Dilithium, announced the Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA), a high capacity and scalable solution that automates the real-time adaptation and delivery of video content over multiple networks to any device. Dilithium’s patented technologes perform real-time, on demand media conversion with minimal latency, avoiding the need for costly off-line transcoding. DCA enables service providers and content owners to deliver a superior customer experience, increase revenue streams, and attract and retain new customers with minimum capital investment.
The DCA includes a number of key features and benefits including:
- Real-time Media Transcoding: Conversion and delivery of streamed media (on-demand) as it is downloaded or streamed from the content source.
- Flexibility: Easily integrated with external platforms such as subscriber databases, billing systems and content management systems. Scripted applications allow control over the content to be played, target bitrates, frame sizes, codecs and file formats from a wide range of sources.
- Easy Integration: DCA uses the industry standard PHP as a common scripting language leveraging the wide range of standard interfaces to other systems. DCA supports a wide range of service and billing models, including dynamically generated content, subscription services and pay-per-view.
- Scalability: DCA can be scaled from small scale trial installations of tens of sessions through to distributed systems suitable for very large scale services through the use of service node clusters.
- Efficiency: Innovative caching facility means that content need only be transcoded once for a specific device or network and can be served to a large number of clients with minimal additional overhead.
- Reliability: A comprehensive management application allows all elements of the system to be monitored and configured and a wide range of performance statistics recovered.
With the growth of sophisticated phones like the iPhone, video sites such as YouTube and WiFi and 3G networks, consumers are increasingly downloading videos onto their phones. Analyst firm ARC estimates that the mobile online video market will generate worldwide revenue of $5 billion in 2008. Consequently, mobile and broadband service providers are faced with the pressure to provide dynamic, high-quality content to their subscriber’s over multiple networks, to any device.
Until today, service providers were unable to effectively deliver interactive, 2-way multimedia content to wireless and broadband devices The traditional process involves customized coding for each device and network type such as 2.5G, 3G, WiFi or WiMAX, which restricted real-time downloads and is resource intensive as it requires extensive human interaction and expensive capital investment in servers and storage.
The DCA changes all of that. Its unique patented audio and video technologies enable on-demand transcoding, transrating and transsizing of multimedia content, making content easier for operators and providers to deliver. The flexibility also allows for additional revenue streams such as targeted ad insertion.
“As multimedia content becomes more widely available and the diversity of devices continues to grow, traditional methods of delivery are no longer the only way to offer content,” said Michelle Abraham, principal analyst at In-Stat. “Consumer demand for content with low latency and high quality will drive service providers to find solutions that will easily offer quality content to their subscribers over multiple networks and devices.”
“Dilithium is committed to delivering high-quality multimedia services and applications across any network to any device,” said Paul Zuber, CEO of Dilithium. “The Dilithium Content Adaptor is an efficient and flexible solution to serve growing market demand for mobile multimedia content,”
Dilithium’s DCA is available as of May 12, 2008.