Bouygues Telecom, the French triple-play provider, has selected Envivio Muse Video on Demand encoding software to power its multiscreen video services in a fully virtualized software environment to millions of subscribers. This deployment was recently launched using VMWare virtualization and Envivio video processing solutions.
Bouygues Telecom chose Envivio’s Muse On-Demand file-based transcoding solution, which is specifically designed for premium on-demand TV Everywhere services. Bouygues Telecom’s IPTV/OTT Head-end Representative, Thibaut Keraval comments, “Thanks to Envivio, we were able to upgrade our network infrastructure to support the latest TV Everywhere on-demand, multi-screen video services without replacing our existing infrastructure, including our virtualized VMWare software and Blade servers, saving us CapEx, OpEx and a lot of headaches.â€
“We designed Envivio Muse to enable operators to build advanced media services into their networks, provide exceptional control processing and significantly reduce operational costs,†says Envivio Vice President-Products and Solutions, Boris Felts. “Muse is optimized to run in virtual environments. As a result, it provides great flexibility and elasticity, while also ensuring a robust, reliable and high-quality video service. Unlike with native hardware solutions, our software approach remains unaffected by operating in a virtual environment.â€
“Video service providers can easily deploy Envivio software solutions in a virtualized private or public cloud environment, reducing operational costs while also simplifying upgrades and service expansion,†Felts adds.
Muse On Demand can ingest multiple files, transform them into mezzanine files in various resolutions, check their quality automatically, then encrypt and package them just-in-time for each targeted network and device. The whole workflow is automated and designed to limit storage space and the need for re-encoding when a new format emerges.
