Do you need to...
- get support for decision making for launching mobile TV?
- demonstrate mobile TV services to your business partners?
- develop and test mobile TV services without a risk of disrupting production network?
- roll out interactive mobile TV services?
You need to
have a cost-effective solution for running end-to-end mobile TV tests and demos, Sofia Backstage® Starter Kit for DVB-H.
Overview
Sofia Backstage® Starter Kit for DVB-H offers operators and service providers a single box platform to test, demonstrate and trial mobile TV and interactive services in a very simple way. The Starter Kit platform is a complete end-to-end system including all necessary hardware, software and service examples with content authoring and management system to create a DVB-H broadcast signal. It’s especially targeted for interactive content use with DVB-H terminals.
Interactive services are created and managed with Sofia Backstage® for DVB-H software suite which is included in the Starter Kit. Content creation is easy with de facto Internet technologies. Service examples include SMS, MMS, Voice call, email and http-link interactions. Solution includes also filecasting functionality with included Java-based interactive service examples. It supports both broadcast delivery and interactive channel allowing content to be distributed simultaneously on the broadcast and on cellular network. Interactive services hosted in Sofia Backstage® are packaged into filecast streams, combined with AV content by the internal DVB-H head-end and transmitted to nearby devices with a mini RF transmitter – all with one box.
Interactivity is a key factor in the successful business in mobile TV. Required return-channel for interactions - mobile Internet - is already in place in the mobile device. Consumer experience can be controlled in creative ways with interactivity and it integrates the world of broadcast content with on-demand services. This enables compelling new applications that will increase the operators ARPU. DVB-H is the leading technology for bringing the broadcast TV to handheld devices. Open standards and broad industry support are contributing to fast adoption of DVB-H across the world.
Key Benefits
- Discover the full potential of interactive mobile TV
- Complete end-to-end solution, including server and client-side software components
- Compatible with industry leading DVB-H solutions
Key Features
- Mobile TV interactive service management system
- DVB-H output with ready to use RF signal
- ESG management and EPG generation,
with OMA BCAST and Nokia OAI - Integrated IP encapsulator with time slicing and
MPE FEC - Build-in FLUTE filecast carousel generator
- AV encoding with live video input
- Generation of necessary MPEG-2 TS tables
- Java MIDP client for interactive content
- Interactive portals based to Web links
- Interfaces for both broadcast and
Internet networks - Web-based management console
- Support for IPv4 and IPv6 including IPv4 to IPv6
conversion
System Management
- User rights management
- Calendar based event scheduling
- Remote management over a web GUI
- Interactive content library with examples
- RF output parameter settings including frequency, modulation parameters and bitrates
Hardware Platform
- Standard PC hardware + PCI output card
- RAID mirrored hard drives
- Nokia N92/N77 DVB-H terminals (option)
- Integrated Ethernet controller, RJ-45
- Case size (w/h/d): 27 x 22 x 43 cm
- Optional 19” rack-mount server
- Modulated DVB-H RF output
- S-video and composite video input
- IP multicast input for multiplexer
- Transport stream file output and input
- DVB-ASI output as secondary output
- Nokia MBS 3.x integration (option)
Hardware configuration and product features may change without notice