A complete end-to-end content delivery solution

Q-Stream™ is a unique, DVB-NIP compatible, cloud service offering cost-effective live streaming and content delivery solution over broadcast satellite or terrestrial networks. a Q-Stream™ MABR/DVB-NIP cloud service featuring open-standard interfaces for easy integration with origin or CDN servers, DVB-MPE/GSE encapsulators and DVB-S2/S2X modulators at the broadcast headend side and Q-Stream™ gateway receivers and mobile player application for playout devices such as smartphone, smart TVs and Android TV STBs to be used by the end users.

The content broadcast via Q-Stream™ – live/VoD MPEG-DASH/HLS streams or any type of files - is received by the Q-Stream™ gateways and is streamed to end user devices over Wi-Fi. The Q-Stream™ cloud service can also be provided as an on-premise installation if on-premise server if required.

The Q-Stream™ solution is addressing a plethora of use cases where content delivery over satellite is the only economically viable and ecologically sound option including e-learning for rural schools, maritime and connected vehicle entertainment applications, e-health to isolated communities, digital signage and smart city applications as well as multi-screen satellite TV services. In addition to serving rural communities, sea or air crews and passengers, Q-Stream™ can be used to reduce the cost of content delivery to CDN edges and 5G nodes, deliver low latency streaming and far better user experience to viewers.





Applications:

• Multi-screen OTT-over-Satellite/Terrestrial TV with targeted advertising
• Education services for rural schools
• Download-to-carry VOD/Magazines over WiFi hotspots
• Government services, entertainment and data delivery to rural communities
• Mobility content delivery at land, sea and air, including crew farewell
• Content delivery to CDN edges, 5G nodes, Cellular backhauling sites and 5G Private Networks
• Entertainment content delivery to public sites
• 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
Making online education services available to rural schools and homes over satellite broadcast is of high importance to governments of developing countries that decided to close the digital divide.

A Q-Stream™ server (on-premise or as a cloud service) receives learning material files (including video, audio and documents) from a media server over the internet and broadcasts them over satellite to Q-Stream™ gateways installed in rural schools and homes. The gateways integrate the Q-Stream™ software stack that is responsible for extracting the educational material files from the broadcast streams, sharing them with a local LMS server making them available for local streaming to mobile devices over Wi-Fi. When many users shall be supported, a companion and more powerful Q-Stream™ Edge server is installed in addition to 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 the use case:

Available Products:

Q-Stream™ mABR Server IDLA-SERVO1-OL-OPW Item 6039	Q-Stream™ Gateway IDLA-GATWO1-OLOOO-OPW Item 6358

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