering the company’s latest online video delivery solutions
To RSVP for
Haivision’s press conference or if you’re unable to attend and would like to
schedule a one-on-one meeting, please contact rachel@ingearpr.com.
Join Haivision for “Technology Innovations in OTT Multiplatform
Video Delivery” as part of the InfoComm University Sessions on Wednesday, June
13 from 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (session ID: IS026)
Company
Overview:
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence
centers in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global
sales and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through
value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks and registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
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Haivision
Network Video
4445 Garand
Montréal, QC, Canada H4R 2H9
Toll Free: +1 (877) 224-5445
Haivision Network Video Contact:
Anna Kozel
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Website: www.haivision.com
Agency Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
Tel: +1
(954) 392-6990
Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
Company Quote:
“At
Streaming Media East 2012, Haivision is showcasing important new technology
designed to simplify and optimize Internet streaming. We will demonstrate
HyperStream™, our SaaS and managed-service offering that takes advantage of newly
optimized KulaByte™ transcoder software, and simplifies cloud and CDN services
for everyone. This offering is significant for Haivision customers because it
gives our entire installed base of Makito™ encoders and Furnace™ IP video
systems the ability to connect directly to HyperStream, immediately enabling
thousands of users to become Internet broadcasters of extremely high-quality
ABR video.” — Peter Maag, Haivision’s chief marketing officer
New at Streaming
Media East 2012:
HyperStream™ Live — Internet Media Services
Haivision brings HyperStream™ Live to Streaming Media East
2012. HyperStream Live is a simplified and automated service that brings the
power of cloud transcoding and CDN connectivity to content producers, so that
they can deliver a much better visual experience to every Internet viewer.
Cloud transcoding allows streamers to maximize uplink bandwidth by sending a
single high-quality stream from the source to the cloud, and then uses the
cloud’s abundant computing power and network capacity to create the various bit
rates necessary for adaptive streaming. A user-managed, pay-per-use software as
a service (SaaS), HyperStream Live simplifies and automates transcoding in the
cloud (Amazon EC2™) and global delivery over a CDN (Akamai). HyperStream Live
is a single portal for any global streaming need.
Photo Link: www.ingearpr.com/Haivision/HyperStream.zip
Image
Caption: Haivision HyperStream™ Live Internet Media Services
Viper™ KB Portable
Internet Encoder and Viper MAX Stand-Alone Recorder
At
Streaming Media East 2012, Haivision will showcase the Viper™ KB, a compact,
portable appliance that simplifies Internet streaming. With a very simple
touch-screen interface, users can quickly stream full HD at multiple bit rates
for Dynamic Flash® and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) networks.
Haivision will also showcase Viper MAX, a stand-alone, dual-channel
performance-streaming, recording, VOD, and publishing appliance for the
conference room, classroom, and medical procedure room.
Photo Link: www.ingearpr.com/Haivision/Viper.zip
Image
Caption: Haivision Viper™ KB Multistream IP Video
Streamer/Recorder
KulaByte™ Live Transcoder — Introducing 4.0 for Linux®
At
Streaming Media East 2012, Haivision will debut the KulaByte™ live H.264 video
transcoder. Now available for Linux® —the operating system of choice
for reliable cloud deployment — KulaByte 4.0 delivers 30 percent
performance gains and a 30 to 40 percent cost reduction when
deployed in cloud environments, such as Amazon’s EC2™. KulaByte is one of the first transcoders available to
take advantage of cloud computing efficiencies, delivering multiple bit rate
HLS and RTMP streams for adaptive/dynamic streaming. In addition, version 4.0 introduces a simplified
user interface and support for closed captioning, ad insertion, and ingestion
of H.264 in MPEG-2 Transport Stream encapsulation.
Photo Link: www.ingearpr.com/Haivision/KulaByte.zip
Image
Caption: Haivision KulaByte™ Transcoder
Meet With Haivision at Streaming Media East 2012
Interested in setting up a meeting with
Haivision at Streaming Media East 2012? Please contact Rachel Dwyer at +1 (801)
266-1504 or rachel@ingearpr.com.
Company Overview:
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence centers
in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global sales
and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through
value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks and
registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective
owners.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
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MONTREAL and CHICAGO — April 26, 2012 — Haivision’s KulaByte™ 4.0 software for efficient high-quality cloud transcoding received the 2012 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award from the editorial staff of TV Technology magazine at the 2012 NAB Show. KulaByte is a software-based live H.264 video transcoder that delivers the highest quality RTMP Dynamic Streaming for Flash® video and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for iOS devices. Now available for Linux, KulaByte 4.0 delivers significant gains in transcoding performance and enables cost savings.
With KulaByte 4.0, Haivision has migrated the award-winning transcoding engine to Linux to simplify software deployment within cloud computing environments, which improves long-term performance and reliability, as well as taking advantage of lower-cost cloud instances. KulaByte 4.0 Linux-support delivers a 30 percent performance gain so that high-resolution HD and more HD channels can be supported on each cloud instance. With Linux, users can take advantage of a 30 to 40 percent cost reduction of cloud computing instances, such as on Amazon’s EC2™. Additionally, the KulaByte transcoder introduces a simplified user interface and support for closed captioning, ad insertion, and ingestion of H.264 in MPEG-2 Transport Stream encapsulation.
Now celebrating its 12th anniversary, TV Technology’s STAR Award is designed to honor and showcase the outstanding technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. A panel of judges consisting of TV Technology editors, columnists, and industry experts reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and overall contribution to the industry, before submitting their award nominees.
“The NAB Show serves as the launching pad for thousands of new products and services for audio and video professionals,” said Tom Butts, editor-in-chief of TV Technology.. “Our panel of judges walks the show floor in search of the most innovative technologies. The products and services that we select for the STAR Award demonstrate their ability to help advance the acquisition and distribution of entertainment and information across the media spectrum.”
