Shipping News: July 2008

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Packet Ship Professional Services launched

9th June 2008: Packet Ship today launched its Professional Services offering, PSPS, providing a range of design and bespoke development services. PSPS builds on Packet Ship's in-house product development expertise and provides a fast route to market for digital media innovators.

Paul Clark, MD of Packet Ship, said, "we are keen to help our partners and customers get their innovative digital media products and services to market quickly and successfully. PSPS now offers a way to build on our many years of in-house development expertise and powerful software infrastructure to create exciting new opportunities".

For more information, read about Packet Ship Professional Services.

Packet Ship Streamline 2.2 "Corunna" released

27th March 2008: Packet Ship today announced the release of the Packet Ship Streamline v2.2 video server, codenamed "Corunna".

This release adds support for RTP and trickplay in H.264, along with a significant performance improvement when serving large numbers of streams. It also provides a number of features for compatibility with VLC-based clients. In addition, it provides integration with the Gridline content management and distribution system.

For more information, please contact us.

New product: Packet Ship Gridline content management and delivery system

18th January 2008: Packet Ship today announced the release of Packet Ship Gridline, a distributed content management and delivery system which is fully integrated with the Packet Ship Streamline video server.

Gridline provides a central content management system allowing creation of complex hierarchical structures of any type of content, optimised for large media files. This content can then be distributed efficiently to large numbers of edge caches, either on local servers or to individual PCs, using a combination of unicast and peer-to-peer (P2P) delivery. The Gridline core server and edge caches also provide high-performance XML-based integration interfaces making it easy to create service user interfaces to navigate through and display content.

Gridline can be used to create:

For more information on Gridline, please contact us.

Exterity powers new VOD server with Packet Ship software.

3rd September 2007: IPTV specialist Exterity has chosen Packet Ship's Streamline video server software to power their new avediaServer video-on-demand product. The avediaServer complements Exterity's IPTV gateway and receiver products to provide a complete IPTV/VOD solution.

Paul Clark, Managing Director of Packet Ship, said "we are delighted that Exterity can now offer this additional option for those customers that prefer an out-of-the-box solution".

For more information on the Exterity product line, please see the Exterity website.

New product: Packet Ship Sightline display controller

1st May 2007: Packet Ship today announced the release of Packet Ship Sightline, a display control system for large-scale digital signage deployments.

The first release of Sightline is targeted at the Philips NetX display control card, enabling full control of large numbers of TVs and playback of digital IPTV content through an integrated display solution. Packet Ship has been working closely with Airwave, Western and Philips to deliver a full digital signage solution using the Sightline controller for the new O2 Arena in London.

The display controller is able to control all standard TV functions, such as power on/off, volume and brightness, plus instruct the NetX cards to connect to particular IPTV channels or start particular on-demand streams from the Packet Ship Streamline video server. Displays can be grouped in multiple different ways, and presets applied either manually through an operator console or on a pre-scheduled basis. The controller also automatically discovers, upgrades if necessary, and continuously monitors all the displays on the network.

For more information on Sightline, please contact us.

Packet Ship Streamline 2.1 released

1st Nov 2006: Packet Ship today announced the release of Packet Ship Streamline v2.1.

This release adds full visual trickplay and clustering functionality, along with numerous features to enable easy integration with existing set-top box clients and business systems.

Packet Ship and Western in strategic partnership for hospitality

12th June 2005: Packet Ship and Western have announced their strategic partnership to bring video-on-demand capabilities to the UK hotel market.

Western is a leading provider of hospitality technology in the UK, and Western's SpeedWay Connect broadband product is already a market leader in the area. Packet Ship's video server technology will allow Western to extend their offering to include high-quality VOD under the SpeedWay TV brand.