At the NAB Show, Edgeware plans to launch an upgrade to its TV CDN architecture, allowing its customers to repackage and re-encrypt TV content at the edge of their CDN.
Edgeware's Edge TV Repackager product is designed to enable distribution and caching of streaming video content in a single common file format, then repackage it on the fly into DASH, HLS or MSS formats, for example, as required by the client device. The system is intended to reduce the backhaul bandwidth and the amount of NAS and cache storage required for most VOD services by a factor of two to three. Edge TV Repackager builds on Edgeware's existing capabilities, which are designed to perform on-the-fly repackaging at the origin location of a TV delivery system.
"Reducing the strain on network and storage is especially important as viewers begin to adopt 4K TV," said Edgeware CTO Goran Appelquist. "Edge repackaging will offset the higher requirements for network and storage capacity required by UHD services. It's another benefit of building your own TV CDN, rather than buying a standard third-party CDN service. With a CDN optimized for TV, operators and content owners can retain the savings in delivery bandwidth and storage, rather than simply paying for more and more bytes to be delivered every month."
Edgeware's repackaging product is designed to support HLS, MPEG-DASH, MSS, MP2, MP4, HEVC and progressive download formats in SD, HD and 4K. DRM support includes Verimatrix, PlayReady and Widevine, as well as other DRM providers.