DVB to IP Gateway Solution
The Streamron IPTV Gateway captures live TV and radio channels from local cable operators and terrestrial and satellite receivers and transmits them over IP networks. Live audio/video content is received from various sources, such as DVB, ATSC or analogue transponders, SHOUTcast, IceCast, MMS, Motion JPEG, Composite S-Video and UHF/VHF sources. Audio/video sources are captured and processed using standard off-the-shelf tuner cards. The Streamron DVB to IP gateway supports the capture and transmission of FTA (free to air) or non-FTA video sources.
Management & Monitoring
Web management
Dedicated Streaming NIC
Link Aggregation (bonding)
Live streamer features
EPG (EIT) Pass-Through (Electronic Program Guide)
Teletext Pass-Through
Track (PID) Filtering
EIT to XMLTV Converter
CAM Support (DVB-CI)
Product Characteristics and Detailed Features
Remote Web-Based Management, Monitoring and Content Delivery Applications
Streamron supports protocols for data transmission, session control, content delivery & management and media server management & monitoring. Its remote web-based management is user-friendly, secure and allows system configuration and task administration at a distance. This remote administration also allows you to outsource administration to preferred service providers in order to minimize costs and human-errors. All the functionality provided by the web administration is also available via SOAP.
Exceptional Product Modularity
The modularity of the Streamron IPTV Gateway is outstanding. The great variety of Streamron IPTV Gateway components, support for off-the-shelf servers and A/V tuner cards and the Linux-based system allows case by case product assembly according to the particular IPTV project needs and budget. It can be assembled as DVB gateway, ATSC gateway, analogue gateway or as gateway supporting a mix of these A/V content sources. The number of A/V tuner cards in a particular IPTV gateway product is in most cases defined by the particular project needs in order to minimize project costs and maximize product efficiency.
Great Live Streaming Performance
The Streamron IPTV Gateway architecture and special algorithms support exceptional performance even on low-specification hardware platforms. Its performance is additionally enhanced via the implementation of memory caching and network optimizer functions. The capture and transition of a few hundred A/V streams can be processed on most average network servers.
Software Versions
Nevron not only provides IPTV products, but also standalone software editions. One of them is the IPTV Gateway software. While software editions enable rapid product delivery, installation and configuration can be done easily and remotely. Support for off-the-shelf servers also enables Nevron's partners or end customers to get a proper server on the local market or use already existing servers.
Live TV, Radio, Camera and Other Live A/V Feeds
The Streamron DVB to IP gateway captures live audio/video content from various input sources. The A/V source can be captured from DVB (DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-C, DVB-C2), ATSC and analogue tuner cards, which can receive signals from satellites, terrestrial transmitters or cable networks. Furthermore, the A/V source can be captured from a UDP socket (IPTV streams), LAN and WAN networks (SHOUTcast and IceCast audio streams, MMS and Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) formats) and from various analogue sources (composite video, S-Video, FM and RF, such as UHF and VHF).
Off-the-Shelf Audio/Video Tuner Cards/Adapters
Capturing non-FTA (encrypted) and FTA (free to air) audio/video streams is realized via standard off-the-shelf A/V tuner cards of different types (analogue, DVB, ATSC) and from various providers. Most of these cards also support conditional access modules (CAM) via a standard conditional access interface (CI) for watching encrypted channels. With the cards freely available on the market, delivery is available from various suppliers.
Off-the-Shelf Servers, Linux OS Based
Streamron is designed to be cost effective. It is built on top of Linux OS using open-sourced Linux TV drivers, which serve as a basis for using standard and cost-effective off-the-shelf HW servers from HP, IBM, SuperMicro or other vendors.
H.264 / MPEG4 High-Quality and Other Video Formats
Streamron captures A/V signals and converts them to the Transport Stream format while preserving the original content encoding e.g. MPEG2 or MPEG4. If the encoding is other than MPEG2 or MPEG4, Streamron exploits hardware encoder cards and decodes the signals from their native format, encodes them to MPEG2 or MPEG4 (H.264) video and MP2, MP3, AC3 and AAC audio formats and sends the signals over the IP stream (multicast streaming) via the designated IP network.
EPG, CAM Support and Other Functionalities
The Streamron live streaming server supports EPG (Electronic Program Guide), which provides users of TV, radio and other media applications with scheduling and other channel information. A conditional access module (CAM) represents a hardware module in which a smart card can be inserted for the decryption of encrypted channels.
UDP, RTP/UDP, TS, IGMP
The Streamron DVB-to-IP gateway enables the transmission of A/V live streams using the transport stream (TS) standard format, the IGMP communication protocol and the UDP protocol. IGMP enables connection to a multicast stream while UDP protocol supports multicasting by transmitting the desired audio/video stream to all subscribers at the same time.
Multicast Support
The Streamron DVB-to-IP gateway supports multicast streaming, which is one of the most efficient forms of transmission. The bandwidth usage for the transmission of all streams is always the same, regardless of the number of users connected. It is a one-to-many system, where the streams are sent only once to all the specified clients on the IP network. At the same time, all clients access the same available streams on the IP network.
