Cable operators planning multi-screen strategies need three key features in an adaptive streaming transcoder: flexibility, density and, superior video quality. The ARRIS VIPr™ 4800 from offers unsurpassed flexibility with multiple MPEG4 bit rates and resolutions. It also outputs MPEG2 video transport streams to support traditional video delivery. In addition, the VIPr 4800 can either perform the video fragmentation and encapsulation function or deliver an MPEG4 transport stream to a downstream encapsulator.

The VIPr solution provides extremely high program density – up to 144 video streams per chassis – depending on output resolutions.– . The ARRIS “intelligent re-coding” process uses the MPEG parameters in the input video streams to make better encoding “bit allocation” decisions. This provides operators with the best video quality at the lowest possible bit rates.