enCentro, a provider of IPTV solutions for the Telco, Corporate and Hospitality Markets, recently announced the launch of its centroCHANGE Transcoding Solution.

 

A carrier-grade appliance, centroCHANGE has been designed to meet the “rapidly evolving demands for delivering video streams for distribution over IP networks."

 

Officials said that the goal of the centroCHANGE solution is to provide “availability, manageability and scalability.”

 

The key features of this latest offering include high-quality video and audio transcoding; support for MPEG4 and H.264 video encoding as well as the ability to leverage existing MPEG-2 infrastructure; a complete set of management and administration tools; Web-based remote management, and more.

 

Officials said that centroCHANGE has the capability to perform conversions between a wide variety of video and audio formats such as emerging international compression standard - H.264, also known in the industry as Advanced Video Coding (AVC) or MPEG-4 part 10.

 

Moreover, the centroCHANGE transcoding solution is able to function on a stand-alone server capable of transcoding up to 8 streams, or as a comprehensive clustering solution offering a SSI transcoding environment.

 

enCentro believes that with the evolution of Communications and Network Technologies, and the convergence to full IP Networks, the delivery of video entertainment over IP infrastructure has become a “viable opportunity to gain a competitive edge and maximize revenue potential.”

 

“Thus the company has created the ideal solutions that cover most markets relevant to IPTV (News - Alert) implementations,” said officials.

 

enCentro IPTV products include centroFRONT - IPTV Middleware Server; centroMEDIA - VoD Servers; centroSTREAM - DVB-to-IP gateway Servers; centroMANAGER - Management, Monitoring and Configuration Server.