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RelayCaster server appliances offer a turn-key solution that enables optimized transmission of IPTV streams. By using the RelayCaster Streaming Protocol (RSP), reliability and data rates of streaming live content in wireless networks or along lossy long distance links can be greatly improved. RelayCaster servers allow for building cost-effective Content Delivery Networks (CDN) using public Internet infrastructure.
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At the same time, RelayCaster servers can be used as powerful tool for performing various conversions between multicast and unicast networking. Being compatible with existing gateways, transcoders, conditional access systems, streaming servers, and set-top boxes, RelayCaster appliances can be seamlessly integrated into your existing infrastructure.
RelayCaster together with the RelayCaster Streaming Protocol is available as a 19-inch rack-mountable server appliance, or as a software-only version for easy installation on existing servers hosted in data centers.
In addition, interested parties are able to receive a demonstration version of a software client receiving RSP streams provided by a RelayCaster server over the Internet.
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Using RSP as streaming protocol between two RelayCaster servers allows for the optimized transmission of IPTV streams to remote company sites, data centers, or networks. Compared to streaming with UDP or RTP, RSP greatly reduces packet loss. Compared to content distribution with TCP or higher-level protocols such as FTP and HTTP, RSP offers much higher bandwidths for transmission of live content over lossy long distance links.
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RSP can also be employed as client-side protocol on wireless clients or set-top boxes.
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A pair of RelayCaster servers can be used to transparently convert between multicast and unicast. This allows for ‘bridging’ network segments that do not support multicast.
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Today's commodity devices and infrastructures for wireless networks often do not support IPTV multicast. RelayCaster appliances overcome these limitations by transparently recasting IPTV multicast streams available in the wired network to unicast streams for wireless clients.
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Application areas
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Optimized IPTV streaming for lossy long-distance links in Content Delivery Networks (CDN) |
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Optimized IPTV streaming to clients in lossy wireless networks |
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Multicast-unicast-multicast bridging for IPTV |
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Multicast to unicast conversion for wireless IPTV networks |
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