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Enabling adaptive video content delivery for desktop PCs and mobile devices

As a proven leader in the mobile industry, Smith Micro is proud to present the Vidio platform as the world's most advanced all in one video transcoding and streaming solution. Vidio is the most comprehensive video delivery platform for broadcasting both live as well as on-demand content to the web or any web-enabled device.

We recognize the complexities of supporting a multitude of content, mobile devices, video and audio formats, and network speeds. In addition, issues such as over the top content and bandwidth waste also create additional problems. Vidio is an innovative solution to these numerous problems.

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Vidio - Product Details

Transcoding

Vidio has a specially designed transcoder that is unique in that it is able to ingest and transcode content from many different sources, such as a content management system, a folder on your network, a specific YouTube link, and much more. The Vidio Transcoder is also able to intelligently know what formats are necessary and creates the minimal number accordingly. This greatly impacts the amount of CPU and storage space necessary to operate your video content delivery operations. Finally, the Vidio Transcoder is able to operate with many advertising aggregates to efficiently blend video advertisements to the content. You can now monetize and add value to over the top traffic as a solution to the additional bandwidth consumption.

Streaming

The Vidio delivery platform contains an unparalleled streamer that is able to do more than just simply deliver content. It is an intelligent streamer that can detect the end user’s device and send the highest quality optimized video that the device can support. It can also detect changes in the network conditions and adjust the stream accordingly. Without this, users will experience jitters, additional buffering times, image artifacts, and out of sync audio. The Vidio Streamer can send the content to any web-enabled device, without the need to install a client as it utilizes the device’s native media player.

Capacity and Redundant Overflow

Smith Micro understands that certain occurrences, such as live events, may cause demand for content to increase much higher than the customer can handle. That’s why Smith Micro offers a Capacity Overflow solution. With Capacity Overflow, customers don’t need to deploy and set up new hardware, since Smith Micro handles the additional capacity increase from its own datacenter.

Customers also have the option of purchasing Redundant Overflow Insurance, which enables customers to maximize uptime by allowing Smith Micro to host additional servers in its datacenter. Smith Micro seamlessly takes over the delivery of content if the customer’s servers were to go offline due to events (such as a catastrophic failure). With Redundant Overflow Insurance, customers can rest easy knowing they’re utilizing the best reliability in the industry.

Vidio Features and Benefits

Video Delivery Platform

Vidio is a software-based video content delivery and optimization platform that’s easy to integrate and deploy. Vidio provides dynamic transcoding and optimized video delivery to desktop and mobile platforms. The transcoding process simplifies the content ingestion and format translation of video assets.

One of the primary benefits of this video delivery platform is its ability to only transcode video to the minimum required elementary formats and produce the appropriate stream format in real-time. This step saves a significant amount of storage and preprocessing computing power.

In addition, the appropriate video parameters are optimized for delivery to the user’s current viewing and network conditions. This individual tailoring of the video stream creates a consistent video viewing experience along with significant bandwidth savings for the operator. Vidio supports content ingestion via XML APIs or an intuitive web-based user interface.

Adaptive Content Optimization

Unlike the competitive adaptive streaming solutions that are tuned only for the fixed network, Vidio is tuned to adapt and efficiently handle both RF and fixed networks. Vidio leverages any device’s native media player and does not require any additional client application download. The adaptive content optimization platform enables video delivery in just a few clicks and supports most standard video/audio codecs.

Vidio is capable of producing an adaptive content delivery stream to suit the bandwidth conditions of the user’s device and network, resulting in consistent playback across varying network conditions. The solution automatically detects the handset and ensures that the appropriately formatted video is delivered on demand.

The adaptive video delivery platform can support up to 2,000 simultaneous RTSP output streams for video on demand (VOD), 2,000 simultaneous streams for live streaming, and 4,500 HTTP streams on a system with 1Gb/sec interface. Since this requires fewer servers to support a high volume of video streams, Vidio offers a total cost of ownership (TCO) significantly lower than alternative approaches.

