TORONTO — Nextologies Ltd., a provider of end-to-end prodicyts for live digital video management and the HITC (Headend in the Cloud) live video delivery infrastructure, is rolling out a new live event video signal distribution company.
It’s being branded 10TX, and product demos are on tap for their booth (West Hall No. 2959) at the 2023 NAB Show.
For the first time, Nextologies is making available to its clients the Nextologies Control Panel (CP), the “intelligent operation system” it built, and recently updated, to control its entire live and/or file-based audio/video transport infrastructure.
CP controls everything within the Nextologies HITC infrastructure, which provides the backbone transport over any public or private network and includes the entire end-to-end suite of Nextologies’ capabilities, including encoding/transcoding/playout to delivery. Within CP, clients can access all of the different features that one could ever need in a broadcast environment all in one platform. CP enables total visibility of signals from origin to delivery, as well as the ability to analyze and troubleshoot those streams at any point along the way.
The broadcast/streaming world is in the midst of digital transformation, which will enable all kinds of expansion and growth, but which can also be expensive and complicated. CP is engineered to accelerate that transformation through flexibility.
CP can be deployed anywhere, installed on any server, and it controls everything on the Nextologies ecosystem. With CP and HITC, companies can manage their entire video management and delivery process with one single vendor, rather than the typical solution, which requires cobbling together solutions provided by a number of vendors with varying degrees of interoperability. Many of Nextologies’ clients, such as the Associated Press, prefer to let Nextologies manage the solution for them from end-to-end, including onboarding and troubleshooting, as well.
In addition to CP, Nextologies will be demonstrating a number of next generation capabilities, including
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Nielsen watermarking is now included within Nextologies’ broadcast encoders, enabling clients to deploy Neilsen without adding another device. The capability is also enabled on the Nextologies’ cloud playout system.
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Nextologies acquired the VCC (Video Call Center) in January 2023 and will be demonstrating its AirFirst and Caller Cloud capabilities, which log-free on-demand workflows (either DIY or managed by the Nextologies call producer team) for high-speed, high-volume control of live remote contributors anywhere in the world.
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NexToMeet, Nextologies’ instant web/mobile to SDI video network, which allows production teams to film interviews in any location with an iPhone or iPad webcam, has gotten an upgrade: NexToTalk, a communication system that can be embedded into any client’s portal or to be used within CP, which works on any digital device and create an instant, lightweight communication system, from end to end, to any user around the world that might need to be part of a production, eliminating the need for old school telephone bridges.
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The new Video Cloud Router, which makes it possible to seamlessly merge web video into broadcast workflows with a simple drag-and-drop in the cloud-based interface.
