Caucasus Online deploys Teracue ENC-200 H264 Encoders

Live Encoding and Real-Time TV Contribution for IPTV System in Georgia

Caucasus Online LLC - Georgia's largest internet service provider which controls almost 60% of the national internet communications market is now using Teracue ENC-200 H264 streaming IPTV encoders.

The video and audio encoders are being used within Caucasus Online's IPTV project in order to obtain SDI signals from local TV stations and to ingest and stream them live on the ISPs FTTB network. The H264 encoders are used for TV contribution, making the broadcast stations available on the IPTV system and to its viewers.

14 H264 encoders in single frame enclosures are installed within every single TV station which are distributed throughout the capital city of Tbilisi.

Initially it was planned to install all H264 encoders within the television tower. But as a measure of redundancy and safety - in order that not all of the units are within the same building and so not all units would be using the same IP outward connection - the units are now installed in a distributed fashion on the ISPs network.

The H264 encoders were chosen as the output streams were suitable for direct ingestion into the Motorola-based IPTV system without any further processing. Caucasus Online is implementing the Motorola-based nangu.tv(tm) middleware from the Czech company Alnair a.s.

The other reason for selecting the H264 encoder was the compact size and fanless form-factor. Another important point was the fact that the H264 encoder supports many different encoding inputs, as there are still some small TV stations that operate only with CVBS and SDI cannot be used. As the H264 encoder supports all these inputs by default, there was no need for converters or different encoder models. The complete installation could be handled with a single product model. An additional H264 encoder is available for backup and additional redundancy.

About Teracue AG
Teracue AG - Broadcast & IPTV Systems was established in 1991 and manufactures video processing solutions for IPTV, video-networking and streaming. Teracue provides encoder, decoder, stream-viewing/recording, as well as DVB-TV gateway and IPTV headend products: used mainly in broadcast and contribution networks, inside playout facilities, for healthcare and medical applications, for corporate and digital business TV, in universities and schools for education and training, inside fire/police centres, control rooms, aerospace companies, military and federal organisations for archiving, monitoring and debriefing. Teracue IPTV products enable professional system integrators to build robust, comprehensive end-to-end IP video systems. More information is available at www.teracue.com.

About Caucasus Online LLC
Caucasus Online - is the first and fastest growing Georgian Internet service provider, which leads the position on the ISP market due to affordable, high quality services. Effective management, cutting-edge technologies and innovation - these are the key ingredients the success. As for beginning of 2008, company staff reached 500 employees. Company’s goal is to provide end-users with high-quality service, further improvement of company's image on telecommunication market, faster development of Georgian web-content and easy means of its creation and management. Caucasus Online's products are constantly improved to meet consumer's ever growing demands. The Caucasus Online coverage area includes whole Tbilisi and all major towns of Georgia, based on the own fibre network, connected to fastest European backbones. www.co.ge

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