Vubiquity has signed a deal to provide National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) members with its integrated MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 linear platform, which is called “LiveVU.”
Vubiquity’s LiveVU hosted MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 service enables NCTC members to retire aging MPEG-2 transcoding systems while moving from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for improved bandwidth.
LiveVU provides a means for cable operators who are now delivering video in MPEG-2 to migrate gradually to MPEG-4 delivery by enabling them to deliver channels in both formats. LiveVU includes access to more than 720 SD and HD channels.
“NCTC’s partnership with Vubiquity offers access to technology and content packages that help drive down the costs associated when providing cable TV,” said Corey McCarthy, CFO and senior vice president of business development, NCTC. “Vubiquity’s LiveVU service offers our members flexibility and choice by offering both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 linear feeds, providing bandwidth, compression and network capacity advantages our members can take advantage of.”
Vubiquity said LiveVU worked with legacy MPEG-2 set-top boxes, MPEG-4 set-top boxes, DAC/NAS/NASRAC, Arris, Verimatrix, Mediaroom, Minerva and “every major vendor in the CATV space.”
NCTC members will have access to preferred pricing from Vubiquity, and in most cases will be able to migrate or commercially deploy with LiveVU within weeks.
Last year Americable became the first customer to roll out LiveVU.
