Resources – Vecima

Product Briefs

MediaScaleX

MediaScaleX // Cache™

MediaScaleX // Cache, a comprehensive multi-tiered caching solution, reduces latency and network utilization for video service providers to maximize the delivery of over-the-top and TV Everywhere video services to their customers.

MediaScaleX // Origin™

MediaScaleX // Origin offers video service providers the most comprehensive origin platform for ingesting, hosting, distributing, and distributing video content to any device, any time, over any network.

MediaScaleX // Storage™

MediaScaleX // Storage is a modern storage solution complete with a Ceph storage engine, robust and open management software, and options for software-only or pre-qualified commercial off-the-shelf appliance.

MediaScaleX // Transcode™

MediaScaleX // Transcode provides unsurpassed video quality through shared computing resources for processing of audio and video content.

Entra

Entra Access Node EN8100

The Entra Distributed Access Platform is Vecima’s realization of next generation Hybrid Fiber Coax. The Entra Ethernet-based Access Node supports multiple access architectures: Remote PHY, Remote MACPHY, Ethernet Switching, and PON.

Entra R-PHY Monitor

The Entra Access Nodes are further empowered when paired with Entra Remote PHY Monitor: an intelligent monitoring and configuration platform.

Entra Legacy QAM Adapter

The Legacy QAM Adapter (LQA) allows operators to leverage their existing installed Edge QAM infrastructure for new R-PHY and R-MACPHY deployments with minimal new headend equipment, low interoperability risk, and support for mixed deployments of centralized and distributed access.

Terrace

Terrace QAM

The Terrace QAM Hospitality Gateway is a multi-channel QAM to QAM transcryptor. The Terrace QAM can decrypt 24-60 programs and provide up to 64 output QAM channels to allow a full line-up of customized programming. Local content can be added to enhance value-added advertising within the hospitality CATV network and further personalize Free-to-Guest offerings.

Terrace TC600E

The Terrace TC600E is a flexible, compact and cost effective way to bring a digital line-up back into the analog realm for a commercial or MDU bulk account.

Terrace DVB

The Terrace DVB Commercial Video Gateway is a multi-channel DVB-C (QAM) to DVB-T (COFDM) or DVB-C (QAM) decrypting transmodulator used for business to business commercial video applications, serving video solutions to hospitality, healthcare, MDU and university locations.

Terrace Concierge

Concierge is a flexible solution allowing cable and satellite operators to offer digital video services to their commercial customers. Easily integrate Concierge into the headend to extend digital network infrastructure or use as a cost effective gateway solution for delivery of Free-to-Guest digital video entertainment to MDUs and hospitality accounts.

Terrace View

Terrace View provides a proactive global monitoring and automated reporting system for MSOs with an installed base of Terrace commercial video products. Monitor alarms, CableCARD information, channel lineups and device information.

Solution Briefs

MediaScaleX

Hybrid CDN

OTT solutions that are delivering content “at scale” can benefit from the combination of a Private CDN and Public CDN – a Hybrid CDN. Control video latency, avoid CDN congestion, change the traditional CDN cost model and prepare for the exponential growth of video over CDN.

Single Platform Storage

Media operations typically operate with multiple storage systems for different purposes, creating operational complexity and higher costs than the modern alternative – a scale-out, object storage-based platform that supports file, object and block protocols and uses multi-performance COTS hardware.

MAM Storage & Transcode

MAM workloads have grown exponentially with file-based VOD and OTT workloads, with transcoding at the heart of the processes. Vecima can transform workflow efficiency by combining transcode and storage functions in a hyper-converged platform.

Media Archive Storage

The TCO of tape is higher than you might realize, plus tape limits content monetization. Vecima can simplify your archive with a multi-workload storage solution that supports your content archive needs today and in the future.

Media Operations Storage

Highly scalable, software-defined storage leveraging object storage scale and COTS hardware efficiency allows for consolidation of storage silos, shared capacity for your entire workflow, and simplified storage administration.

Multi-Cloud Transcode

Media businesses produce many VOD and OTT assets, with highly variable workloads and deadlines. Achieve ultimate technical, operational and commercial flexibility with software-defined transcoding.

Security, Orchestration & File Transfer Acceleration with Scalable, Open Object Storage

MediaScaleX//Storage, Enterprise File Fabric & M-Stream combine to deliver a modern solution for hybrid cloud storage platforms. The solution enables media businesses to improve flexibility, scalability and efficiency.

White Papers

Advantages of a Multi-Vendor Next Generation Access Ecosystem

CableLabs’ Remote PHY specifications allow technology companies to develop next generation access equipment that can interoperate, giving service providers the ability to expand capacity, flexibly. Evolution to a Distributed Access Architecture is here. Learn how interoperability ensures operators are prepared for an evolving network.

DAA: Deciding Between Remote PHY and Remote MACPHY

After decades building traditional HFC networks, operators are moving to a Distributed Access Architecture (DAA), pushing headend and hub functions to the node. Learn about the two primary DAA approaches – Remote PHY and Remote MACPHY – and how to decide which approach is best for your network.

