Ericsson Tackles Multiscreen TVEricsson Tackles Multiscreen TV

STOCKHOLM -- As the industry increasingly embraces the opportunity to satisfy consumer demand for TV content on any device, anywhere, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has announced the launch of an additional, critical enabler for the success of Multi-screen TV.

The solution, launched at IBC 2011, Amsterdam, September 9-13 (booth 1.D61), combines hardware and software to provide the most powerful and flexible approach to the growing multi-screen market. TV service providers and content owners are becoming aware of the scale of the processing capabilities needed to deliver their entire channel line-up to multi-screen devices to meet high customer interest.

Ericsson’s solution critically enables the massive expansion in processing needed to deliver a multi-screen offering. It offers unmatched levels of density, scalability and cost effectiveness, changing the landscape for linear multi-screen TV processing.

The Ericsson solution enables high quality and cost effective processing of hundreds of channels into thousands of adaptive streaming profiles. The Ericsson SPR1200 Multiscreen Stream Processor, a true hardware approach to Multi-screen compression, is combined with the Ericsson NPR1200 Multiscreen Network Processor, a dense software-based adaptive streaming segmentation and encryption processor, designed to track dynamic updates in adaptive streaming formats and DRM systems associated with the needs of delivery to different types of devices, as well as supporting an array of deployment architectures and formats.

Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC)