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X-PLATFORM
July 2017
New alliance to develop OTT
broadcast service in Thailand
According to Cobalt Digital, FAST-STREAM OTT is the first system of its kind to be
able to insert data frame accurately into baseband video as prescribed in the SCTE
specification.
Cobalt Digital launches
FAST-STREAM OTT platform
Thaicom, Huawei Technologies (Thailand) and Starcor Media Technologies, are jointly developing an OTT platform in Thailand.
Satellite operator Thaicom has
signed a memorandum of under
standing (MOU) with Huawei
Technologies (Thailand) and
Starcor Media Technologies, an
end-to-end, over-the-top (OTT)
and IPTV solutions provider, for the
development of an OTT platform
in Thailand.
Under the new partnership, the
companies will create “value-added
services for the next-generation
OTT platform for enterprise, edu
cational, government and telecom
sectors in Thailand”.
According to the companies,
they will work to develop content-
rich OTT ecosystem services, in
cluding TV streaming and video-
on-demand (VoD).
The creation of this joint OTT
ecosystem, they added, will ben
efit telecom operators in Thailand,
who will be able to integrate the
OTT services with their products
and deliver their content to multi-
screen devices such as smart TVs,
smartphones, tablets and note
books.
For Huawei, the partnership
with Thaicom and Starcor is an
example of the company’s deter
mination to champion OTT-as-
a-service (OTTaaS) platform on a
global scale in a big data and cloud
era, revealed Robin Liu, director
of enterprise business, Huawei
Technologies (Thailand).
He added: “Satellite technology
serves as an enabler to unlock the
digital ecosystem for new market
opportunities such as OTT. Our
goal is to equip our customers with
the advanced industrial cloud and
big data technologies, to provide
a powerful, best-in-class OTTaaS
platform, which combines fast
speed and rich media resources
with the renowned reliability of
Thaicom’s satellite technology.”
Under the MOU, Thaicom will
provide the network connectivity
and data centre services for Huawei
and Starcor. Huawei will provide
the infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
— cloud computing that provides
virtualised computing resources
over the Internet, while Starcor
will contribute the OTTaaS plat
forms, and integrate third-party
media and content management
platforms.
Cobalt Digital has announced the
availability of its FAST-STREAM
over-the-top (OTT) platform for
frame-accurate SCTE trigger (FAST)
insertion and enhanced H.264 OTT
streaming.
According to Cobalt Digital,
FAST-STREAM OTT is the first
system of its kind to be able to
insert data frame accurately into
baseband video as prescribed in
the SCTE specification.
Built with terrestrial over-
the-air, direct-broadcast satellite,
terrestrial cable/MSO, and OTT
Internet streaming providers in
mind, the FAST-STREAM OTT sys
tem interfaces with automation
and uses timestamps to insert SCTE
104 metadata frame accurately and
deterministically into baseband
SDI. It then performs high-quality
H.264 encodes designed to meet
sophisticated delivery require
ments in real time.
More importantly, during the
compressi