ATEME and Bull intensify cooperation

ATEME, a provider of MPEG-4 / H.264 and MPEG-2 bandwidth efficient video compression technology, and Bull, a European provider of computing systems, are broadening their cooperation to market ATEME video processing solutions on bullx blade systems.

Introduced by ATEME in 2009, TITAN is a scalable video processing platform that enables massively parallel content transcoding into multiple at a high degree of fidelity to the original source. It is built on bullx computing blades – up to 18 blades per 7U frame – an ultra-dense computing architecture optimized for large scale video processing.

TITAN is increasingly popular with content providers and already deployed to deliver linear channels, VoD or Catch-Up TV services to the TV sets, PCs, tablets and smartphones of more than 70 million subscribers worldwide.

Content owners and Pay TV Service providers that have deployed TITAN already experienced the density, performance and power efficiency of the bullx blade system. At the end of March 2012, new blades delivered will integrate the latest Intel Xeon Family E5-2600 chipsets (also known as Sandy Bridge) for further performance gains, with each blade transcoding multiple full HD linear channels, each into multiple profiles for instance.