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Kraken Video Processing Platform

Optimize real-time video and metadata across any network. Kraken ensures high video quality, low latency, and interoperability for defense and ISR applications.

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ISR Video Processing for Mission-Critical Applications

Kraken is a comprehensive video processing platform that combines software flexibility and hardware acceleration to encode, transcode, and transport high quality video and metadata in real-time. Ideal for defense and ISR, Kraken excels in limited bandwidth environments, supporting diverse protocols and codecs. Kraken provides flexible deployment options, making it the ideal solution for all full-motion video processing challenges.

Real-Time Video for ISR

Network Agnostic

Over Any Network

Wide Format, Codec, and Protocol Support

Wide Format, Codec, and Protocol Support

KLV Metadata

KLV Metadata Processing and Filtering

Transcoding Protocols

Protocol Conversion and Transcoding

Processing Power

High-Density Processing Power

Flexible Deployment

Flexible Deployment Options

Compliant

Standards-Compliant and Interoperable

Real-Time Actionable Intelligence

Real-Time Actionable Intelligence with the Best Video Quality Possible

Kraken optimizes real-time video and metadata transport to support rapid decision-making with mission-critical information. Its low latency and robust processing capabilities help ensure secure and efficient transmission of vital video content, enhancing situational awareness in defense and ISR operations, even in constrained or unpredictable network environments.
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Reliable Performance Over Any Network

Kraken optimizes video and metadata for transport over constrained networks. It can encode, transcode, or convert protocols, providing the optimal stream for any ISR situation. Kraken overcomes packet loss and jitter using the SRT protocol, ensuring reliable, high-quality video transmission over satellite and beyond-line-of-sight networks.
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Preserve, Optimize, and Manage Embedded Metadata

MISB standards compliant, Kraken supports KLV metadata to preserve geospatial information along with video. When communicating over low bitrate links, Kraken can apply metadata filtering to optimize bandwidth consumption. Additional metadata including security and classification markings can also be included in compliance with cross domain solutions and policy requirements.
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Seamless Interoperability Between Devices

Kraken supports a wide range of video protocols and codecs, ensuring compatibility with modern and legacy ISR communication devices through transcoding to known formats and protocols. By adhering to established standards such as MISB and STANAG, it enables smooth integration across complex defense workflows, ensuring consistent video delivery and enhancing compatibility with downstream systems, including cross-domain systems and applications.
Increased Situational Awareness

Enhance Situational Awareness with AI

Kraken delivers real-time AI processing to enhance mission-critical video. With processor modules integrated with partner algorithms, users can apply object detection, classification, and tracking to enrich streams with metadata and visual cues. These insights help teams quickly identify key activity and make informed decisions whether Kraken is deployed at the tactical edge, in command centers, or in cloud environments.
Kraken and AWS

Deploy Anywhere

Maximize flexibility with Kraken’s versatile deployment options. Available as a ruggedized appliance, portable edge appliance, rack-mountable server, virtual machine, or cloud-based solution, Kraken can be deployed in the form best suited for the operational environment, supporting a wide range of mission needs and platform requirements.
MISB

Standards Compliant

Kraken adheres to MISB and STANAG standards, ensuring compliance and interoperability with defense systems. It supports a range of applications, from ISR backhaul and tactical network distribution to command center operations and critical infrastructure monitoring.

Kraken Certified Partners

Kraken Virtual Machine (VM) and its powerful low-latency video encoding, transcoding, and routing technology can be integrated into ISR systems, such as tactical communication kits and centralized data centers, all without the need for additional physical hardware.

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