A1 Croatia decides to encode and distribute its live channels with Appear's NEO series

NEO solutions Appear of helped a A1 Croatia transform and optimize your OTT channel encoding and distribution workflow, including fully transcoding processes on-premises.

A1 Croatia, one of the largest telecommunications companies in Croatia, has migrated its current transcoding platform and ABR distribution to server-based transcoding platform NEO Series of Appear, feeding more than 300 high-capacity live channels.

Appear's NEO series is a solution for server based compression high capacity, scalable and “energy efficient”. The solution plug-and-play ofrece transcodificación HEVC acelerada simultáneamente con transcodificación AVC, lo que simplifica la implementación y las operaciones del servidor y, por lo tanto, “reduce el coste total de propiedad”.

La serie NEO, cuya instalación y monitorización ha sido llevada a cabo por el equipo de soporte de Appear, gestionará la compresión de vídeo por software para la distribución de las experiencias multimedia en directo de A1 Croatia, with support for IPTV, OTT o aplicaciones combinadas.

Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, CEO de Appear, identifica una tendencia favorable to its solutions in the broadcast sector: “We are seeing more and more customers move away from the cloud when it comes to always-on and processing-intensive applications, such as ABR transcoding, due to the cost and resource efficiencies that a server-based solution brings.”