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September 10, 2008
Telestream Adopts Ambric for Pipeline HD Dual Real-time Ingest-encode Device
Ambric's Am2045 Device and aDesigner Development Tool Suite Enables Telestream to Achieve Real-time Performance and Get to Market in a Third of the Time
Beaverton, Ore. — September 10, 2008 — Ambric®, Inc., announced that Telestream is deploying its new Pipeline™ HD Dual product with Ambric's Am2045™ Massively Parallel Processing Array (MPPA) devices. Pipeline HD Dual encodes two 1080i high definition streams into Apple ProRes 422 format in real time, offering significantly faster encoding times, greater density, and more format flexibility over other solutions available today. In addition to ProRes 422, Pipeline HD Dual is able to encode AVC-Intra, DNxHD/VC-3, DVCPRO HD, DV, IMX, and MPEG-2 formats, by utilizing the inherent programmability of the Ambric devices. These and other codecs are available as part of Ambric's Rapid Media Processing™ (RMP™) platform. Both companies will be demonstrating their products at IBC in Amsterdam from September 12th through September 16th: Ambric in Hall 7, Booth J41 and Telestream in Hall 7, Booth C19.
The TeraOPS-class Am2045 MPPA devices were chosen by Telestream in lieu of alternative solutions to meet aggressive time-to-market requirements and HD performance needs. "Using the RMP platform, we were able to develop three real-time codecs with two engineers in six months - more than three times faster than we would have achieved using FPGAs or DSPs," said Shawn Carnahan, CTO, Telestream.
The Am2045 MPPA powering the new Pipeline Dual HD product has enabled multi-format encoding on a single device. The highly scalable, massively parallel processors on Ambric's family of devices give customers a unique capability to radically increase their channel density.
"That the Telestream design reached production in such a short timeframe is a testament to our ability to get customers to market quickly while they still meet or exceed their performance requirements," said Joe Herbst, VP of marketing, Ambric.
About Telestream
Telestream products make it possible to get video content to any audience regardless of how it is created, distributed, or viewed. Throughout the entire digital media lifecycle, from capture to viewing, for consumers through high-end professionals, Telestream products range from components and encoding applications to fully-automated workflow systems. Telestream enables users in a broad range of business environments to leverage the value of their video content. Telestream corporate headquarters are located in Nevada City, California and its team of video experts is located in France, Germany, Sweden, U.K. and U.S. The company is privately-held. Visit www.telestream.net and www.flip4mac.com for more information.
About Nethra
Nethra Imaging is a fabless semiconductor company focused on delivering imaging and video solutions for a wide range of applications in the broadcast, medical, surveillance and military markets. The company uses proprietary algorithms to build flexible, fully programmable image processors and related products. Located in Santa Clara, California, Nethra is privately-held and since its inception in 2003, has developed scalable image processing solutions for a variety of video and multimedia applications. For more information, visit www.nethra.us.com.
Nethra Imaging™ and the Nethra logo are trademarks of Nethra Imaging Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © Nethra Imaging Inc. 2009.
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Nethra Imaging, Inc.
Yatin Mody, 408.200.4873
Email: ymody@nethra.us.com
