At SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, Elemental Technologies is showcasing Elemental Delta, a multiscreen IP video delivery platform intended to help content owners and distributors add time-shifted services, reduce distribution costs and manage content. It was introduced at IBC in Amsterdam earlier this month.
Delta is designed to support multiscreen delivery of live-to-VOD services such as catchup TV, start-over TV and nPVR. It combines just-in-time (JIT) packaging, origin services, caching, dynamic ad insertion and replacement, and encryption in a single platform. The IP video delivery solution is designed to support HDS, HLS, Smooth Streaming and MPEG-DASH, as well as H.264 and HEVC/H.265.
In other Elemental news, thePlatform has upgraded its mpx Accelerate service with video processing from Elemental. thePlatform has architected a workflow with Elemental systems to optimize encoding resources and manage fluctuations in processing demand, by coupling dedicated appliances in its data centers with cloud-based resources around the world.