“We are honored that TV Technology recognized KulaByte’s innovation as a premier transcoding product at the NAB Show,” said Peter Maag, chief marketing officer for Haivision “Haivision is focused on continuously optimizing cloud transcoding technology so our clients can be more efficient and deliver the richest media experience across multiple platforms. Receiving the STAR Award is important to Haivision, especially to our engineers, who work tirelessly on making improvements for our clients.”
KulaByte cloud transcoding technology is used extensively by Haivision clients and within Haivision’s HyperStream™ cloud transcoding service, enabling major global streaming events such as South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin City Limits, the NASCAR Sprint Series, and the Masters Golf Tournament. The KulaByte 4.0 transcoder is available as a server appliance or as software-only for installation within cloud computing environments.
TV Technology (www.tvtechnology.com) is the industry’s leading magazine for technology news and reviews, and is celebrating its 29th year covering the television industry. The magazine is published by NewBay Media LLC, the world’s largest publisher of audio and video publications.
More information about Haivision’s KulaByte 4.0 is available at www.haivision.com.
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About Haivision Network Video
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence centers
in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global sales
and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through
value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
For further information, please contact:
|
Haivision Network Video Contact: Anna Kozel, Marketing and Communications Manager Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445 Email: anna@haivision.com Website: www.haivision.com |
Agency Contact: Veronica Esbona InGear PR Tel: +1 (954) 392-6990 Email: veronica@ingearpr.com |
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Haivision Offers Internet Streaming Upgrades to all Makito™ and Barracuda™ H.264 Encoders, Furnace™ IP Video Systems, and Viper™ Stream and Record Appliances
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — April 17, 2012 — Haivision
today announced that it is empowering its latest products with over-the-top
(OTT) streaming capabilities as well as adding a “single-click connect” feature
to its HyperStream™ cloud-transcoding and CDN connectivity service. HyperStream
unifies, simplifies, and automates cloud-based transcoding on Amazon EC2™ with
connectivity to the Akamai HD Network for global content delivery.
The company is supporting the launch of HyperStream Internet media services by
incorporating Internet streaming capabilities (RTMP) across its popular product
line. The products will now be able to connect directly to HyperStream Live,
Haivision’s software as a service (SaaS) for Internet media delivery. With
HyperStream, users can take advantage of cloud transcoding to use uplink
bandwidth more efficiently, delivering the highest quality RTMP Dynamic
Streaming for Flash® video and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
for iOS devices.
“With the acquisition of the KulaByte™ technology, Haivision’s expertise and
commitment to Internet streaming is strengthened by enabling OTT capabilities
across our product line,” said Mirko Wicha, president and CEO of Haivision
Network Video. “We are giving our installed base over-the-top capabilities
through a series of product upgrades, while enabling cloud transcoding and CDN
connectivity with the launch of HyperStream Internet media services. This is
certainly the largest single increase in Internet video capabilities the
streaming media industry has ever seen.”
Haivision’s Makito™ encoder is the world’s most popular HD H.264 video
streaming appliance, widely deployed within the education, enterprise, medical,
sports, entertainment, and federal markets. The encoder is renowned for its low
latency, compact form factor and density, and performance handling up to
1080p60 HD. A no-charge upgrade will be made available for the Makito, giving
it RTMP and HyperStream Live connect capabilities and thus, enabling thousands
of new Internet broadcasters. Additionally, Haivision will issue OTT upgrades
to the Barracuda™ SD H.264 encoder, the Furnace™ IP video system, and the
Viper™ stream and record appliance.
More information about Haivision is available at www.haivision.com.
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About Haivision Network Video
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence centers
in Beaverton, Oregon; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global sales
and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through
value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
For further information, please contact:
|
Haivision
Network Video Contact:
|
Agency Contact:
|
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HyperStream™ Provides Live Video Streaming Automation for Cloud Transcoding On Amazon EC2™ and Content Delivery Over the Akamai HD Network
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — April 16, 2012 —
Haivision today announced HyperStream™, the company’s new Internet media
services portfolio. HyperStream simplifies and automates media distribution
through cloud transcoding and CDN connectivity for delivering the highest
quality, adaptive, live HD video over-the-top (OTT) to Internet viewers.
Available as both a user-controlled software as a service (SaaS), and as a
fully managed service, HyperStream brings together the power of cloud-based
transcoding on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™ (Amazon EC2™), and easy
connectivity to Akamai’s SOLA Media Solutions for global delivery, security,
and analytics.
HyperStream Live (www.hyperstreamlive.com)
is a pay-per-use live cloud transcoding SaaS, which enables
simplified, adaptive delivery of source video content to desktop and mobile
devices over the Internet. HyperStream Concierge is a fully managed service for
Internet media delivery, including cloud transcoding, CDN distribution, video
player configuration, event setup and management, and on-site support as
needed.
With HyperStream, users can readily establish live transcoding and stream
management instances automatically within any or all of Amazon’s eight EC2
regions around the world. Initiating multiple instances simultaneously can
deliver higher regional quality of service and greater resiliency. Available by
the hour, HyperStream allows users to reserve and initiate transcoding services
within minutes. HyperStream also provides seamless connectivity to the Akamai
HD Network, the world’s largest media distribution network designed
specifically to accelerate diverse video applications.
“HyperStream provides an easy-to-use layer on top of cloud transcoding and
video CDN services for our users,” said Peter Maag, Haivision’s chief marketing
officer. “It not only simplifies and automates complex technical setups and
processes, but also streamlines the associated business relationships. As a
single point of contact for our clients, HyperStream combines live video
encoding, cloud transcoding, and distribution into a unified, managed
environment. We are adding HyperStream connectivity to our products to drive
over-the-top media adoption throughout our user base.”
“The benefits of transcoding and encoding content in the cloud are clear,” said
Brad Rinklin, chief marketing officer at Akamai. “Moving these complex
transactions to the cloud, especially for live, global events online, translates
to lower costs and higher bandwidth availability. Combined with the delivery,
security, and analytic features in Akamai’s SOLA Media Solution portfolio,
HyperStream adds new capabilities to the live video
streaming ecosystem for our valued customers.”
