MediaCast ATSC
Signaling & Delivery Server for ATSC 3.0 Network
ENENSYS’ virtualized software designed to support the delivery of live contents from HEVC encoders or Non Real Time (NRT) content over ATSC3.0 networks using ROUTE and MMTP protocols.
Highlights
Delivery of Live HEVC Encoders
ATSC 3.0 has defined HEVC as the video encoding format. The ATSC 3.0 encoders generate either DASH or MPU segments containing all the audiovisual content. MediaCast ATSC interfaces with multiple encoders in order to deliver DASH segments over a ROUTE IP stream and MPU segments over a MMTP IP stream.
Non-real Time Service Delivery
Non-real Time (NRT) services are applications generated by data servers for delivering Electronic Service Guide (ESG), Emergency Alert Service (AEA), interactive applications or any kind of content to be download onto the receiver. MediaCast ATSC is designed to deliver NRT services over ROUTE protocol.
Service Signaling
Service Signaling provides service discovery and description information. The Service List Table (SLT) enables the receiver to build a basic service list and bootstrap the discovery of the SLS for each ATSC 3.0 service. The SLT can enable very rapid acquisition of basic service information. The Service Layer Signaling (SLS) enables the receiver to discover and access ATSC 3.0 services and their content components. MediaCast ATSC generates both SLT and SLS and delivers them over ROUTE and MMTP protocols.
Software-based and Virtualized
The MediaCast ATSC is a pure Software-based ATSC 3.0 Signaling and Delivery server. It can run on any COTS (Commercial Of The Shelf) server. Dedicated to virtualized environment, the MediaCast ATSC can be deployed using Docker container or Virtual Machine. Being virtualized, it can be installed along with other head-end function on a same server.
Applications
- Linear content delivery over ROUTE or MMTP
- App-based service delivery over ROUTE
- Electronic Service Guide (ESG) delivery over ROUTE
- Emergency Alert Information (AEA) delivery over ROUTE
- ATSC 3.0 signaling tables generation
Other Benefits
- Virtualized application designed for the delivery of multimedia data over the ATSC 3.0 network
- Enable to aggregate up to 20 live and NRT content feeds for IP Multicast outputs
- Support of ROUTE to deliver MPEG-DASH segments and MMTP to deliver Media Processing Units (MPU)
- Intuitive GUI – Easy to setup and to monitor
Technical specifications
INPUT
Control
1x Virtual Network Interface to access GUI/SNMP/REST API
Linear and NRT
1x Virtual Network Interface to manage all Linear DASH/MPU and NRT (ESG, AEA, Apps,...) contents
OUTPUT
ROUTE and MMTP streams
1x Virtual Network Interface for all ROUTE/MMTP
output streams
FEATURING
ROUTE Delivery
DASH segments encapsulation into LCT sessions and ROUTE signaling for ROUTE delivery
WebDav or HTTP PULL provisionning to interface with
encoders
MMTP Delivery
MPU segment encapsulation into MMT packet and MMT signaling for MMTP delivery
WebDav or HTTP PULL provisionning to interface with
encoders
NRT & App-Based Delivery
Delivery of 3rd party data over ATSC 3.0 over ROUTE
protocol
FTP PUSH or HTTP PULL provisionning to interface with 3rd party servers
Electronic Service Guide Delivery
ESG delivery over ROUTE protocol
ESG metadata managed : OMA-BCAST, PSIP PCMP, …
FTP PUSH or FTP PULL provisionning to interface with
ESG servers
Advanced Emergency InformAtion Delivery
AEA delivery over ROUTE protocol
FTP PUSH provisionning to interface with EAS server
Signaling
Service description to generate LLS/SLT tables
SLS fragments generation and delivery
Synchronization
NTP/PTP based
Monitoring and Supervision
Input services monitoring (bit rate, components, ESG content,...)
REST API
SNMP v2 Support
Physical
Hypervisor
Container
Processing
RAM
HDD
ATSC 3.0 global architecture
Ordering codes
MediaCast ATSC
Software-based signaling and delivery server for ATSC 3.0
