At the NAB Show, Rohde & Schwarz introduced the R&S AVHE100 video encoding and multiplexing solution. It's designed to support HEVC in both HD and UltraHD as well as high dynamic range (HDR) video transmission.
The integrated HEVC encoder was developed and licensed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), which helped develop the HEVC standard. The R&S AVHE100 is intended for IPTV and cable networks as a large-scale headend system for transmission via satellite or terrestrial networks (DTT).
The software-based R&S AVHE100 is designed to encode multiple video streams in UltraHD format and combine them into a statistically multiplexed signal. It also features integrated orchestration of the core functionality in the headend management system and optional multi-year service level agreements (SLAs).