Cloud-based transcoding has two important benefits for live video workflows.
Adaptive and dynamic streaming techniques require many streams of different
bitrates to be made available to users. Cloud transcoding allows operators to
minimize onsite encoding hardware and maximize available uplink bandwidth from
event locations by sending a single high-bandwidth stream to a live transcoder.
Then HyperStream uses the cloud’s ample bandwidth and computing capacity to
replicate that stream into the many required formats needed.
Concurrently, Haivision will enable more than 10,000 devices with OTT
capabilities by offering “Connect to HyperStream Live” functionality to the
installed base and as part of future releases of Makito™ HD H.264 encoders,
Barracuda™ SD H.264 encoders, Furnace™ IP video systems, and Viper™ IP video
record-and-stream appliances.
Haivision will be demonstrating the HyperStream portfolio at the 2012 NAB Show
in Las Vegas, April 16-19 and expects to launch the user-controlled HyperStream
Live SaaS environment in June 2012.
HyperStream
has been deployed as a managed service for more than a year, and the Haivision
HyperStream team has supported numerous global events including Austin City
Limits, SXSW, The Masters Golf Tournament, and the European Commission’s EDD.
More information about Haivision is available at www.haivision.com.
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About Haivision Network Video
Haivision delivers advanced technology
for streaming, recording, managing, and distributing secure IP video and
interactive media within the enterprise, education, medical/healthcare, and
federal/military markets. Haivision is a private company based in Montreal and
Chicago, with technical excellence centers in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas;
and Hamburg, Germany. With a global sales and support organization, Haivision
distributes its products through value-added resellers, system integrators,
distributors, and OEMs worldwide. More information is available at
www.haivision.com.
All trademarks appearing herein are the property of their
respective owners.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
For further information, please contact:
|
Haivision Network Video Contact:
|
Agency Contact:
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Haivision is the First and Only Company to Achieve JITC
Certification for 1080p HD Performance,
and is Unique in Offering Both Airborne
and Ground-Based JITC Certified HD Encoders
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — April 10, 2012 — Haivision, an industry leading provider of advanced video networking, digital signage, and IP video distribution solutions, today announced that its Makito™ SDI and Makito Air™ high definition H.264 encoders have received Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certification — a U.S. government designation that guarantees interoperability of fielded systems, and ensures products comply with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) standards for encoding Full Motion Video (FMV) for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance applications (ISR).
The certification is granted only after JITC labs have performed exhaustive tests to validate compliance with the DoD Motion Imagery Standards Profile (MISP). Many DoD programs require both MISP compliance and JITC certification to ensure end-to-end interoperability with other FMV processing, management, and exploitation systems in use throughout the DoD and the intelligence community. Without JITC certification, customers have no way of knowing whether their encoded video will work with the entire FMV ecosystem currently deployed.
The Makito is Haivision’s flagship HD encoder and has been used widely throughout the DoD in support of global ISR applications in both airborne and ground applications. The Makito is the first and only JITC-certified H.264 encoder capable of 1080p60 resolutions, achieving Motion Imagery Standards Board’s (MISB) recommended practice for HD video distribution and acquisition — MISM Level 12 from RP 9720. As such, the Makito is uniquely and ideally suited for today’s advanced sensor technology.
With the commercial Makito and the ruggedized Makito Air reaching JITC and MISM Level 12 compliance, Haivision is the first and only company to achieve JITC certification for both airborne and ground-based encoding applications.
“Haivision made a company commitment to the ISR community in 2008,” said Mirko Wicha, CEO of Haivision. “We are constantly focused on increasing the capabilities and applications of our low latency, metadata friendly, full motion video systems.”
“We take our responsibility to this user community very seriously,” said Andy Vaughan, vice president of U.S. federal sales for Haivision. “Haivision’s U.S. federal team has worked diligently with ISR customers to ensure that our solutions meet their needs for mission-critical applications. JITC certification allows our customers to deploy field-proven, low-risk, off-the-shelf technology both on the ground and in the air.”
The JITC certification process validated several of Makito’s important features, including very efficient compression of SD/HD video per SMPTE specifications (CBR); KLV metadata insertion via serial, Ethernet (UDP), and SDI/VANC; and frame-synchronous KLV metadata support per MISB Standard 0604. The testing also confirmed that Makito supports very flexible encoding configurations for low bit rate applications, and HiLo-Streaming™ for multiple bit rates from the same video source.
The Makito Air is a DO-160-rated version of the non-ruggedized Makito board. Makito-SDI is available as a stand-alone appliance or can be installed in a 1-RU, 6-slot chassis, giving customers the best density and price performance available on the market.
Information about Haivision products and solutions is available at www.haivision.com.
About Haivision
Network Video
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence centers in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany.
With a global sales and support organization, Haivision distributes its
products through value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and
OEMs worldwide. More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
For further information, please contact:
Haivision
Network Video Contact:
Anna Kozel
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Website: www.haivision.com
Agency
Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
Tel: +1 (954) 392-6990
Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — Feb. 15, 2012 — Haivision today announced results for its fiscal year 2011. The company has achieved another year of significant revenue growth with a 47 percent increase over fiscal year 2010, contributing to a 50-percent CAGR over the past six years. Haivision technology is focused on intelligent media pipelines that incorporate video, graphics, and metadata to help customers to build, manage, and distribute its media content to users throughout an organization or across the Internet.
Haivision has also increased its profitability steadily, ending 2011 with its 16th consecutive quarter of positive EBITDA results. “The company has fueled its rapid growth over the past six years through organically generated profits rather than depending on outside capital,” said Mirko Wicha, president and CEO of Haivision.
