pvServer
pvNS' software solution for delivery of multimedia services – personalized music, video, live and near-live TV services combined with revenue-generating ad insertion applications to name a few

Reliable, Scalable, Low Total Cost of Ownership

• Lab and field-tested in numerous GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, CDMA 1X, EV-DO, as well as 802.11 and WiMAX networks.
• Engineering evaluated and successfully sold to the best telecommunications and media companies in the world including AIS, Aria, NTT DoCoMo, HP, Motorola, Mobilkom, NEC, New World Mobility, Orange, Siemens, Sony, T-Mobile, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, Westel, StarHub, SingTel, Movistar, Iusacell and more.
• Runs on highly reliable hardware: HP-UX, Sun Solaris, and Linux.
• Has been running in the world's longest running commercial mobile media service, launched by NTT DoCoMo in Japan on October 15, 2001.

• Whether servicing 10,000 or several million customers, pvServer’s flexible architecture and configuration allow for customized solution for environments with different scale, platforms, networks, applications, and business models.
• Enhanced performance and scalability of bottlenecks via cascading streaming modules and SW load balancing.
• Successfully launched by companies like Orange with 50 million subscribers as well as Westel in Hungary with 4 million subscribers.

• Software load balancing saves you money by eliminating the need for an expensive hardware switch.
• Well-known standard interfaces reduce your cost of integration so that you can customize the solution for your network and customers. Java, HTML, SOAP, JMX, and SNMP can all be used. No proprietary, confusing APIs to learn and maintain. (Or, ask our team of experts to customize it for you.)
• Flexible pricing, CAPEX- and OPEX-based, to meet the different needs of the carriers, content providers, etc., reduce financial risk and obtain the most cost-effective service deployments.

• Standards: 3GPP Rel 6 and 3GPP2 standards compatibility means wider content encoders and device reach – more choices in content and handsets for subscribers to choose from.
  
  
• Instant Access to Media via Fast Channel Switching (FCS): For best viewing experience, a short time-to-video at the beginning of a session and while switching sessions and/or clips is crucial. However, just as important the time-to-content is, so too is the technical complexity behind eliminating latency. pvNS' pvServer takes a comprehensive approach to address all these challenges with a number of advanced FCS features. The FCS features included in the latest release of pvServer significantly reduces the streaming startup time as well as clip/channel switching time while optimizing the network capacity.
  
  
• Bandwidth Optimization: With rich data services, the highly variable wireless channels can quickly degrade the quality of a video stream and the user experience. 3GPP-compliant network rate adaptation/BSS allows the best user experience even under this fluctuating network environment by adapting content and transmission rate to the available network resources. pvServer supports BSS for both on-demand and live content
  
  
• Optimized user experience for LIVE services: pvServer provides outstanding performance of difficult, real-time events, including TV broadcasts with features such as BSS Live, Live playlist, i-frame caching and burst streaming. pvServer is also compatible with the most cameras in the field as well as the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standard connections made by the new, cost-saving MPEG-4 cameras. More information on cameras <33 kb>
  
  
• Bandwidth Efficiency & Scalability via Multicast Sources Support: pvServer supports multicasting of live sources from encoder delivered to the pvServer, which reduces bandwidth requirements between encoders and the pvServer and enables scalability in live streaming.
  
  
• Less Wait Time via Progressive Download: Progressive Download, also known as pseudo-streaming, is a function that allows the user to start streaming a file while it is still downloading. It provides optimum video and audio reception without the long upfront delay experienced with simple-download-and-play. pvServer offers two kinds of progressive downloads.
  • FastTackTM
  • 3GPP Progressive Download
    
    
• Rich & Personalized Multimedia Experience via A/V Playlist: The pvServer supports server-side A/V playlist that is based on standard SMIL. The features include pause, skip, play, random positioning and continuous play. The A/V playlist brings value-add to the multimedia services enabling the creation of multimedia services such as personalized mobile radio, TV, ad insertion, etc. pvNS’ playlist is compatible with 3GPP-compliant mobile devices.
  
  
• High Audio & Video Quality: pvServer supports both live and on-demand delivery of all major file formats including AMR, AAC, QCELP, Enhanced aacPlus, MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264.
  
  
• Customized: pvServer's standards-based architecture allows you to easily tailor your service to your network and your demanding customers. You can customize the content management, system management, and DRM solution. You can even develop your own special players branded with your own logo for a truly unique offering that beats the competition. (Or, ask us to do it for you.)
  
  
• Quality: pvServer's patented quality features provide you with the best mobile multimedia user experience possible.
  • FastTrack Download™
• QoSTrack™
  
  
• Music: pvServer's special features created specifically for mobile music insure the best user experience for your teens and music lovers. Our playlist capability uses simple APIs which allow you to create an unlimited number of radio channels customized to your listeners. Using a special pvPlayer, you can allow your customers to create their own radio stations, changing their mobile phones into wireless radios. Read more here <16 kb>