MediaKind Aquila Live Streaming - MKP 101 0019

MediaKind Aquila Live Streaming

Premium video compression
Aquila Live Streaming is the latest solution from MediaKind for streaming compression headends, and is built on over 25 years heritage in providing such solutions. It is based around MediaKind’s software encoder for streaming applications. It also includes MediaKind's packager, and origin server.
• Wide player and device support for all major segment and manifest formats (HLS, SS, DASH, CMAF)
• The minimum bit-rate required whilst maintaining picture quality whether using MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC or HEVC
• SD, HD, 1080P or UHD services, including support for High Dynamic Range
• Wide audio codec support
• Rich subtitles management including ingest of DVB subtitles, teletext and closed caption and their translations for each format
• Encryption with a wide variety of formats and DRMs
• AI Compression Technology (ACT) delivers the best possible quality with available compute with real time content analysis codec optimisation.

Single solution for all infrastructures

As operating a video headend is not the same for all, Aquila Live Streaming can be deployed in different ways:

Deployed either on:
• MediaKind reference hardware
• Dedicated data center hardware
• Private Cloud infrastructure
• Public Cloud deployment
• Optional nCompass control

Through integral industry and technology partner integrations, Aquila Live Streaming provides a complete content delivery solution.

Aquila Live Streaming from MediaKind is a streaming headend solution which enables streamers and
IPTV to minimize costs whilst maintaining user experience. It can also help improve operational
efficiency, and provides a straightforward evolutionary path to all IP workflows, and deployment in
private and public cloud.

Video compression performance
Video quality or compression performance is at the heart of Aquila. It allows headend operators to reduce the bit-rate required for each of their services whilst
maintaining the picture quality. This can providesignificant savings in transmission costs, or allow new services such as UHD channels to be launched within existing transmission network capacity.

MediaKind’s video algorithm team continually strive to improve the compression performance, not only on the
latest codecs such as HEVC and VVC but also on MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG-2.

Operational Excellence
Operational excellence is important and it helps provide the 99.999% reliability or better, that consumers expect. With the ever increasing pace of change, areas such as ease of operation, maintenance, upgrade, and the flexibility to easily expand a system in scale or functionality are increasingly important.

The software components within Aquila are all designed to be ‘cloud native’, which means that they are based around a micro-services architecture.

This allows the same components within a system (or similar) to be deployed as software only, on bare metal, or in a private or public cloud instance. For those who want a traditional, appliance style system, these same components can be deployed on individual servers

Ultimately this means everyone can access the benefits offered by Aquila today in the deployment model that suits their needs today, but with a clear evolutionary route to all IP workflows, and even cloud deployment in the future