Essential Guide: Hybrid CDN

The Media industry is moving into a space it has never been before – OTT at scale. Against this backdrop, this new CDN Essential Guide from The Broadcast Bridge and Vecima takes a fresh look at the future of OTT delivery. Tony Orme from The Broadcast Bridge starts with a deeper look into how CDNs work, considering the seismic shift of Broadcasters towards Direct to Consumer streaming. Vecima then applies over 2 decades of streaming video experience through its new “OTT Scale-Maturity Quadrant” that guides the reader through the key opportunities and pitfalls that OTT Operators face as they move to At-Scale OTT operations. This is an essential guide for any media business looking to reach true scale in OTT.

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Making Sense of Node Segmentation

Cable access subscribers are consuming more and more video content over their broadband connections, and driving unprecedented network contention. Next generation cable access architectures can help. Learn how to evolve your network, and make the right choices for tomorrow, today.

OTT AT SCALE: Why Large OTT Operators Need Private CDNs

The world’s biggest OTT Operators chose Private CDNs to deliver economies of scale and service excellence. As OTT consumption grows exponentially, the next wave of OTT Operators led by national broadcasters and large Sports-streaming operators will benefit from the same approach. Find out why in this e-book from Vecima

Hybrid CDN

We are in the early phases of the OTT revolution. The economics of the industry are moving faster than predicted, and the time for broadcasters to take greater control of their economic destiny has arrived. It’s time to consider a Hybrid CDN approach.

Cloud-Extensible Transcoding

Most media businesses creating VOD assets deal with peaks and troughs of transcoding workloads. Cloud-based transcoding services have become popular to expand capacity quickly, with low set-up costs, and no long-term commitments. But early adopters of cloud services have learned the pitfalls of over-dependency on a single cloud service provider and are still looking for the optimal solution.

The Business Benefits of Object Storage

As content production increases and video resolution improves, media libraries are growing quickly, stretching storage platforms to their limits. Media businesses should consider how to ensure their storage doesn’t slow them down. Object storage is the modern platform, ideally suited for video.

How Archive Storage Affects Operational Efficiency

Media storage is a constantly moving target that will continue to change and evolve to meet the needs of viewers. Files are getting larger. Content libraries are getting bigger. You need a storage and delivery system that won’t buckle under the pressure. Will your storage systems help you succeed?

Innovations in Software Defined Storage for Cloud DVR and IP-Linear Digital Video

Published by SCTE-ISBE, October 2019. The emergence of object storage as a mechanism to store digital video has modernized the way video content is stored and distributed. Whereas legacy systems that utilize a traditional POSIX file system architecture store video assets as files within a directory tree, object storage allows for an asset to be stored as a “data blob” in a potentially large namespace. This method of storing data introduces a number of advantages for digital content storage and distribution.

Delivering QAM Video in Distributed Access Architectures

Published by ISBE-SCTE, October 2019. The shift from centralized access to distributed access architectures (DAA) represents a fundamental change in the operation of hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks. Operators are moving to DAA for a plethora of reasons.

Videos

2020 SCTE Expo – Building and Deploying A Next Generation IPTV Platform

Modern IPTV architectures are cost effective, and evidence shows that the right blend of services will also lead to more bandwidth utilization, giving IPTV streaming options a distinct advantage over legacy Pay TV deployment models. In this talk, we'll discuss:

- Statistics for the current state of streaming
- How providers are making the transition from video delivered over legacy access networks
- Managing infrastructure costs

2020 SCTE Expo- Top 10 Most Asked Questions About Next-Generation Cable Access: R-PHY, R-MACPHY, and FTTH

In this presentation, we walk through the top 10 questions that MSOs ask us, and discuss the technical and market aspects of each question based on direct experience deploying DAA solutions. Topics discussed include:
- The status of DAA deployments globally by Operator
- Decision criteria for choosing the right next-generation architecture
- Key factors driving most DAA deployments

cDVR

Never compromise on throughput and flexibility with Vecima cDVR

TruLive

Industry leading scale and sub 2s latency with TruLive.

IP Video delivery take control of your CDN

Listen in as Paul Martin, Vecima VP Broadcaster Business Development and Kyle Goodwin, Vecima VP of Product And Innovation, discuss the transition to IP video from CDN Solutions for cable and telco service providers as well as OTT operators. They took a detailed look at the transition and specifically what is driving this transition from both a commercial and technology standpoint.Topics discussed include:

- Drivers of this transition
- What makes for a seamless transition?
- Importance of dual function components Vecima provides
- How to approach scalability challenges?
- What role Cache efficiency ratio plays?
- How does it affect OTT performance?

NAB 2019 interview with Vecima CRO Clay McCreery

Clay McCreery, COO, talks about Vecima's increased market share within the Broadcaster industry and how the company's Content Delivery and Storage division is tackling latency issues.

