An End-To-End DVB-NIP content delivery solution
Q-Stream™ is a unique, DVB-NIP-compliant service, available both as a cloud-based and on-premises solution, offering cost-effective live streaming and content delivery over broadcast satellite or terrestrial networks.
It comprises:
- A Q-Stream™ MABR/DVB-NIP server featuring open-standard interfaces for seamless integration with origin or CDN servers, DVB-MPE/GSE encapsulators, and DVB-S2/S2X modulators at the broadcast headend; and Q-Stream™ gateway receivers and a mobile player application for end-user devices such as smartphones, smart TVs, and Android TV STBs.
- Content broadcast via Q-Stream™—live or VoD MPEG-DASH or HLS streams, as well as other file types—is received by Q-Stream™ gateways and streamed to end-user devices over Wi-Fi or 5G networks.
The Q-Stream™ solution addresses numerous use cases where content delivery over satellite or terrestrial broadcast is the most economically viable and ecologically sound option, including e-learning for rural schools, maritime and connected vehicle entertainment applications, e-health services for isolated communities, digital signage, smart city applications, and multi-screen satellite TV services.
Beyond serving rural communities, as well as sea or air crews and passengers, Q-Stream™ can reduce the cost of content delivery to CDN edges and 5G nodes, providing low-latency streaming and an enhanced user experience for viewers.
Applications:
- Multi-screen OTT-over-Satellite/Terrestrial TV with targeted advertising
- Educational services for rural schools
- Download-to-carry VoD/magazines over Wi-Fi hotspots
- Government services, entertainment, and data delivery to rural communities
- Content delivery for land, sea, and air mobility, including crew welfare
- Content delivery to CDN edges, 5G nodes, cellular backhauling sites, and 5G private networks
- Entertainment content delivery to public sites; Digital signage
- Digital signage
- Smart cities video services
- e-Health and telemedicine video applications
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Example use case: Education content delivery to rural schools
Providing online educational services to rural schools and homes via satellite broadcast is of high importance to governments in developing countries aiming to close the digital divide.
A Q-Stream™ server (on-premises or cloud-based) receives educational materials—including video, audio, and documents—from a media server over the internet and broadcasts them via satellite to Q-Stream™ gateways installed in rural schools and homes. These gateways, equipped with the Q-Stream™ software stack, extract the educational materials from the broadcast streams and share them with a local LMS server, making them available for local streaming to mobile devices over Wi-Fi. For scenarios requiring support for numerous users, a companion, more powerful Q-Stream™ Edge server can be installed alongside the gateway device.
Displaying content on a big TV screen is possible using a common android TV STB running the Q-Stream™ android app or an LMS android TV app if available. For some use cases, the Q-Stream™ Gateway is also able to store, decode and display learning material on a TV screen using HDMI or analog A/V RCA cable.
The following diagram describes the system architecture for this use case:
The Q-Stream™ App
The Q-Stream™ Player is a mobile application that allows you to discover and connect to DVB-NIP/DVB-I Gateways available on your network. and stream live broadcast TV, on demand videos, media content, or download content for later viewing from the DVB-NIP/DVB-I Gateways connected on your network. Access to rich media content guides and program information available via the Gateway device provides a perfect multi-screen TV watching experience. Users can also enter manually a URL of an online DVB-I Service List, however, streaming of online services may not be possible due to, for example, restrictions related to content access rights or unsupported video streaming and decoding formats.
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