Entropic Communications has announced that the company has partnered with Zenverge to introduce a joint reference design, combining Zenverge's powerful quad HD stream transcoding technology with Entropic's MoCA 2.0 (Multimedia over Coax) silicon solutions.
Ensuring a seamless content viewing experience throughout the home and on any device, the combined reference design features Zenverge's ZN200 transcoder and Entropic's EN2710 MoCA silicon and is the first design to be delivered to market that combines transcoding with MoCA 2.0.
Service providers benefit from Zenverge's high-performance, low-latency digital media IC, which utilizes a video pipeline capable of transcoding up to four independent HD streams or up to 16 independent SD streams, the company stated in a press release.
“Our connected home entertainment strategy continues to address the evolving needs of service providers and consumers by being on the forefront of new products with market leading reference designs. A MoCA transcoder product will bring an enhanced user experience to the consumer while driving ARPU for the service provider,” said Vinay Gokhale, senior vice president, Marketing and Business Development, Entropic. “Zenverge's architecture provides a cost-effective and scalable solution for viewing multimedia on any device.”
As Entropic's MoCA 2.0 silicon, which is fully backwards interoperable with existing MoCA enabled devices, delivers the most robust, powerful and secure home networking backbone to reliably distribute bandwidth-intensive content to any CE device, service providers gain yet another means to monetize their existing MoCA investments.
By enabling their subscribers the freedom to view their favorite multimedia content on mobile consumer electronics (CE) devices, the joint reference design provides service providers a scalable way to offer TV everywhere services.
In other news, Zenverge and PacketVideo Corporation, a provider of interactive media solutions and apps recently announced that they will be strategically partnering to bring Zenverge's transcoding technology and PacketVideo’s TwonkyServer to provide a one stop media streaming solution.
This new media streaming with the first hardware transcoding solution will be demonstrated at the Zenverge and Twonky demo suites during CES 2012.
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