Storage Breakthroughs for Media Applications

Storage is the foundation of media workflows. It’s under pressure to store more content, at higher resolutions, with more demands on accessing it, and the never-ending need to keep it safe. What can do that? Unified Hybrid Object Storage.

Game Changing IP Video: Affordable Cloud DVR and Ultra Low Latency

Although live viewing has decreased markedly, it is still extremely important for live sports content. The most critical quality factor for live content is low latency. Vecima is utilising unique, market-leading technology, known as TruLive, to enable maximum quality delivery of the next generation of live streaming services with a latency below two seconds, encoder-to-screen.

Blogs

March 16, 2021

Vecima Fills the Cable Access GAP

Published by Jeff White, Senior Vice President Of Cable Strategy at Vecima Networks, March 16th, 2021 Recently, I wrote a…

December 14, 2020

DAA: It’s My Way or the PHY Way!

December 14, 2020 Introducing a new Vecima Whitepaper, “DAA: Deciding between Remote PHY and Remote MACPHY.” As broadband demands on…

October 19, 2020

Beginning of a New Era in Distributed Access – Flexible Mac Architecture (FMA)

October 19, 2020 Flexible MAC Architecture (FMA) Phase 1, the R-MACPHY portion, was issued in September of 2020. This means…

October 7, 2020

What I’ve learned in my first 30 days at Vecima Networks

October 7, 2020 Over the summer, Vecima Networks acquired Nokia’s Cable Business Unit including its Unified Cable Access Solution (UCAS). UCAS…

June 12, 2020

OTT at Scale: Accelerating the Growth

June 12, 2020 OTT video has exploded. We have had a glimpse of the future when OTT will be THE…

April 21, 2020

Responding to Dramatically Increased Demand on DOCSIS Networks

April 21, 2020 Network operators who have deployed DAA (Distributed Access Architecture) are finding themselves well prepared for the dramatic…

March 20, 2020

A Message from Vecima’s CEO on COVID-19

March 20, 2020 Vecima Customers, Partners, Friends: Much like many of you, the leadership team and I have been…

February 7, 2020

Conviva reports global streaming up 58% YoY in 2019

Conviva has reported (Advanced Television) that global streaming viewing is up 58% from 2018 to 2019

December 31, 2019

Emerging Trends in OTT (published by TVB Europe)

Ryan Nicometo, SVP at Vecima Networks, explains how Hybrid CDN and Object Storage solutions change the game for high performance at-scale OTT delivery

December 11, 2019

How Hybrid CDN optimizes OTT Services (published in TM Broadcast)

Profitably scaling video and data services requires a highly optimized approach. Ryan Nicometo, SVP of Product & Marketing at Vecima…

December 5, 2019

Private Content Delivery Networks Are The Future (published in The Times)

The ongoing growth of video consumed over the top (OTT) is straining existing CDN models, creating performance and profitability problems for the largest OTT operators. Private CDNs provide the solution.

November 22, 2019

Vecima’s straightforward guide to low-latency streaming (published by Broadcast Sport)

Kyle Goodwin, VP Product & Innovation, explores, in layman’s terms, how the industry is preparing to tackle low-latency streaming, and…

November 8, 2019

LightReading talks with Vecima about DAA and Virtualization

Colin Howlett, VP of Architecture at Vecima Networks, discusses what should and shouldn’t be virtualized in the network, and identifies functionalities that will lead the charge. Also discussed are consolidating hubs and the importance of edge computing in the cable industry, specifically when reducing latency for IP video.

November 6, 2019

DOCSIS evolution and the bridge to 10G (published in Broadband Technology Report)

Cable operators must consider how to migrate from the hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) and DOCSIS networks of today to the 10G…

October 30, 2019

CDN’s and the Quest to Conquer Streaming’s Challenges

Broadcasting’s history has long been dominated by technological advances. Though perhaps no time has been as disruptive as the present,…

October 8, 2019

BTR highlights Vecima’s latest DAA innovations

Broadband Technology Report highlights Vecima’s Entra DAA portfolio expansion with support for two Remote PHY Devices (RPDs) in a single node, designed to support operators to reach 10G. The report includes Vecima’s MediaScaleX win at Conway, a North American cable operator, for its new IPTV multiscreen service.

October 7, 2019

MediaScaleX // Storage: built for the future of video

MediaScaleX // Storage is designed from the ground up to enable media organizations to consolidate object & file storage silos…

January 29, 2018

MediaScaleX // Storage – The Media industry’s mass migration – a natural phenomenon or nearing extinction?

A mass migration is normally a natural phenomenon witnessed as herds of caribou, say, or flocks of geese move to…

May 15, 2017

MediaScaleX // Storage – The ‘Client-Cluster’ Model: An Untapped Benefit of Software Defined Storage

Storage analysts forecast the global software defined storage (SDS) market to grow at a CAGR of 31.6% during the period…

December 20, 2016

MediaScaleX // Storage – Top Five Storage Infrastructure Trends for 2017

1. Modern Will Be the New Software-Defined Isn’t everyone tired of hearing software-defined at the front of every new product…