| The ActiveVideo Platform supports the entire application lifecycle from content creation and distribution through deployment and real-time operation and monitoring.
The ActiveVideo Platform consists of three logical subsystems:
ActiveVideo Editor
The ActiveVideo Editor (AVE™) is a software application that helps designers create interactive programming including broadcast feeds, audio, video, animations, links, application logic and execution controls. The WYSIWIG drag-and-drop interface allows designers who are familiar with programs such as Dreamweaver to work quickly and efficiently, while repurposing Web-based assets. ActiveVideo Programming uses markup and scripting languages based on current Web standards, so integration with Web-media and application servers provides virtually limitless possibilities.
ActiveVideo Client
Only minimal support is required from the set-top client. To support ActiveVideo navigation, the set-top client must send the compass and number keys upstream in addition to the VOD “trick-mode” keys. VOD clients generally require only simple modifications or ActiveVideo Networks can provide an ActiveVideo client to support new integrations. In many cases, the network operator can replace more resource expensive set-top resident applications with ActiveVideo programming, resulting in a net gain of available set-top box resources.
ActiveVideo Distribution Network
The AVDN, spans from programmers to ActiveVideo Operations Centers to network operator access networks. The AVDN facilitates the adaptation of existing Web content; the secure pre-loading as well as demand-driven propagation of content; and the provisioning of resources and real time delivery of content through the access network to the consumer. The AVDN is optimized to rapidly deliver ActiveVideo programming and perform any necessary edge transformations to guarantee the quality that television viewers expect.
There are four major functions of the AVDN:
- Content Ingest and Transcoding
- Content Distribution and Management
- ActiveVideo Stream Creation and Television Distribution
- System Monitoring and Usage Reporting
ActiveVideo programming is fresh and appears nearly instantaneous to the user on television, as broadband video content does on the Web. Content management is a critical part of the platform and is designed to keep application capabilities and operational readiness at the highest levels.
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