Supported by the company’s strong fiscal performance, Haivision has been able to successfully acquire and integrate four software companies in just over two years — Video Furnace, CoolSign™, KulaByte™, and MontiVision Imaging Technologies — each with strong complementary technology and unique market positions. The acquisitions have significantly contributed to Haivision’s end-to-end proposition within the IP media delivery market, supporting the company’s leading position in high-performance H.264 video encoding with enterprise IP video management, digital signage, and Internet media encoding and transcoding.
Haivision released three new product technologies in 2011 that are expected to contribute significantly to the company’s continued growth. The Viper™ multichannel HD video recording and streaming appliance is positioned toward opportunities in both the medical and education markets. The Kraken real-time transcoding appliance is extending the well-established position of Haivision’s Piranha™ and Makito Air™ encoding products within the military intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance (ISR) markets. Finally, Haivision launched HyperStream™, an Internet media Cloud transcoding service based on KulaByte software transcoding. HyperStream enables over-the-top (OTT) media delivery within the broadcast, sports, entertainment, and faith markets.
“Haivision is now unique in providing end-to-end solutions bridging enterprise and Internet media applications,” said Peter Maag, chief marketing officer of Haivision. “We deliver best-in-class technologies and associated workflows for media delivery both inside and outside of the firewall.”
“Haivision is successful due to a unique combination of market understanding, channel dedication, technology leadership, and fiscal diligence,” added Wicha. “As our recent acquisitions mature within our channels and we extend our strengths within the enterprise towards OTT and mobile solutions, Haivision is very well positioned to continue its growth across our focus segments.”
Haivision now has over 160 employees across four continents. Haivision sells its products through more than 300 market-focused OEMs, integrators, and resellers globally. Supporting the channel partners and customers, Haivision has corporate and development offices in Montreal, Chicago, Beaverton, Austin, Hamburg, Dubai, and Hong Kong.
Information about Haivision products and solutions is available at www.haivision.com.
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About Haivision Network Video
Haivision delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise, education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence centers in Beaverton, Austin, and Hamburg. Having established a global sales and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide. More information is available at www.haivision.com.
For further information, please contact:
Haivision Contact:
Anna Kozel
Haivision Network Video
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Agency Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
Tel: +1.954.392.6990
Email:
veronica@ingearpr.com
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Distribute
Lectures From 90 Classrooms on Brand-New University Campus
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — April 5, 2012 — Haivision Network Video, a leading provider of the most advanced video networking, digital signage, and IP video distribution solutions, today announced that Zayed University, a leader in knowledge and education in the United Arab Emirates, is now equipped with the Furnace™ IP video system, 91 Makito™ HD encoders, and 10 Stingray™ set-top boxes (STBs), which together power the university’s new lecture-capture system. The end-to-end IP video system makes lectures from 90 classrooms available across the whole of Zayed University’s brand-new Abu Dhabi campus.
The new lecture-capture system encodes course lectures with Haivision’s HD Makito encoders at the lowest possible latency, 55 milliseconds. The Makito is a full-featured, high-performance encoder that combines the efficiencies of H.264 video compression and the image quality of full 1080p60 HD video. These encoded video streams are handled by the Furnace IP video system, a complete infrastructure that streams live lectures throughout the campus, while also recording, storing, and cataloging the lectures onto the university’s network for future access.
The Haivision IP video distribution system allows students, faculty, and staff to access the content and view the lectures either with Haivision’s “zero footprint” InStream™ soft player on their desktops and laptops, or via Haivision’s Stingray STBs on televisions. Moreover, the system requires very little effort from the university’s IT staff, providing ease of use for all users from anywhere on the new state-of-the-art campus.
Once a recorded session is archived, all of its catalog references are published in HTML onto the university’s network in a simple, intuitive Web catalog, which staff and students can access at either high or low quality — depending on the user’s network connection — thanks to the Makito’s HiLo-Streaming™ feature.
“We’re excited to be a part of Zayed University’s modern, new campus project — helping bring lectures to students on such a massive scale,” said Mohammed Ghafari, vice president of Haivision for the Middle East. “This grand project is a prime example of what Haivision can supply to the education market in the Middle Eastern region.”
In addition to providing flexible, secure, and easy-to-use video delivery of classroom lectures, Haivision’s equipment was easily integrated with a variety of other services that were deployed on the new campus. These include Zayed University’s new translation system, digital signage system, large format LED screens, and video conferencing/distance learning systems.
More information about Furnace, Makito, Stingray, and other Haivision products is available at www.haivision.com.
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About
Haivision Network Video
Haivision delivers advanced technology for
streaming, recording, managing, and distributing secure IP video and
interactive media within the enterprise, education, medical/healthcare, and
federal/military markets. Haivision is a private company based in Montreal and
Chicago, with technical excellence centers in Beaverton, Oregon; Austin, Texas;
and Hamburg, Germany. With a global sales and support organization, Haivision
distributes its products through value-added resellers, system integrators,
distributors, and OEMs worldwide. More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
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http://twitter.com/haivision
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www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
For further information, please contact:
Haivision Network Video Contact:
Anna Kozel, Marketing and
Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Website: www.haivision.com
Agency Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
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(954) 392-6990
Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
Next Generation of KulaByte Encoding Software Combines
the Highest Quality Live Video Transcoding
With Cloud Computing and Linux Simplicity
for Better Performance at Lower Cost
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — April 4, 2012 — Haivision is set to launch its KulaByte™ 4.0 software for efficient high-quality cloud transcoding at the 2012 NAB Show. KulaByte is a software-based live H.264 video transcoder that delivers the highest quality RTMP Dynamic Streaming for Flash® video and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for iOS devices. Now available for both Linux and Windows®, KulaByte 4.0 delivers significant gains in transcoding performance and cost savings.
With KulaByte 4.0, Haivision has migrated the award winning transcoding engine to Linux to simplify deployment of the software within cloud computing environments, improving long-term performance and reliability, and taking advantage of lower-cost cloud instances. KulaByte 4.0 Linux-support combines a 30 percent performance gain and a 30 to 40 percent cost reduction when deployed in cloud environments, such as Amazon’s EC2™. Additionally, the transcoder introduces a simplified user interface and support for closed captioning, ad insertion, and ingestion of H.264 in MPEG-2 Transport Stream encapsulation.
