Comprehensive IP Video Solutions and Services

Optimize and modernize your network for IP video delivery

Aurora Networks' IP Video Solution is an ideal choice for service providers seeking to optimize their networks for next-generation technologies and improve the subscriber experience. Aurora Networks can help optimize and sustain existing video systems while, in parallel, managing the deployment of new IP video systems. A full, end-to-end solution, Aurora Networks' IP Video Solution is a single source for all the components of an IP video delivery system, from the back office to the edge of the network.

Aurora Networks' IP Video Solution can provide an efficient way for service providers to streamline operations and lower Total Cost of Ownership, while also paving the way for optimized network operation. As part of a wider strategy of bandwidth optimization, migration to IP video can help reclaim portions of the RF spectrum to increase network capacities and speeds. Therefore, by adding more high-speed data capabilities to the plant, service providers can potentially reduce subscriber churn and recapture cord-cutting subscribers who want to stream content.

A flexible solution, Aurora Networks' IP Video Solution supports on-premise, cloud-based, and hybrid IP video architectures. It also supports multiple types of IP video services, including:

Live/Linear Broadcast
Video on Demand (VOD)
Network DVR, Start Over TV, Catch-up TV, and Rewind TV
A variety of Ad Insertion options, including schedule-based, programmed, open-bid, and full Manifest Manipulation
Multi-screen clients and apps
Personalized and regionalized channels and services

IP Video Solution Architecture

The IP Video Solution Architecture comprises back office, video packaging, and data plane functions. It’s an end-to-end solution using modular building blocks that supports all your IP video delivery and management requirements, as shown in the diagram below.

IP Video Solution can help modernize networks currently operating with aging and/or End-of-Life video infrastructures. Service Providers can deploy IP Video Solution in the cloud, on premises, or in a hybrid architecture and streamline headend and hub sites by eliminating equipment to reclaim rack space and save power. In fact, IP Video Solution can help streamline operations across the board by leveraging industry-standard encoding, packaging, and distribution protocols for content, as well as leveraging subscribers’ IP clients and IP set-top boxes.

IP Video Solutions Architecture

Video Media Path Functions ...

Video Media Path Functions and Options

CommScope’s IP Video Solution offers a variety of video processing options to support whatever IP service or services a service provider chooses to roll out. The solution supports on-premise, appliance, and software-based deployments, as well as cloud-based implementations.

For service providers that require on-premise, appliance-based video packaging solutions—which offer longer life spans, higher density, and improved Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)—CommScope’s IP Video Solution features the CommScope® ME7000 for encoding and partner products for packaging. CommScope can also provide software-based encoding and packaging that can operate on off-the-shelf servers, private clouds, and public clouds.

ME-7000

CommScope’s IP Video Solution Content Delivery Network (CDN) packaging and encoding options and features include:

Just-In-Time Packaging (JIT-P) for Linear Video Services with rolling buffer
IP-based HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH).
Kubernetes-based, virtualized video packaging option to support real-time video and transcoder packaging for multi-screen delivery of live content in a variety of encode formats and resolutions, including both standard and high definition

CommScope’s IP Video Solution CDN management function—a crucial component of delivering IP video packages optimally and efficiently—supports origin caching, the process by which an edge server receives content from an origin server. The CDN facilitates this process by caching content close to the edge of the network.

CommScope’s IP Video Solution can also include Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Multicast Adaptive Bit Rate (MABR) systems for efficient IP Video delivery. Together with CDN, they support origin shield caches, content caching closer to the edge of the networks

IP Media / Content Delivery Network (CDN) Architecture

Back Office Functionality

CommScope can implement a proven, feature-rich back office system and functions, from subscriber management to business metrics, or service providers can use their existing systems. Currently deployed by over 100 service providers and media companies, CommScope’s IP Video Solution’s back office plane can integrate seamlessly with existing service provider systems and third-party vendors, simplifying the management of new IP video deployments and improving the time to go live.

Deployed in the cloud across multiple availability zones, the system enables service providers to deploy IP video by managing:

• Self-signup of households/subscribers
• Billing integration for credit card and post-pay options
• Live and linear packages
• Subscription, Transactional, Ad sponsored, and free VOD
• Time-shifted viewing: catch-up, restart, pause, rewind, network PVR
• Search and recommendations
• Efficient operational control and monitoring

The system also supports a variety of metrics, including reporting and business intelligence, to provide valuable insights into the viewing habits and trends of subscribers, network performance, Quality of Experience (QoE), and other key business information.

Service providers can use also CommScope’s IP Video Solution to manage and deploy a variety of apps for subscribers, including brandable apps and White Label apps for iOS, Android, Android set-top boxes, and Smart TVs.

IP Video Back Office Architecture

Systems Integration

While implementing and deploying a new IP Video delivery system may seem daunting, CommScope is here to help. With years of video expertise and experience in successfully integrating a wide variety of video delivery architectures, including those that leverage cutting-edge AI technology, CommScope’s Systems Integration team can provide Service Providers with end-to-end services to help them migrate to our IP Video Solution seamlessly, efficiently, and economically. As CommScope’s multitude of proven partnerships throughout the industry show, our Systems Integration Team is powerful resource for any service provider interested in making the switch to IP Video.

CommScope’s System Integration team can manage every facet of an IP Video Solutions deployment, from system design to after-sale services such as product training and operational support. Our team can help Service Providers mitigate risks during the deployment of the IP Video Solution to avoid service outages and disruptions in the network, while also helping to leverage key components of a Service Provider’s existing video architecture to maximize ROI and monetize existing assets. Our Systems Integration team can also provide full project management services to help ensure the IP Video Solution deployment is on time and on budget.

Typical Project Approach

Why Aurora Networks?

Revolutionary Network Solutions

A Long History of Video Innovation

Aurora Networks has pioneered a multitude of award-winning industry breakthroughs. From the first operational all-digital HDTV system to pioneering Content Security and DRM solutions, Aurora Networks thirty years of excellence in designing video delivery solutions speaks for itself.

Other key innovations include:
• First MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 digital ad insertion
• First to demonstrate HEVC compression system
• First wireless broadband gateway

Vision to performance

Cutting Edge Solutions for Today's IP Video Deployments

Aurora Networks history of innovation continues with our comprehensive portfolio of IP Video services.

We support all types of IP Video Services:
• Live/Linear broadcast and Video On Demand (VOD)
• Network DVR, Start Over TV, Catch-Up TV
• Ad Insertion, Manifest Manipulation
• Multi-Screen Clients/Apps (set-top boxes and IP clients)
• Personalized/Regionalized Channels
• Bookmarks, Favorites, Search and Recommendations

End-to-end solutions

A Managed Transition to IP Video

Aurora Networks' team of IP video experts can help service providers make the transition to IP Video quickly and economically. Our IP video experts work closely with service providers to guide them through a wide range of IP Video deployments and systems integration strategies, providing customers with a customized IP Video system that uses the best Aurora Networks and/or third-party products to fit their business goals and match their system design needs today, while also laying the groundwork for seamless upgrade and system expansion in the future.