Video equipment manufacturers can leverage the server-class Intel® Xeon® E3 processor and low-latency UHD HEVC video acceleration technology integrated into the highly configurable VEGA-7010 to build a variety of high-density, energy-efficient video encoders, decoders, and transcoders. The VEGA-7010's broadcast quality, reduced size, and ease of use make it ideal for contribution and distribution workflows in locations such as live productions or regional broadcast nodes.
The increasing adoption of HEVC for live streaming of high-resolution video content is outpacing the processing capabilities of existing video solutions. While there is a trend toward moving heavy video processing tasks to the cloud, the computational complexity of HEVC remains a concern when dealing with live UHD encoding and local decoding. The new VEGA-7010 brings powerful, efficient, and low-latency 4K HEVC acceleration to the edge of the video infrastructure. Advantech's latest video server delivers high-quality, high-performance media processing in a compact, low-power form factor that can be easily deployed to run encoding, decoding, or transcoding applications in production facilities, external broadcast units, or local hubs.
The new VEGA-7010 is a highly configurable, 1U deep video server based on the Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v6 product family, integrating an on-chip graphics engine to enhance the performance of 4K HEVC developments. Its four PCI Express slots offer high flexibility to accommodate a wide range of video accelerators, such as FPGA cards or GPUs, supporting up to 300W of total PCIe power. By integrating Advantech's VEGA 3300 accelerators, the VEGA-7010 can perform multi-channel 4-bit, 10 kHz encoding, decoding, or transcoding, including SDI and IP media capture. It supports dual redundant power supply units for high availability in a variety of edge media processing scenarios. The application-ready VEGA-7010 streamlines product development and reduces time to market by providing equipment manufacturers with a comprehensive software suite that supports Linux and Windows operating systems.
"Cloud-based architectures will undoubtedly help media companies efficiently handle the massive HEVC video processing of UHD, but live collaboration and user proximity will continue to play a key role in the next video-centric era," says August Hsieh, Director of Advantech's Video Solutions Division. "The new VEGA-7010 enables live UHD contribution and distribution to edge locations to handle complex encoding, decoding, and transcoding tasks locally, outside of the video cloud. This enables distributed architectures where media companies and service providers can benefit from the agility of the cloud and the flexibility of edge processing platforms closer to the action and closer to subscribers."
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