“KulaByte is cornerstone technology in the over-the-top (OTT) video streaming segment,” said Peter Maag, chief marketing officer for Haivision. “Migrating KulaByte to Linux was only natural. Linux is the foundation for almost all of Haivision’s systems and appliances. Now, KulaByte will benefit from true carrier-grade performance, both within the server systems and in the cloud.”
KulaByte cloud transcoding technology has been in use extensively by Haivision clients and within Haivision’s HyperStream™ cloud transcoding service, enabling major global streaming events such as South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin City Limits, the NASCAR Sprint Series, and the Masters Golf Tournament.
The KulaByte 4.0 transcoder will be available as a server appliance or as software-only for installation within cloud computing environments in Spring 2012.
More information about Haivision’s KulaByte 4.0 is available at www.haivision.com.
About
Haivision Network Video
Haivision delivers advanced technology for
streaming, recording, managing, and distributing secure IP video and
interactive media within the enterprise, education, medical/healthcare, and
federal/military markets. Haivision is a private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with
technical excellence centers in Beaverton, Ore.;
Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global sales and support
organization, Haivision distributes its products through value-added resellers,
system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide. More information is
available at www.haivision.com.
All
trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
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For further information, please contact:
Haivision Network Video Contact:
Anna Kozel, Marketing and
Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Website: www.haivision.com
Agency Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
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Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
KulaByte™ Live Internet Encoder and HyperStream™ Cloud
Transcoding Drive High-Quality Multiscreen Delivery of NPR Music Showcase
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — March 15, 2012 — Haivision today announced that its KulaByte™ Traveler live Internet encoder, supported by the company’s HyperStream™ cloud transcoding service, is powering multiscreen worldwide video delivery of performances from South by Southwest (SXSW). The Haivision solution enables live streaming of National Public Radio’s “South by Southwest: Live From Austin” music showcase, including three days of music at Stubbs and the Parish, as well as the SXSW Bruce Springsteen’s Keynote at http://www.npr.org/event/music/147357853/sxsw-2012. During SXSW, Haivision’s KulaByte technology also will power live concerts from the Fader Fort available at www.fuse.tv and music from Music Fog available at www.musicfog.com/live-broadcast.
“SXSW has become a premier showcase for up-and-coming artists, creators, content producers, and entertainers,” said Peter Maag, Haivision’s chief marketing officer. “The uniquely powerful combination of our portable KulaByte Traveler encoder with our HyperStream cloud transcoding service provides NPR and other organizations with a cost-effective way to get live HD video from SXSW shows to audiences across the globe.”
The ruggedized KulaByte Traveler encoder is based on the highly efficient H.264 compression standard delivering the highest quality Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic RTMP Flash®. This enables multiscreen delivery to the largest global penetration of playback devices such as the iPhone® and iPad®, as well as set-top boxes such as the RokuTM streaming player.
For the NPR music showcase, Haivision’s KulaByte and HyperStream technology is transcoding each HD feed from the ground into two stream types at eight different stream bit rates. In creating the different bit rate streams, the HyperStream cloud-based transcoder allows video production teams to utilize event venues’ limited Internet connectivity and stream at multiple bit rates to all viewer devices while maximizing video quality. This approach preserves the visual value of content while eliminating the cost and hassle associated with bringing a satellite uplink truck on site or special Internet provisioning.
More information about the KulaByte encoder, HyperStream service, and the complete Haivision product family is available at www.haivision.com.
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About Haivision Network Video
Haivision delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise, education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence centers in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global sales and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide. More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks
appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
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For
further information, please contact:
Haivision
Network Video Contact:
Anna
Kozel
Marketing
and Communications Manager
Tel:
+1 (514) 334-5445
Email:
anna@haivision.com
Agency
Contact:
Veronica
Esbona
InGear PR
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Kraken™ ISR Supports the Advanced Transcoding
Requirements of UAV-Derived Full-Motion Video for Real-Time Command and Control
of Unmanned Military Vehicles
MONTREAL and
CHICAGO — March 7, 2012 — Haivision Network Video, a leading
provider of the most advanced video networking, digital signage, and IP video
distribution solutions, today announced the Kraken™ ISR transcoder, designed
for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems that capture
full-motion video (FMV). Its ultra-low latency and real-time transcoding
capability make Kraken ISR ideal for demanding video-delivery applications
within the education, enterprise, and military markets, especially those that
enable control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Based on Haivision’s Kraken low-latency video encoder, the Kraken ISR easily processes Key-Length-Value (KLV) metadata bundled with H.264 and MPEG-2 FMV for downstream systems, resulting in extremely low latency and frame-accurate synchronization. A flexible pipeline design provides FMV with KLV metadata for viewing by real-time monitoring systems, with the added ability for additional systems to re-inject new metadata into the FMV stream. Military operations are one example of a situation where perfectly synced FMV and KLV metadata is a vitally important feature. Low-latency, data-synchronized, reliable equipment is crucial for the safety and success of ground troops during hostile situations.
“Haivision clients in the ISR space — especially those in the military — are implementing end-to-end HD H.264 video, which uses metadata-rich applications that require extreme-low-latency transcoding,” said Peter Maag, chief marketing officer at Haivision. “The Kraken ISR’s video stream is so accurate that military personnel can rely on it to control unmanned aerial vehicles in real time. The Kraken ISR is optimized specifically for the exact task of disseminating information with the lowest possible delay in a format that is required by downstream systems, networks, and viewers, while at the same time preserving any required metadata with frame-accurate synchronization.”
