Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) is launching Ericsson Virtualized Encoding, a unified software solution intended to remove the complexity of TV Everywhere video processing. The new solution is designed to allocate resources and simplify the process of selecting the right encoding method and platform based on the operator's priorities for deployment speed, video quality and output.

Ericsson Virtualized Encoding is part of the company's Video Processing range. It's designed to support all input types (compressed off-air or mezzanine and uncompressed), all output types (traditional linear broadcast on cable, IPTV, DTH satellite and DTT, multiscreen ABR delivery over IP) and all codecs (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC). It can be implemented on processing platforms containing a combination of dedicated programmable hardware, in customer premises and software or GPU-based servers on premise, or potentially deployed in the cloud.