Lucent Digital Video Announces Broad Strategy for Video Transport Over Multiple Networks
10/04/1999
Business Wire
(Copyright (c) 1999, Business Wire)
BRIDGEWATER, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999--
Incorporates Lucent Optical Networking Products and Ascend and
AG Communications Products for ATM, SONET, and IP Networks
Lucent Digital Video, a venture of Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), announced today a video networking strategy that offers the professional video industry's broadest, most robust line of solutions for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), and Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
Lucent's industry-leading VideoStar(TM) MPEG -2 encoder products and its LINKRunner(TM) video gateway products will be integrated with the company's optical networking and ATM networking products, including the Ascend GX 550, CBX 500 and Cajun M770 switches and the VIA 188 codec originally developed and marketed by AG Communications Systems. Lucent Digital Video will also incorporate Starvision Multimedia Corporation's DMF-4800(TM) video Multipoint Conferencing Unit (MCU) and gateway, and SCMS-2500(TM) managed service system into its line of video networking products.
Lucent Digital Video will demonstrate these products and solutions at the VidTranS '99 conference in Universal City, California on October 3-6.
"Networks of all types are expanding to accommodate growing video traffic, and no one else can offer the broad spectrum of ATM, optical, and IP video solutions that Lucent offers today," said Andreas Papanicolaou, president of Lucent Digital Video. "As more international video traffic moves into fiber and ATM applications, customers will demand greater flexibility and reliability in the transport of compressed and uncompressed video. We are poised to deliver a full line of solutions for customer's video networking needs, from point-to-multipoint across local and wide-area networks."
Lucent Digital Video's product line is used by broadcast, cable, satellite, and enterprise customers to encode, decode, store and transport video for a wide range of applications, including signal acquisition and playout-to-air. Lucent Digital Video is the leading supplier of MPEG -2 encoders to the North American broadcast industry, through its strategic alliance with Harris Corporation, and is a leader in MPEG -2 transport over ATM. In April, 1998, Lucent Digital Video, working with Lucent's Optical Networking Group, announced the installation of the world's first optical MPEG -2 networks, in China's Zhejiang province, and it is now the leader in the China digital video market.
Lucent Digital Video will also incorporate its VideoStar products into the Lucent OpticAir broadband wireless transport system, as well as local fiber optic carrier solutions.
LINKRunner
The LINKRunner video gateway product line enables carriers to transmit broadband video over ATM. Network providers can map up to four MPEG -2 transport streams across an ATM or point-to-point network. The LINKRunner TXA is a bi-directional device and supports remote control of equipment through a single network connection. The TXA transports pre-programmed video from one point to multiple head ends.
It is cost effective and flexible, supporting a variety of network interfaces. It has an MPEG -2 interface and is factory-configured for interfaces such as DVB/ASI (Digital Video Broadcast/ Asynchronous Serial Interface) and OC-3 (Optical Connect-3). LINKRunner TXA supports IP emulation and serial data communication for control of remote equipment.
The LINKRunner TXA is the first in Lucent's LINKRunner video gateway product line to begin shipping, beginning this month. Other products in the LINKRunner line include LINKRunner VIP, which transmits broadcast-quality, real-time video over a high-speed IP (Internet Protocol) network; and LINKRunner RMX, a re-multiplexing solution for cable operators, direct broadcast satellite providers, and traditional broadcasters with multichannel video sources who need to reassemble programming at the regional head-end.
Potential markets for the LINKRunner TXA and RMX include cable operators, direct broadcast satellite providers, and traditional broadcasters sending multi-channel video programming. Applications for the LINKRunner VIP are high-end desktop videoconferencing within a corporate environment, surveillance applications, and global Internet Service Providers (ISPs) distributing IP video over the Internet. The LINKRunner VIP will deliver real-time broadcast-quality video over 100 BaseT Ethernet networks, enabling distribution of video content over high-speed corporate local area networks (LANs).
The LINKRunner VIP is expected to begin shipping by the end of this year, and the LINKRunner RMX by the first quarter of next year.
VIA 188
The VIA 188 codec delivers high-quality two-way interactive video for applications including remote learning, telemedicine, videoconferencing and remote arraignment coverage. It is ideal for a number of customer applications and network environments. The VIA 188's system reliability has proven superior to products that rely on PC operating system software. ATM Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC) interoperability testing has been successful with 13 different ATM switch vendors, as well as Lucent's extensive line of ATM switching products.
Starvision
Starvision's SCMS-25000 allows managed service systems, such as multimedia conferencing and video trunking, to be delivered independent of underlying network and network access technologies. Starvision's DMF-4800 is multiprotocol video MCU and gateway which supports all major videoconferencing protocols. It integrates the VIA 188 MPEG -2 solution with other video and network technologies including H.320/H.321, H.323, Motion-JPEG legacy video, ISDN, and IP networks. The combination of the SCMS-25000, the DMF-4800 and the VIA 188 allows service providers to deploy managed video networking services such as distance learning and professional quality video transport over their broadband networks.
Lucent Digital Video is one of the world leaders in the MPEG -2 encoder market. Its flagship product, the Lucent VideoStar(TM) system, uses sophisticated proprietary compression algorithms for maximum picture quality and optimum bit rate efficiency.
Further product or sales information can be obtained from Lucent Digital Video by calling 877-497-2448 in the U.S. or, outside the United States, by calling +1-727-867-7736. E-mail may be sent to sales@ldv.lucent.com. Visit the Lucent Digital Video Web site at www.lucent.com/ldv.
Lucent Digital Video was founded as one of several new entrepreneurial business ventures formed by Lucent to help bring Bell Labs technologies to market. Leveraging decades of Bell Labs research and development, the group was formed to manufacture and market digital video products, including encoders. Today, Lucent Digital Video is part of Lucent's Broadband Networking Group. Lucent Digital Video markets its product line for cable, wireless cable, fiber optic and satellite back-haul, DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) and other applications worldwide.
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information, visit our Web site at www.lucent.com.
Contact: CONTACT: Chris Pfaff 908-582-7571 (office) 800-705-2368 (pager) cpfaff@lucent.com
09:39 EDT OCTOBER 4, 1999
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