ELEVATE YOUR OTT SERVICES WITH ALTITUDE STREAM TV.
Altitude Stream TV is a globally deployed, cloud-native service that takes the pain out of aggregating, encoding and packaging content for streaming and OTT platforms.
Altitude Stream TV aggregates video services from satellite, cable and playout centres worldwide into Encompass’ private media cloud. We holistically manage your services from onboarding new streams to 24/7 monitoring, reducing complexity. Powerful ABR encoding, JIT packaging and encryption are deployed securely in geo redundant cloud regions, allowing services to be added and removed rapidly in-line with rights agreements to meet your deadlines.
CLOUD NATIVE Altitude Media Cloud powers Encompass’ cloud-native services. Altitude is a scalable and flexible processing platform designed to support the most demanding media applications. The platform is built for broadcast, providing customers with on-demand and commitment-based pricing options and industry-defining SLAs.
ONBOARDING Encompass manages the process of onboarding your services from aggregating signals and ensuring technical standards, all the way up to the launch – leaving you to focus on acquiring new rights, providing first-class user experience and growing the business.
MANAGED SERVICE Altitude Stream TV is a fully managed service monitored from our 24/7 network operations center, ensuring maximum uptime. In addition, you have direct visibility of your streams within a secure customer monitoring portal.
Altitude Streaming TV Benefits
Altitude Stream TV Technical Specifications
Cloud Native
Designed cloud first with ABR encoding, packaging, encryption, origin and cache service templates deployable in any Altitude region, reducing service start-up or configuration change duration.
International Aggregation:
With 8 facilities on 4 continents; 140+ ground antennas; 34,000 route miles of dedicated fiber; and origination of 1,500+ services, Encompass is uniquely positioned to acquire and process channels for streaming platforms.
Acquisition
Channels can be downlinked from satellite, acquired from fiber or via the internet, supporting common protocols, including SRT, RIST and Zixi, plus direct baseband access to the thousands of services Encompass operates on behalf of broadcasters.
Managed & Monitored Services
Full-time services managed and monitored 24/7 in network operations centers based in our facilities with powerful quality management tools and real-time reporting, ensuring all streams adhere to strict standards and deliver the highest uptime.
Customer Monitoring Portal
See how your streams are performing with our customer monitoring portal with web-based monitor wall and 72hrs compliance recordings as standard.
Geo Redundancy
All Altitude stream services are deployed in at least 2 diverse Altitude regions by default, ensuring maximum uptime.
Software-based Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Encoding
: Capable of high bitrate ladders of mixed SD, HD and UHD resolutions and frame rates up to 60P.
OPTIMIZED IP DELIVERY
HLS, MPEG-DASH and Microsoft Smooth -Streaming (MSS).
Encryption
Fairplay, Widevine and PlayReady (V4.0+), supporting CPIX protocol.
Closed Captioning & Subtitling Support:
WebVTT, IMSC1 embedded CC and TTML.
Origin Services
Flexible manifest manipulation to tailor streams to devices and platforms, plus CDN shield and peering with tier one CDNs.
DVR Window
Optionally add with our origin services from a few minutes to days allowing viewers to rewind on demand.
Server-side Ad Insertion (SSAI)
SCTE-35 insertion and optional support of Ad Insertion technologies and partners.
Live 2 VOD Support
Optional workflows to harvest live segments for processing with Cloud VOD.
Simplified Streaming
PROVEN
Be confident with our battle-tested packaging and encryption standards support that is in daily use, delivering to the world’s largest platforms.
SECURE
Be safe with the knowledge that Encompass securely operates your services. We also support CPIX protocol, ensuring your encryption is rotated and up to date.
INTEGRATED
Be future proof with Altitude Media Cloud service. You can easily add individual options, including DVR window or ad insertion or pair it with another Altitude service such as playout and archive.
