Socionext, Advantech partner on transcoding
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Michelle Clancy
| 01 September 2017

Socionext and Advantech are partnering to provide live hardware transcoding solutions for the data centre, supporting MPEG2, AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265).

Socionext’s real-time dense transcode solution, also known as the Media Cloud, enables advanced HEVC compression technology and real-time transcoding capabilities for OTT applications. Socionext’s extended partnership with Advantech includes the integration of Socionext’s Media Cloud technology into Advantech’s VEGA 7000 family of accelerated video processing servers.

“We are seeing an increasing need to lower the cost of ownership by media, telecom and Internet companies that are seeking to address the ever-increasing mass consumption of streaming high-quality video,” said David Lin, VP of video solutions at Advantech. “Socionext, as our valued partner, is able to solve the power, density and performance technical design requirements we are looking for in order for us to develop a cost-competitive, highly-efficient transcoding solution with adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming capabilities for live cloud media service providers.”

“Advantech offers decades of expertise in complex hardware and software system integration and design services,” added Yasuhiro Wakimoto, VP of the enterprise solution business unit at Socionext. “Socionext and Advantech have a long history together providing solutions for live transcode broadcasting and processing large volume of media data for video systems. This partnership further extends the close relationship.”