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Xenon Platform

Mobile Content Delivery Platform

What is Xenon?
Xenon is an end-to-end content delivery and service enabling platform, delivering high quality audio and video content to a wide range of mobile devices. Xenon comprises a suite of components providing all the features necessary to deliver rich, interactive mobile services such as live TV and music applications. Xenon is based upon a flexible and modular architecture, and is available as a stand-alone solution customised to your requirements, as a turn-key white label solution or as a hosted service managed and supported by Vidiator.

Xenon Architecture
Xenon has a modular architecture as illustrated below (simplified), each module acting as a plug and play component in the system as a whole.

Xenon Components
Each Xenon component provides a unique function
in the platform: Xenon Streamer (XSS) Delivers live and VOD streams to mobile handsets. Refer to the XSS product sheet for a full description

Key Features
Stream live and VOD content in popular formats including H.264, MPEG-4, H.263, AMR, AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC (v.1 and v.2), and Windows Media Compatible with all 3GPP and 3GPP2-compliant handsets Dynamic Bit-rate Adaptation (DBA) optimizes stream quality on-the-fly Fast Channel Switching (FCS) enables fast, seamless switching between live channels Server-side playlists for advert insertion and music playlist streaming Bookmark streams (return to a saved point automatically) Encode live content from capture cards, file or IP input (Windows Media and IPTV) Works with standard DVB-H and Mobile TV broadcast equipment Overlay images and text onto videos in real-time Powerful and simple billing interfaces (SOAP / HTTP)

Xenon Proxy and Cache (XCP) Proxy and cache content from remote streaing servers. This enables content stored remotely to be delivered close to the network edge, and caching decreases the bandwidth requirements between the content provider and the operator Xenon Live Encoder (XLE) Encodes live feeds (capture card, file or IP input) into popular mobile formats such as H.264 and AAC, to be streamed to handsets using a server such as Xenon Streamer. Refer to the XLE product sheet for a full description

Xenon Components
Xenon Live Relay (XLR) Relays live content from remote XLE modules to multiple streaming servers. Can also relay RTSP streams from remote Darwin and Helix servers to a Xenon cluster Xenon Offline Encoder (XOE) Encodes file-based source content into mobile-ready VOD files to be downloaded or streamed. Refer to the XOE product sheet for a full description Xenon Admin Centre (XAC) Provides a single point of management for the entire Xenon Platform, per forming tasks such as system administration, configuration, monitoring and content generation Xenon Module Supervisor (XMS) Monitoring to ensure each module is running correctly Xenon Service Broker (XSB) A plug-in framework for integration with back-end systems such as authorization, billing, and a web portal. XSB provides some built-in service logic such as per-perview and subscription billing functions Xenon Windows Media (XWM) Delivers Windows Media streams from the Xenon Platform, so that a single system can deliver both standard 3GPP and Windows Media formats For a full range of configuration and licensing options, please contact a Vidiator sales representative for more information.

Why choose the Xenon?

Scalable and Flexible Xenon is extremely scalable and additional modules can be added very quickly. For example, when you need to deliver more concurrent streams simply add another server, and when more live channels are desired just add a new encoder module. The same modularity enables us to deliver tailored services and applications to meet your specific needs, for example Mobile Music, UGC, Mobile TV are available as stand-alone solutions or combined. Fault Tolerant Xenon has been designed from the ground up as a carrier-grade system that can deliver content seamlessly around the clock. Individual components have in-built fault tolerance, and the supporting platform components (such as Xenon Module Supervisor and Xenon Admin Centre) enhance this even further. Industry-standard protocols including SNMP enable integration into OSS monitoring systems. Simple Integration Xenon integration is kept simple by using an extensible plug-in framework (Xenon Service Broker) in addition to easy-to-use APIs that control advanced features such as Fast Channel Switching (refer to the Xenon Streamer product sheet). Support for both unicast and multicast enables you to deploy a single solution for cellular streaming and mobile TV broadcast respectively. Device and Network Independent Our technology is server oriented and enables rapid deployment across different wireless and wired networks and devices. Our unique DBA technology ensures that we deliver the best video quality across these networks in static and dynamic environments (e.g. roaming from UMTS to GPRS). Compatible with Standard Hardware Xenon components run on standard hardware and software platforms (such as Windows, Linux, and Solaris systems), Vidiator is committed to support the most reliable operating systems and hardware platforms on the market. Proven Deployments Vidiator has deployed Xenon systems to more than 30 operators and media companies in over 20 countries. Xenon delivers in excess of 1 million streams to more than 15 million 3G subscribers every day.

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