Mexico. Mexican Pay-TV operator Ultravisión selected Broadpeak's solutions to power its new IPTV multi-screen service, which will be based on Broadpeak's BkM100 video delivery manager, BkS400 HTTP video cache servers and BkS350 source packager.
By monitoring live and on-demand content, and then caching popular content based on usage patterns, Broadpeak solutions will reduce Ultravision content delivery costs while delivering high quality of experience (QoE) to subscribers on every screen.
"We chose Broadpeak to be our technology provider because their solutions are pre-integrated with a wide range of ecosystems, meeting our scalability requirements and successfully passing our rigorous proof of concept. Our initial plan is to launch 50 live IPTV multi-screen channels by the end of this year," said Patricio Zorrilla, Vice President of Ultra telecom at Ultravision.
Broadpeak's BkS350 Packaging and Source Server includes on-the-fly packaging capabilities that will reduce Ultravision's processing and storage costs. With the BkS350, live content will only be recorded once and sent to a wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes and game consoles, in the requested ABR format.
Using Broadpeak's BkS400 HTTP video cache servers and BkM100 video delivery manager, Ultravision can cache content at the header level and reduce the load on the source server.
"IPTV multi-screen video consumption is growing in Mexico and the launch of this new service will put Ultravision at a distinctive competitive advantage, making them the first Mexican operator with a pure IPTV multi-screen service," said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO of Broadpeak.
