12
NEWS & VIEWS
September 2018
Interra Systems tapping into AI and ML
At this year’s show, Interra Systems
is planning to play a larger role in
the digital media solutions space
with the introduction of Winnow,
an enhancement that encompasses
the company’s innovations in artifi-
cial intelligence (AI) and machine-
learning (ML) techniques.
Designed as an ML-driven en-
hancement, Winnow can be inte-
grated with Interra Systems’ Baton
QC solution for users to deploy in
both cloud and on-premises envi-
ronments. Enabled by AI, Winnow
provides media companies with a
compliance and identification solu-
xG Scorecard is a multi-platform media analysis and business intelligence
solution from Imagine Communications that is designed to allow media
companies to discover trends and spot correlations in managing ad sales.
tion powered by ML and computer
vision technologies. Furthermore,
the enhancement is able to auto-
matically check for compliance and
identification of content against
regulations in different countries,
regions and organisations.
Interra Systems is also exhibit-
ing its Baton ABR and Orion-OTT
solutions for over-the-top (OTT)
file-based delivery. Both solutions
are able to perform QC and moni-
toring for video-on-demand (VoD)
content from ingest to network
operations centres and other distri-
bution points. Through the demon-
stration of these solutions, visitors
are able to see Baton ABR’s checks
at the pre- and post-transcode
stages, as well as how Orion-OTT’s
checks and features support QoE
for every stream on every device.
Particularly for Orion-OTT, the
solution can be deployed for live-
event streaming for monitoring of
large number of streams for adap-
tive bitrate (ABR) compliance along
with audio-video quality checks.
The solution suite also supports
closed captions, ad verification and
digital rights management.
To find out more, visit Interra
Systems at booth 7.C09.
Imagine Communications
leads broadcasters’
technology transition
Imagine Communications is
demon strating xG Scorecard, a
business intelligence solution that
provides insights and “precise
knowledge” of how spots drive
sales for advertisers.
The multi-platform media
analysis and business intelligence
system brings together data from
traditional sales and traffic systems,
operational databases, ratings,
clickstream and even social net-
works into a single view that can
be customised to meet the needs
of specific users. With xG Score-
card, users are able to simplify the
process of discovering trends and
spotting correlations, thus allow-
ing media companies to increase
revenue and decrease costs across
multi-channel, multi-platform,
and multi-market operations, says
Imagine Communications.
Alongside xG Scorecard, Im-
agine Communications is also
highlighting its expertise in live
production with the showcase of
the Selenio Network Processor
(SNP) and the 4K/Ultra HD (UHD)-
ready Epic MV multiviewer. When
paired together, both the solutions
are able to monitor the signals of
multiple dedicated screens, with
inputs and monitor outputs all in IP.
To address the bandwidth chal-
lenge associated with monitoring
uncompressed 4K/UHD signals,
SNP is equipped with the ability to
make a “proxy signal” from every
4K/UHD signal that it transmits in
both directions. Epic MV will then
use these signals — which are in
HD resolution — instead of the 4K/
UHD original, resulting in a reduc-
tion in overall system cost.
As for playout, Imagine Com-
munications has developed Versio
Platform, a cloud-native, micro
services-based playout ecosystem;
Versio IOX, a storage solution; and
Nexio + AMP, a media server with
hybrid SDI/IP and HEVC/H.265
capability.
Imagine Communciations is
exhibiting at booth 4.A01.
Interra Systems has developed a range of QC and monitoring solutions for video distribution in
the OTT space.
VSNCrea makes IBC debut
VSN is unveiling VSNCrea, the
company’s new software for TV,
radio and second-screen traffic
and scheduling. The installation of
VSNCrea will enable media compa-
nies to better manage their content
production catalogues, whether
owned or acquired from third
parties, as well as its advertising,
production workflows, program-
ming and broadcast planning — all
within a single user interface.
VSNCrea and VSNExplorer are some of the solutions VSN is highlighting at
IBC2018, and are designed to enhance media operators’ workflow efficiencies
with the integration of cloud and AI support.
Cobalt Digital adds 12G-SDI support to openGear platform
Cobalt Digital is exhibiting the
9904-UDX-4K-12G UHD 12G/3G/
HD/SD-SDI up/down/cross-con-
verter, which is now available for
shipping.
Cobalt Digital
is highlighting its
new 9992-ENC-4K-HEVC
H.265 streaming encoder,
which is designed for the openGear
platform.
The 9904-UDX-4K is equipped
with the company’s latest gen-
eration of advanced image and
audio processors for the openGear
platform, and provides quad 3G-
SDI and 12G-SDI I/O with SDI
mixing and demuxing and up/
down/cross-conversion.
Other options include
RGB colour correc-
tion and SDI-to-HDR
up-mapping via Tech-
nicolor’s high dynamic
range (HDR) Intelligent
Tone Management
(ITM) processing.
IBC2018 is
also the stage for Cobalt’s new
9992-ENC-4K-HEVC H.265 stream-
ing encoder for openGear. The
platform supports quad 3G-SDI
and 12G-SDI inputs, and is config-
urable as a multi-channel encoder
of up to four channels, for 1080p60
signals and below using MPEG-2,
AVC/H.264, or HEVC/H.265 video
compression standard.
Also on display is the
9971-MV18-4K series of openGear
multiviewers. Featuring support for
the latest signal types, the MV18
integrates 18 4K/Ultra HD (UHD)
12G-SDI auto-detects inputs,
which can be scaled as needed
across a full 3840x2160 4K/UHD
raster output.
Completing Cobalt’s dem-
onstration at booth 10.B44 are
the OG-PC computer card and
9914DA-4Q-12G distribution am-
plifier. Designed for SMPTE ST
2082 single wire 4K/UHD signal
replication and transmission, the
9914DA-4Q-12G is configurable
and supports quad 1x4, dual 1x8,
or full 1x16 modes of operations.
As for OG-PC, it is an x86 com-
puter on an openGear card, and
takes a