Featuring the highest density available on the market, VITEC’s 4K/UHD/HD HEVC and H.264 IPTV 8-input blade offers real-time hardware encoding of 4K\UHD, high definition and standard definition video. MGES-7000 is best in class for flexibility, and with the increased density of blade-server configurations, it supports both HEVC (H.265) and H.264 codecs. This includes advanced features such as secondary channel, integrated resolution and frame-rate scaling, AES 256/128-bit encryption and low latency mode.
MGES-7000 is the ideal multichannel blade encoder for in-house broadcast applications, real-time high-quality sport events, low delay encrypted FMV distribution and any IPTV application. It’s a future proof encoder solution that meets the current IPTV demands of H.264 and HD encoding with the advanced capabilities of HEVC encoding, 4K\UHD and HDR. This allows for technological growth and supports market trends, including variety of video sources inputs such SDI, HDMI and SFP fiber connectors based on SMPTE2110.
The MGES-7000 offers best-in-class density with four 4Kp60 or 8 3G/HD/SD inputs ports for live sources of SDI, HDMI or IP (SMPTE2110) video. The blade uses hardware-based encoding chips supporting 4:2:2/4:2:0 10 and 8 bit H.264 and HEVC codecs for maximum flexibility and future proof solutions including secondary video streams up to 1080p60 for each input.
The MGES-7000 Blade’s advanced H.264 and HEVC tools make it flexible and suitable for a variety of markets that demand high quality IPTV distribution, low latency applications, and require support for legacy H.264 players as well as cutting edge new 4K HEVC end-points. This can all be managed with an easily configured web UI.
Coupled with the Media Gateway MGW family of carrier-grade IPTV platforms, IPTV providers can serve up to 208 IPTV channels from the MGW 5100 (10-RU), up to 96 IPTV channels from the MGW 1100 (4-RU) and up to 16 IPTV channels from the MGW 1100 (1-RU). VITEC’s Smoothing™ algorithm guarantees low jitter for flawless IP over any network - LAN and WAN. MGES-7000 is fully supported by the VITEC Cluster Manager (CM) System, which provides global system monitoring and control, as well as automated N+K redundancy to ensure high availability operation.
