Haivision Launches Low Latency IP Video Transcoder

Haivision has unveiled its real-time low latency transcoding solutions Kraken Enterprise and Kraken ISR in Las Vegas.

Kraken systems, which Haivision shown at NAB, have been optimized for high efficiency and low latency performance, representing the ideal solution for demanding video delivery applications in the education, enterprise and military sectors.

The Kraken is offered in two formats: Enterprise and ISR. Both models include compression format conversion, media scaling, stream encryption, stream encapsulation, and stream replication capabilities. The Kraken Enterprise is capable of taming large volatile IP video streams, such as those typically used in digital video broadcasts, converting them into IP video streams that can be easily used over the network and formatted so that all authorized users can use them, whether through a set-top box, laptop or any mobile device. The Kraken ISR covers the specific challenges of the world of military intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), not only offering low latency, but also MISP-compliant management of meta data.

The Kraken Enterprise enables Haivision Furnace's IP video system to deliver live HD digital broadcast content, which could only be available as MPEG-2 at bit rates up to 19.4 Mbps, as H.264 multicast with each output stream at the bit rate, resolution, frame rate and other encoding parameters that have been specifically tuned for network capabilities and the capabilities of receiving devices. As a result, H.264 output streams that have been tuned for set-top boxes, laptops and mobile devices can, for example, be sent at 6 Mbps, 2 Mbps and 700 kbps, respectively.

The Kraken ISR supports MISP metadata, accurately passing through critical KLV/CoT data that can be essential when sending information about military missions, for example. The Kraken ISR also allows users to monitor the completely uncompressed signal, deleting and injecting metadata as required through advanced ISR operating systems.