Examples of headend calculation

The examples will be from Russian practice
but the approach used works all around the world

In this article, we’ll review 2 common cases when your company needs to deploy its own headend.

1. You are a telecom provider and you want to provide TV services to your subscribers. As an option – as OTT operator.

You are going to broadcast:

• Two multiplexes of federal channels. This is a mandatory condition under the laws in force. And preferably a regional version of your subscribers with local advertising and program blocks. Usually, such channels are provided by a local branch of RTRS using direct IP connection in UDP MPTS format.
• Satellite channels. Technically, we need to receive TV channels from a broadcast of main satellite providers such as NTV+, Trikolor, etc… but right holders rarely synchronize with each other, so it will be necessary to collect the channels from different satellites, often taking only a couple of channels from a transponder, although there may be up to 20 on it. Let's take, for example, that the required 60 channels are located on 15 transponders.

about what such a transponder read in the article "Receiving satellite signal. Common pitfalls."

• Some TV channel providers kindly give an opportunity to take their channels from the Internet in various formats.
• Streams of local TV channels can usually be obtained directly from the studio via IP or HD-SDI
• A rare provider manages to create its own TV channel with information for subscribers, advertisements, announcements of broadcasts and so on.

2. II. You are a hotel owner

Television for the hotel ages ago has become not only one of the whims of the guests, but a way to improve the quality of service and profit. Therefore, the diversity of channels necessarily in several languages is considered as a good tone.

So, most likely, you plan to broadcast:

• Two multiplexes of federal channels that can be received on a regular terrestrial antenna and doesn’t require to conclude an agreement with the RTRS.
• TV channels of the satellite operator For example, we will calculate that you need 100 channels and they are located on 14 transponders.
• Foreign channels are the most difficult moment. Some channels can be obtained from open Internet broadcasting or in an open form from the satellite, but if the required channels are encrypted, then you need to use the original STB receiver of the selected satellite operator (or several) and encode the signal before the broadcast.
• Own advertising channel, and maybe not one. For example, separate channels for advertising for different zones – restaurant, SPA, etc...

For both cases in order to solve these problems, you need:

1. NetUP Streamer 8x - 2 pieces for receiving up to 16 satellite transponders, as well as TV channels from the broadcasting center RTRS or the Internet. NetUP Streamer headends in addition to receiving the signal from the antennas also allow receiving channels from IP-operators in various formats from UDP to HLS, including encrypted. Therefore, you do not need additional equipment to relay such channels. As a saving, you can also replace two NetUP Streamer 8x with one NetUP Streamer 16x.
2. NetUP Streamer HD SDI designed for receiving HD-SDI signal from studios, encoding in MPEG-4 and further broadcasting. This model is produced in 4 and 8 channel version - depending on how many channels you need to process.
   OR
   NetUP Streamer HDMI for encoding streams from satellite receivers via HDMI. The model is available in versions for 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24 inputs.
3. NetUP MyTV module software that allows you to upload videos to the server, transcode them if necessary, compose playlists and broadcast them into the network as a separate channel. This software can be installed on the NetUP Streamer headend or on a separate server.

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