The Kraken ISR’s KLV metadata is MISB 0601.1- and 0604-compliant, accurately allowing critical KLV/CoT data that is essential when forwarding military mission information. The Kraken ISR enables users to monitor the fully uncompressed signal, stripping and injecting metadata as required by advanced ISR exploitation systems. It also boasts transport stream shaping capability, whereby an administrator can set a bandwidth ceiling for any transport stream that leaves the transcoder. A software-only option allows the technology to be deployed in ruggedized mission systems in anything from a ground vehicle to an airborne platform.
The Kraken ISR has been rigorously tested through trials with current Haivision clients.
Information about Haivision products and solutions is available at www.haivision.com.
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About
Haivision Network Video
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago with a global sales and support
organization distributing its products through value-added resellers, system
integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
For further information, please contact:
Haivision Network Video Contact:
Anna Kozel
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Website: www.haivision.com
Agency Contact
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
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Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
Haivision
Network Video
4445 Garand
Montréal, QC,
Canada H4R 2H9
Toll Free: +1 (877) 224-5445
Haivision Network Video Contact:
Anna Kozel
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Website: www.haivision.com
Agency Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
Tel: +1
(954) 392-6990
Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
Company Quote:
“Haivision
is focused on intelligent media systems
that incorporate video, graphics and metadata to help customers to build,
manage, and distribute their content to users throughout an enterprise or
across the Internet. At
NAB, we’ll show broadcasters in all market segments how Haivision can help
bridge the gap between the enterprise and the Internet. In particular, we’re
excited to demonstrate the incorporation of KulaByte Internet
encoding/transcoding within the Haivision stable of technology to extend our
performance solutions ‘over the top’ to users of all popular devices.” — Peter
Maag, Haivision’s chief marketing officer
NEW at the
2012 NAB Show!!
KulaByte™ Internet
Encoder — a Haivision Debut
At
the 2012 NAB Show, Haivision will debut the KulaByte™ Internet encoder. The
KulaByte encoder offers superior picture quality, uplink efficiency, and ROI
for streaming to Dynamic Flash® and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming
(HLS) networks. KulaByte combines the highest quality-per-bit (QPB) with tight
bandwidth control and Adaptive Bitrate Control™ to get the most out of Internet
uplinks. This allows broadcasters to have better quality contribution and
afford more sources from any venue. Being software-based, broadcasters can
achieve the highest ROI as they can scale and take advantage of future encoding
efficiencies without hardware dependencies.
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KulaByte™ Live Transcoder — Introducing 4.0 for Linux®
The
KulaByte™ live transcoder is now available for Linux® operating
environments. One of the first transcoders available to take advantage of cloud
computing efficiencies, the KulaByte transcoder now supports Linux, the
operating system of choice for reliable cloud deployment. The KulaByte transcoder
delivers multiple bitrate HLS and RTMP streams for adaptive/dynamic streaming.
Version 4.0 also introduces transport stream and MPEG-2 ingest support.
Viper™ KB Portable
Internet Encoder and Viper MAX Stand-Alone Recorder
At NAB,
Haivision is launching the Viper™ KB, a compact, portable appliance that
simplifies Internet streaming. With a very simple touch-screen interface, users
can quickly stream full HD at multiple bitrates for Dynamic Flash®
and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) networks. Haivision will also showcase
Viper MAX, a stand-alone, dual-channel performance-streaming, recording, VoD,
and publishing appliance for the conference room, classroom, and medical
procedure room.
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Furnace™ 6.3 IPTV/IP
Video System With Internet and Mobile Support
Bridging the enterprise and the Internet,
Haivision’s Furnace™
IP video distribution system, renowned for delivering real-time broadcast video
securely throughout facilities and across campuses now directly supports any
device, anywhere. InStream Mobile, to be initially available on iOS devices,
enables authenticated viewers to access live Furnace video channels.
Additionally, leveraging Haivision’s Internet Media (KulaByte) technology, VF
Mobile, part of the Furnace administrative suite, can associate any live
Furnace channel to Dynamic
Flash® and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) networks
and CDN targets.
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Caption: Furnace™ 6.3 IPTV/IP Video System
Makito™ Encoder With RTMP Internet Streaming
The
Makito™, Haivision’s most popular compact H.264 encoding appliance supporting
extreme low latency 1080p60, now supports direct live RTMP streaming to the
Internet and CDNs. The Makito, with HiLo-Streaming™, can encode multiple
bitrate streams that can be simultaneously directed to LAN targets leveraging
transport stream multicast and WAN infrastructures with RTMP.
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Kraken ISR™
Performance Transcoder
Designed
specifically for performance transcoding challenges within the military, the
Kraken ISR™ flawlessly transcodes full-motion video (FMV) for intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications. The Kraken ISR delivers
very low latency MPEG-2/H.264 to H.264 transcoding while accurately
re-associating KLV metadata with all streams.
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Torpedo™ DVB-to-IP Gateways With Encryption
Torpedo™ enables
enterprises to get digital broadcast transmissions onto their networks without
re-encoding the video. Supporting free to air satellite (DVB-S/S2) and terrestrial
(DVB-T/T2) signals, and those encrypted in accordance with the DVB-CI standard,
the Torpedo gateway delivers broadcasts over IP multicast networks. A single
Torpedo can support up to 15 content streams. Torpedo may be used stand-alone
or integrated with Haivision’s Furnace™ IP video system, supporting end-to-end video encryption and
allowing enterprises to adhere to content agreements.
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Company Overview:
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence centers in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany.
With a global sales and support organization, Haivision distributes its
products through value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and
OEMs worldwide. More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks and
registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective
owners.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
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CoolSign™ Digital Signage Solution Now Integrated with
Intel® Audience Impression Metrics Suite
Enabling Intelligent
Digital Signage Installations That Deliver Relevant, Fresh, and Highly Targeted
Messaging
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — Feb. 21, 2012 — Haivision Network Video today announced an integration of its CoolSign™ digital signage solution with the Intel® Audience Impression Metrics Suite (Intel® AIM Suite) to deliver a groundbreaking new audience detection solution. With the Intel AIM Suite integration, CoolSign now offers sensor technology for anonymous viewer analytics to enable intelligent digital signage installations that deliver highly relevant, real-time content to the right users at the right time.
