Ateme and Broadpeak will enable high-quality, ultra-low latency live multiscreen with DVB-I services

The joint solution will leverage machine learning, ABR multicast, CMAF and HTTP block transfer based encryption techniques to improve live latency in ABR and QoE.

Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery networks (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators, and Atem have announced a new solution High-quality, ultra-low latency live video streaming that supports the emerging standard ecosystem DVB-I.

The joint solution leverages advanced technologies such as machine learning-based encoding, ABR multicast, low-latency CMAF and HTTP Chunk Transfer Encoding (CTE), enabling pay-TV operators to access multiple screens to deliver a superior quality experience (QoE) for live broadcasts with just 1 second end-to-end latency.

“Ateme continually works to deliver a superior experience and excellent quality for ABR video by reducing OPEX and CAPEX for pay TV operators,” he says. Michel Artières, CEO of the company. "Latency is an important issue for our customers. Leveraging our continued efforts toward innovation, we have implemented proprietary machine learning-based compression, minimizing any video channel buffering. Through our partnership with Broadpeak, the leader in ABR multicasting, we can dramatically improve the quality of live video streaming."

The solution combines Ateme's content-friendly coding tools into its solution Titan with Broadpeak's BkS350 source and server package, BkE200 transcaster server, and ABR's multicast nanoCDN solution. Broadpeak's nanoCDN is the only ABR multicast technology on the market that combines multicast delivery with CMAF and HTTP CTE, enabling continuous (i.e. real-time) video delivery. Thanks to ABR's multicast technology, operators can guarantee a stable network, similar to IPTV, and reduce the buffer to an acceptable size.

The adaptive coding Titan content is based on machine learning algorithms, reducing not only latency, but also bitrate for multi-screen delivery and CDN costs by up to 50% with the same video quality. Ateme's full ownership and control of its video technology is a unique advantage, ensuring that pay TV operators receive a variety of codecs, constantly moving towards more efficient compression and better optimized ABR delivery.

Jacques Le Mancq, CEO of Broadpeak, emphasizes that "many technology providers claim to have low-latency video streaming solutions, which reduce the size of the player buffer without optimizing the network. However, the performance of these solutions is produced in a laboratory, so they are not responsible for the jitter in real-world networks or the succession of rejections that can occur, which affects QoE. We can solve these problems from a comprehensive perspective, including the solution headend and network components, which confirms our position as a leader in providing innovative content delivery solutions that ensure an impeccable quality of experience on all screens.”