Overview
The most feature rich and flexible Channel in a Box solution available, provides broadcasters with a cost effective, reliable and scalable route to distributing anything from a single SD channel to multiple 1080p channels. ICE provides an ideal platform for entering the TV Everywhere world, supporting channel distribution via terrestrial networks, satellite, IPTV or delivery to mobile devices.
Unparalleled Flexibility
- FlexiCore architecture allows ICE to dynamically allocate functionality resources and reconfigure internal routing across all channels to meet operational requirements
Extensive feature set
- 2 DVE’s and 8 Keyers per channel mixer
- Routing and mixing
- SD and HD format conversion
- Audio processing
- Closed captions
Mission critical reliability
- Comprehensive resilience features including content validation, dual redundant power and mirrored playback, guard sources, RAID storage, Panoplay multi-site and multi-system synchronized redundancy
- Proven in real-world 24/7 broadcast environments.
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Benefits
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Channel-in-a-Box how it should be
At Snell we have focused on what a channel needs, not on ‘The Box’. We’ve concentrated on maximising flexibility and scalability, while keeping the cost of ownership realistic in an even tougher broadcast environment and we’ve built in the new and innovative systems to deliver an ultra-reliable solution.
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An enviable feature set
The vast majority of Channel-in-a-Box systems don’t address the true nature of ‘a channel’ and fail to deliver the breadth of functions required and address the various ways in which those functions are used. So when other Channels in other Boxes closed their lids, we carried on filling ours with more stuff - more functionality and flexibility.
Many other solutions stop with playout control linked to a multi-format video server, a caption generator and some simple graphics capability.
Snell’s ICE goes much further than this, adding DVE’s and Keyers, routing, mixing, audio processing, SD and HD format conversion, closed captioning and integration with over 500 3rd party devices.
Unique flexibility
ICE more accurately emulates a master control environment than any other Channel-in-a-Box solution; this is achieved through its unique FlexiCore technology. FlexiCore allows the resources in ICE to be dynamically allocated to channels based on requirements. Other products with fixed signal paths will inherently limit flexibility and may not be suitable for some applications. Flexicore virtualizes multiple “router” inputs and outputs with a constant and efinable latency, essential when mixing live content with pre-recorded content.
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You need reliability?
ICE is designed for real world broadcast playout environments. It delivers high quality, superior performance, and above all, reliable operation.
- Dual redundant power supplies
- RAID media storage
- Content pre-validation
- Mirrored playback
- Guard sources
- Panoplay multi-site synchronized redundancy
- n+1 redundancy
You need scalability?
ICE is the only Channel-in-a-Box system that can truly scale from a single channel to 100+ channels, while maintaining the same user interface. ICE adapts to your changing requirements. It enables you to bring new revenue-generating channels and services on-line quickly, without disrupting your operations.
Whether you operate a single channel or work in a complex multi-channel playout environment, ICE is designed to accommodate your current requirements, and provide scalability for the future.
Prevention is better than cure
Our wealth of experience in being a broadcast equipment manufacturer has shown us that with content being delivered from numerous sources in file based workflows, many problems can be introduced. ICE Content Validation eliminates these by checking source material as soon as it is available using ICE software decoder technology to ensure that bad files are quarantined before they can go to air and operators are alerted to any problems found so that they can fix them way before material is required for going to air.
Technical Spec.
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