“Digital signage has become one of the fastest growing advertising and marketing channels, but its effectiveness depends on fresh, relevant, and highly targeted messaging. Just as important are the measurable results that help ensure that the right message is delivered to the right audience,” said Peter Maag, Haivision’s chief marketing officer. “Haivision’s CoolSign and Intel AIM Suite are a powerful combination for today’s most advanced digital signage deployments, enabling any retail organization to engage customers intelligently, track results, and continuously improve its ability to attract attention, inform, and sell.”
Employing anonymous viewer analytics, the Haivision CoolSign system with the Intel AIM Suite can identify the gender and age bracket of a viewer and automatically play content targeted to that person. In this manner, sales and marketing organizations can develop precisely targeted content and schedule it to play to specific audiences when detected by sensor-equipped displays. By storing viewing data in its playlogs, CoolSign makes it easy for organizations to analyze viewing results correlated with content. Banks, for instance, can access campaign analytics that transfer ad display data from each branch and correlate it with viewership data — and they can compute ROI by relating ad viewership data to branch sales.
Launched in 1998, Haivision’s CoolSign has a long legacy of innovation, pioneering many aspects of digital signage technology including n-tier architecture, native multicasting support, real-time connectivity, full edge device monitoring and control, flexible media scheduling, closed data architecture, bandwidth usage controls, and many others.
CoolSign installations use Intel processors to produce valuable intelligence for centralized content development, distribution, and scheduling, which enables faster placement of messages and easier content management. Additionally, CoolSign’s management user interface (UI) is frequently cited as being one of the most powerful in the industry — providing rich functionality in a simple, elegant, easy-to-use manner. Secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient, CoolSign meets the demanding requirements of retail, government, financial services, corporate, and pure-play digital out-of-home advertising (DOOH) networks around the globe.
For more information about CoolSign and the Haivision product family, visit www.haivision.com.
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About Haivision Network Video
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence
centers in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global
sales and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through
value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
More information is available at www.haivision.com.
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
All trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
For further information, please contact:
Haivision Network
Video Contact:
Anna Kozel
Marketing and
Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Agency Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
Tel: +1
(954) 392-6990
Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
KulaByte
Encoder Converts Live HD Feed From Exploration Vessel Nautilus to Multiformat
Video Streams, Delivering Real-Time Educational Content to Broad Range of
Viewers
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — Feb. 14, 2012 — Haivision Network Video today announced that its KulaByte live Internet encoder powers multiscreen video delivery for Nautilus Live, a cutting-edge live ocean exploration program. A part of a complete media system provided by KIT digital, the KulaByte H.264 encoder receives the raw HD video signal from the Nautilus vessel and converts it into multiple H.264 IP streams in the formats required for delivery to the Nautilus Live Roku channel, website, iPhones®, iPads®, and other mobile devices.
“Reaching the target audience across a wide array of platforms was critical to the educational mission of Nautilus Live, and KulaByte was an essential component in that effort,” said Jesse Francis, solutions specialist, KIT digital, Inc. “This implementation was completed prior to the release of the KIT Video Platform, and so KIT digital worked with KulaByte to convert a single video stream to multiple high-quality formats with minimal latency. We were also impressed with its Internet streaming capabilities, which were able to detect outbound network congestion and automatically adjust the stream bit rates to deliver the best-quality output.”
Currently docked in Yalikavak, Turkey, the research vessel Nautilus just completed a four-month field expedition in the Black and Mediterranean Seas and the Atlantic Ocean. Nautilus Live is a project of Dr. Robert D. Ballard, the renowned oceanographer and explorer, and his international team of scientists and engineers, who conducted a range of activities such as mapping the sea floor, studying underwater volcanoes, and investigating aquatic life forms. Throughout the expedition, students, educators, researchers, and general audiences ashore were able to participate through the 24/7 live video feeds that were delivered from the ship via KulaByte and the KIT digital solution. The video feeds are an important component of The JASON Project, a partnership between National Geographic Society and Sea Research Foundation that delivered programs to classrooms and after-school settings such as Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
During the expedition, the Nautilus transmitted via satellite video feeds originating from the ship as well as its companion remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) that were exploring the seafloor. The feeds were received at the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island, where the KulaByte encoder converted them to the formats required for multiplatform delivery — including Dynamic Flash for the Nautilus Live website, and Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for mobile devices and tablet computers. In addition, KulaByte provided an HLS stream for Roku set-top streaming devices that were installed at Nautilus Live Exploration Command Centers (ECCs) at museums, aquariums, and schools around the country. The Nautilus Live Theater at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn., has hosted more than 30,000 visitors since its opening as a featured ECC venue in 2010. The KIT digital solution employed Akamai’s content delivery network to distribute the streams to all end-user devices.
“The Nautilus Live and JASON Project programs are truly groundbreaking in their efforts to give viewers the experience of being aboard the Nautilus ship, sharing discoveries in real time as they watched live ocean exploration and shipboard activities. And, thanks to KulaByte, they could participate using the platform or device of their choice,” said Peter Forman, vice president, Internet media division at Haivision Network Video. “Nautilus Live is precisely the type of use case for which KulaByte was designed: a far-reaching program that relied on live HD video streamed over the Internet to provide a valuable learning experience for many types of viewers.”
More information about Nautilus Live is available by visiting www.nautiluslive.org.
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About
Sea Research Foundation
Based
in Mystic, Conn., Sea Research Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization
that operates Mystic Aquarium, Institute for Exploration and, in partnership
with National Geographic Society, The JASON Project and its Immersion Learning
program. The mission of Sea Research is to inspire people to care for and
protect our ocean planet through education, research, and exploration. For more
information, visit searesearch.org.
About KIT digital, Inc.