Key Features

Vidio has a long list of features that will offer more to carriers and content owners while enhancing the user experience. Here is a short sample of what Vidio has to offer:

Adaptive Content Delivery/Streaming: Bandwidth savings of up to 40%.
iPhone and iPad Support on iOS: More than 3 million iPads and 6 million iPhones. Limited support from competitors.
Blackberry and Android Support: 36% and 28% of the smartphone market respectively.
One-Click Video Ingestion: On-the-fly formatting; no pre- ingestion required.
Scalability: Up to 2,000 RTSP Video On Demand (VOD) sessions, 2,000 LIVE sessions, and 4,500 HTTP streams.
Capacity/Redundant Overflow: Our datacenter helps you handle excess capacity and maximize uptime during content-heavy occurrences.
Multiple Screen Convergence: Follow Me TV support.
Massive Supported Device Database: Over 91 million worldwide devices supported.
Real-Time Ad Insertion: Increased ROI and revenue stream.
Fastest Video Startup: Enhanced user experience.

Vidio Customer Solutions

Wireless Operators

According to Cisco market data, mobile data traffic will roughly double each year from 2008 through 2013, and videos will comprise as much as 64% of the world's mobile data traffic by 2013. It’s clear that wireless operators should prepare to meet this rising demand.

But deploying a robust video content delivery solution involves several hurdles. Hosting thousands of videos adds significant hardware costs and network congestion. Customers are sensitive to video download delays, poor image quality, and any non-intuitive user experience. Carriers need a powerful video delivery solution that easily fits into their infrastructure and supports all handsets in their portfolio.

Smith Micro’s Vidio enables carriers to overcome all the typical barriers to mobile video deployment. They can deliver mobile video quickly and to all video-capable devices. The Vidio platform’s variable bit-rate streaming technology eliminates image freezing and skipping.

Vidio Streaming System

Operators can deliver value-added services such as VOD and live TV, all while reducing the bandwidth congestion they would otherwise face by 15-40%. The solution can help optimize any data network by reducing processing time and the need for additional back-end storage.

Shown below are several scenarios in which the use of the Vidio adaptive video platform would benefit a wireless operator.

Vidio Use-Case Scenarios

Multiple Service Operators

Multiple Service Operators (MSOs) need a seamless solution to extend their existing video offerings across multiple screens. Vidio can address this need by interoperating with the existing video delivery systems in the MSO’s network and extending the video feeds to any mobile device. Since Vidio provides efficient streaming across fixed and RF networks, the MSO’s customers will have a consistent viewing experience on all their devices.

Vidio MSO Solutions
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Content Owners, Aggregators and Publishers

Mobilizing web video is a serious challenge for video content owners. Online video content comes in many different formats that need to be ingested and formatted for delivery to all types of mobile phones, with different software, over unpredictable wireless network connections. All this complexity can lead to an unfavorable user experience. Creating an in-house video streaming infrastructure is a daunting and expensive undertaking.

With Vidio, content owners, aggregators, and publishers can easily port their content to mobile devices. Vidio allows you to create the most engaging mobile user experience so consumers can seamlessly interact with your brand and content. Content owners can use Smith Micro’s Vidio as a black box solution that accepts any incoming video format and outputs video to desktop or mobile devices, supporting multiple screen sizes, video codecs, frame rates, bit rates, and network protocols.

The Vidio platform also helps content owners monetize their content via video-based ad ingestion. The point-and-click navigation makes it easy to navigate and find video content for Internet-enabled devices. An intelligent personalization engine even tracks the video-viewing preferences of any user on the go. Smith Micro’s cost-effective adaptive video solution delivers high-quality media, scalable to many simultaneous users with consistency and reliability. Vidio allows content owners to expand their content distribution and ultimately grow their subscription base and revenue.

If you're interested in this Smith Micro solution or have further questions or inquiries, please use the Request Information form to the left or email us at sales@smithmicro.com.