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qarva_qarva 01/09/2015 13:28 Page 1 Qarva is dedicated to optimising the Quality of Experience of your subscribers. With the Qarva ecosystem on your side you will sign more subscribers and keep more, achieving higher ARPU and lower OPEX. with the viewer often watching with a 20-40 second delay to Live TV. In addition, the further the subscriber is from the streaming server the more the delay as the bitrate deteriorates and so the video quality suffers. Major international providers have to address the problem with thousands of cascaded CDN (Content Delivery Network) servers around the world. This shortens the effective distance from server to subscriber but is very expensive and doesn’t resolve problems with delay to Live TV and slow channel change. Qarva’s aQua Video Server running MultiPipe addresses this problem. Qarva Multipipe enables the subscriber to use the whole bandwidth of the local Internet connection for accessing video even from another continent, even in HD. Qarva Multipipe protocol is based on TCP/IP. The proprietary protocol divides the stream in to multiple sub-streams then uses persistent connections to multiple streaming servers around the world to “Qarva is dedicated to optimising QoE for your subscribers.” stolen a march on other platforms in the provision of a 4K UHD option for subscribers, but even in the US they are unable to provision better than 15Mb/s for VoD. With Qarva MultiPipe this performance is doubled for live streaming 4K UHD. At IBC 2015 (stand 14.E30) Qarva will demonstrate live streaming at 30Mb/s of the Eutelsat 4K UHD show channel, downlinked at Qarva’s Tbilisi HQ and Qarva: Your partner in QoE hether it is on managed networks or over the open Internet, Qarva is all about making the IP Television experience as good, or better, than broadcast. All of its solutions address the speed, reliabi ]H[