Synamedia Integrates Zixi Into D9800 Network Transport Receiver

Synamedia has integrated Zixi in to the D9800 Network Transport Receiver.

The Synamedia D9800 is the most versatile receiver designed for today's rapidly changing media environment that allows content providers the flexibility to migrate easily from satellite to terrestrial technologies in one device. Synamedia has also integrated the Virtual Digital Content Manager (DCM) platform into Zixi to offer virtualized and software-based video processing. Demanded by the industry largest content providers, Zixi's proven, best-of-breed IP distribution coupled with Synamedia’s broad portfolio will allow a graceful path to terrestrial distribution from traditional satellite distribution.

The D9800, traditionally used for satellite distribution in combination with Synamedia's PowerVu Network Center (PNC), employs an all-in-one interface that allows traditional content providers the tools to gracefully transition to the next generation of distribution solutions and embrace terrestrial transport without disruption, all while providing the same or better distribution, control, and reliability of satellite. The Virtual DCM encoding and multiplexing platform is a key component for video processing in both content and service provider headends.

D9800 and Virtual DCM customers can take advantage of Zixi’s well-proven methods of optimizing IP-networks delivering live video content in real-time, leveraging a fast, secure and reliable contribution methodology for getting video content over terrestrial means. Zixi provides best-in-class resiliency using a combination of content-aware and network adaptive forward error correction, error recovery, congestion avoidance, bonding of multiple transmission paths and dynamic feedback to control encoder rate, all at a minimal latency.