A team-up between ActiveVideo and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) promises to increases in the scalability and efficiency of cloud-based virtual set-top box solutions for TV guides, online video and interactive advertising.
The combination of ActiveVideo CloudTV's MPEG stitching technology and Intel Quick Sync Video takes advantage of additional graphics processing (GPU) in the form of both Intel's Iris Pro Graphics and the Intel Media Server Studio. When compared to existing off-the-shelf servers, CloudTV running on new high-density servers with Intel QSV can deliver a 40% improvement in per session price performance, ActiveVideo says.
ActiveVideo claims a greater than 4X increase in number of CloudTV sessions density, requiring one data center rack to deliver cloud based pay TV guides to 1 million subscribers, and a greater than 10X increase in real-time video transcoding sessions to adapt premium online video content to pay TV subscribers. The result is a data center capex profile as low as $1 per sub, ActiveVideo says.