At HITEC Toronto, ATX is highlighting several product offerings including video gateways and headends, encoding and video insertion devices, and transcoding devices.
ATX's UCrypt video gateways and headends are designed to decrypt, encrypt and transition video between formats to facilitate the delivery of bulk video service to hospitality, MDU or commercial accounts. They're intended for the delivery of either small or large channel lineups. The UCrypt devices support encryption/decryption formats from Verimatrix, Pro:Idiom and AES128. A configurable EPG (electronic program guide) channel is included, while the devices are field upgradeable for channel capacity expansion. UCrypt devices are available in QAM-to-IP, IP-to-analog, IP-to-QAM, QAM-to-QAM, QAM-to-analog and IP-to-IP formats.
ATX's VersAtivePro license-free transcoding features a recent increase in processing capacity to enable a lower price per program.
In January, ATX acquired Pico Digital, a manufacturer of solutions for television and radio. ATX is displaying Pico's PD1600 mini headend, PD1000 encoder and the miniCMTS200a.
The PD1600 video headend is designed to interface with any type of operator or public network (DVB-C, DVB-S/S2, ATSC or DVB-T/T2) in order to ingest, decrypt, transcode (optional) and re-transmit video content via IP, QAM, DVB-T, ISDB-T, NTSC or MPEG-DASH/HLS.
The PD1000 encoder is designed to encode up to eight programs in 1RU in HD, SD, and HD-SDI into MPEG-2 and H.264 formats. The encoder supports Dolby Stereo and offers remote control and monitoring via a web interface. It is intended for commercial and residential properties, academic and medical facilities, CATV and broadcast LAN applications, and hospitality.
The miniCMTS200a device is designed to support up to 400 DOCSIS cable modems for private cable. It offers web-based configuration, management and debugging and is intended for smaller operators.
