TUŠ TELEKOM selects Envivio Convergence encoding solution to deliver IPTV services

December 18, 2007 – Envivio has announced that Slovenian telco TUŠ TELECOM has selected its Convergence Generation video headend for the telco’s standard-definition and high-definition IPTV services in Slovenia.

The new headend will enable TUŠ TELECOM to expand its existing standard-definition IPTV service to 108 channels and add six high-definition channels, as well as migrate from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoding.  The Convergence Generation solution features the 4Caster C4 multichannel video compression system and the 4Stream satellite TV to IP gateway.  4Stream is an IP-based service gateway that allows MPEG-2 content downlinked from satellite to be delivered to the C4 compression system over a local IP network.

“While Envivio was one of several vendors that showed us high quality video encoding products, the software based compression architecture of their C4 offered a unique level of flexibility,” said Andras Pali, CTO of TUŠ TELECOM.  “It was the only encoder we saw that included significant video compression enhancements on the product development roadmap, enhancements that would allow us to improve the encoding performance in the future without requiring expensive and disruptive hardware changes.  The all-IP architecture of the headend is also very appealing.  Routing and switching the video signals in IP is very efficient, cost effective and fits perfectly in to our operational environment.”