KIT digital
(NASDAQ: KITD) is a premium provider of end-to-end video management software
and related services. The KIT Video Platform, the company's cloud-based video
asset management system, enables enterprise, media and entertainment and
network operator clients to produce, manage and deliver multiscreen socially enabled
video experiences to audiences wherever they are. KIT digital services nearly
2,500 clients in 50+ countries including some of the world's biggest brands,
such as Airbus, The Associated Press, AT&T, BBC, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
BSkyB, Disney-ABC, FedEx, Google, HP, Mediaset, MTV, News Corp, Telecom
Argentina, Telefonica O2, Universal Studios, Verizon, Vodafone and Volkswagen.
KIT digital maintains executive offices in New York and its operational
headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with offices in 21 countries around the
world. Visit the company at www.kitd.com or follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KITdigital.
About Haivision Network Video
Haivision
delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and
distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise,
education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a
private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence
centers in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global
sales and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through
value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
More information is available at www.haivision.com.
All trademarks and registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
For further information, please
contact:
Haivision Contact:
Anna
Kozel
Marketing and
Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
KIT digital
Contact:
Daniel
Goodfellow
SVP Corporate
Communications
Tel: +1 917
513-6081
Email: daniel@kitd.com
Agency Contact:
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
Tel: +1 (954)
392-6990
Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/haivision
Facebook: www.facebook.com/haivision
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haivision
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HaivisionVideos
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Haivision
Network Video
4445 Garand
Montréal, QC, Canada H4R 2H9
Toll-free: +1 (877) 224-5445
Haivision Network
Video Contact:
Anna Kozel
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel: +1 (514) 334-5445
Email: anna@haivision.com
Website: www.haivision.com
Agency Contact
Veronica Esbona
InGear PR
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(954) 392-6990
Email: veronica@ingearpr.com
Company Quote:
“Haivision is currently focused on end-to-end media solutions that ease the integration challenges of our partners. We have created hardware and software bundles that are easy to order, deploy quickly, and are completely supported by Haivision. Extending third-party strategic alliance to include Intel® AIM Suite integration, Haivision specifically addresses the signage needs of the banking sector. Haivision also brings the power of digital signage together with the low cost and ubiquity of IP video for campuswide and over-the-top (OTT) integrated media solutions.”
— Peter Maag, Haivision’s chief marketing officer
NEW at Digital Signage Expo 2012: Intelligent Digital Signage
CoolSign™ Integrates Intel® AIM Suite — Intelligence Transforms Next-Gen Digital Signage
At
DSE 2012, Haivision is announcing the integration of its CoolSign™ digital
signage solution with the Intel® Audience Impression Metrics Suite
(Intel AIM Suite) to deliver groundbreaking new audience-detection technology.
The CoolSign solution with Intel AIM Suite uses sensor technology for video
analytics to enable intelligent digital signs that deliver highly relevant
real-time content to the right users at the right time.
Haivision Products on Display at DSE 2012:
CoolSign™ — The Scalable Integrated Digital Signage Solution
Haivision’s CoolSign™ digital signage solution boasts all the features and functions required to meet any signage need, from smaller installations to sophisticated multiscreen landmark displays to large-scale global networks. CoolSign’s pioneering digital signage technology includes n-tier architecture, native multicasting support, real-time connectivity, full-edge device monitoring and control, flexible media scheduling, closed data architecture, and bandwidth usage controls. And now CoolSign offers unrestricted licensing to content creators and network managers everywhere, as well as preconfigured server and player systems to eliminate integration headaches. Secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient, CoolSign serves the demands of myriad retail, government, financial services, corporate, and pure-play digital out-of-home advertising (DOOH) networks around the globe.
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Image Caption: Haivision CoolSign™ Digital Signage Solution
Makito™ HD Encoder — Bringing HD Video Into Signage Systems
When integrated with CoolSign™ digital signage systems, Haivision’s Makito™ enables live HD video to be scheduled as content on any CoolSign display on the LAN. The Makito encoder is the first and only full-featured high-performance compact encoder to combine the efficiencies of H.264 video compression and full HD video quality in a very small form factor — all at a very competitive price point. The Makito supports digital and analog HD inputs, as well as digital or analog DVI.
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Link: www.ingearpr.com/Haivision/Makito_Makito-Air.zip
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Caption: Haivision Makito™ Encoder
KulaByte™ Internet Encoder — Making Signage Content Available to Anyone Over the Internet
Haivision
will display its KulaByte™ software encoder for the first time at DSE 2012.
KulaByte allows users to deliver live content over the Internet to any device. Completely
software-based, the KulaByte encoder provides the most efficient use of uplink
bandwidth due to extremely high quality-per-bit (QPB) performance and tight bit
rate control. For digital signage, KulaByte extends the powerful messaging
capabilities of CoolSign™ to any mobile device, tablet, or PC.
Photo Link: www.ingearpr.com/Haivision/KulaByte.zip
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Caption: Haivision KulaByte™
Furnace™ IP Video Distribution System — Low-Cost Set-Top Boxes and Free Soft Players
Haivision’s flagship product, the Furnace™, is an end-to-end IP video distribution system with secure transmission, control, recording, playback, and video-on-demand capabilities. For LAN deployments, organizations can leverage their video-over-IP infrastructure to support signage content distribution with low-cost, administratively controlled Haivision Stingray™ set-top boxes and InStream™ soft players. The combination of CoolSign and Furnace gives administrators a simple way to establish signage content to serve as default house channels or to be user-selectable within the channel guide.
Photo Link: www.ingearpr.com/Haivision/Furnace6.zipImage Caption: Haivision Furnace™
Haivision delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise, education, medical/health care, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a private company based in Montreal and Chicago, with technical excellence centers in Beaverton, Ore.; Austin, Texas; and Hamburg, Germany. With a global sales and support organization, Haivision distributes its products through value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide. More information is available at www.haivision.com.
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