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Envivio 4Caster C4 Transcoder/Encoder Powers Bouygues Telecom Mobile TV Service Operated by Cognacq-Jay Image - High-Performance, Carrier-Grade Video Headend Offers Superior Quality of Experience and Broad Handset Support for Delivery of Premium Services
South San Francisco, CA - November 17, 2009 - Envivio Inc. today announced that its 4Caster C4 video encoder is being used by Bouygues Telecom, one of France's largest mobile network operators with ten million subscribers, to encode video for its TV 3G+ mobile video service. The Bouygues Telecom video headend is hosted by Cognacq-Jay Image, the content management and delivery subsidiary of TDF. TV 3G+ provides subscribers with access to more than 60 channels in a variety of standard and premium packages.
When launching the new service in November 2008, Bouygues Telecom and Cognacq-Jay Image elected to replace their legacy software encoders with the 4Caster C4 hardware encoder configured for Mobile TV. The multi-profile 4Caster C4 enables the TV 3G+ service to be optimized for the 176 different handsets currently in use by Bouygues Telecom subscribers. This includes a QVGA resolution, 3.5G HSDPA profile to deliver premium video quality for subscribers with high end devices.
"4Caster C4 from Envivio has helped us by delivering the reliability and performance needed to provide a good quality of experience for the end user, as well as flexibility that is enabling our company to follow the fast-moving mobile market." said Thibaut Keraval in charge of Mobile Services Solutions in Bouygues Telecom.
"Upgrading the existing infrastructure to an up-to-date Envivio platform was an important decision in the development of TV 3G+," said David Karoutchi, Business Development Manager - Mobile & Broadband, Cognacq-Jay Image. "The 4Caster C4 provides a high reliability, high performance foundation that offers the superior service levels we were looking for in order to ensure the best experience for subscribers."
The award-winning Envivio 4Caster C4 simultaneously delivers four channels of video with up to 32 different Mobile TV profiles per system, providing an advanced compression platform for operators launching new services or upgrading early generation services based on software encoding platforms. The Bouygues Telecom deployment also includes the Envivio 4Manager headend management system, providing M:N automatic redundancy configuration for true carrier-grade service availability. This transforms mobile TV into a full-fledged service offering, based on a state-of-the-art professional headend infrastructure.
About Cognacq-Jay Image
Cognacq-Jay Image, a company of TDF Group, provides TV channels with industry-leading expertise in design, development and operation of broadcast control rooms related services including soundstages operation, post-production, digital archiving. Cognacq-Jay Image delivers multimedia services for VOD and live TV applications. Cognacq-Jay Image is a technical provider to editors and operators, offering personalized audiovisual programs able to facilitate the development of new services to broadband networks: Mobile, IPTV, Internet.
www.cognacqjayimage.com
About Envivio Inc.
Envivio Inc. is the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions for telcos and broadcasters. Envivio is the only company to offer convergence solutions supporting the "Three Screens" of consumer video - TVs, PCs and mobile phones - making IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD. Envivio solutions deliver industry leading AVC (H.264), AVS, and Windows Media Video (VC-1) compressed video quality at the lowest bit rate for mobile TV, Internet TV, IPTV, and broadcast applications. Service providers worldwide use Envivio solutions to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers the most compelling and highest quality video services anytime and anywhere. Visit www.envivio.com for more information.
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