Edgeware Fast Channel Change (FCC) offers visible quality enhancements to your live IPTV service, even over unreliable networks. It prevents channel change delays, bringing zap time to less than a second. It also provides UDP Retransmission for live and VOD, eliminating packet loss by resending corrupted packets.
By deploying Fast Channel Change (FCC) and live retransmission at the network edge, you can dramatically offload unicast TV traffic and avoid costly and time-consuming network upgrades. In addition, you reduce latency and risks of congestion, delivering a seamless viewing experience to your IPTV customers.
Fast Channel Change
WHAT IT DOES
- FCC and UDP RET with guaranteed performance regardless of number and mix of request
- Instant scalability through license keys of up to 20 Gbps output and 4 Gbps ingest per 1U server
- Easy integration with set-top box clients (RFC compliant)
- MTBF of 10 years for easy operation and minimal operating expense
- Less than a second zap time
- Less than 85W power consumption at max load
Fast Channel Change
HOW IT WORKS
- Edgeware FCC server receives and caches the IP multicast streams.
- During a channel change, the FCC server delivers unique burst and RET packets to the viewer’s set-top box.
- It corrects visual and audio distortion due to packet loss by resending lost video packets.
- This results in a fast (less than a second) and seamless channel change experience to the viewer.
Fast Channel Change
HOW TO DEPLOY
Edgeware Fast Channel Change is deployed on a purpose-built Edgeware TV server, a highly distributable and reliable network appliance with a minimal power consumption and operating expense. It can be deployed anywhere in the network – centrally or at the edge for maximum quality of experience.