New VOD Products From Scientific Atlanta

Atlanta-based Scientific Atlanta recently announced that it has new video-on-demand (VOD) transport cards for the company's Prisma IP multiservice digital transport platform. The new card series promises to provide a low-cost solution for cable operators as they rollout VOD on their networks. The Prisma IP VOD cards s

Author:: TVTechnology
Updated:: Feb 23, 2018
Original:: Sep 10, 2003

Atlanta-based Scientific Atlanta recently announced that it has new video-on-demand (VOD) transport cards for the company's Prisma IP multiservice digital transport platform. The new card series promises to provide a low-cost solution for cable operators as they rollout VOD on their networks.

The Prisma IP VOD cards support several industry-standard formats, including Gigabit Ethernet, ASI and SDI. The Prisma IP multiservice digital transport platform lets cable operators provide a variety of video, data and telephone services to both commercial and residential customers; the new Prisma IP VOD cards increase the systems capability for VOD applications.

The new 10Gb/s VOD cards enable design optimization for small, medium and large networks.

TBS's Prisma IP network will be the first commercial deployment of Scientific-Atlanta's new SDI (Synchronous Digital Interface) line card.

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The 10Gb/s cards are available with widely tunable lasers.

Scientific-Atlanta has created the PowerVu Program Receiver to solve a problem cable programmers face in the expensive process of providing a new digital receiver to thousands of headends to replace the current analog signal. The PowerVu enables programmers to roll out digital services, increase the number of channels

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