LINKING YOU TO THE WORLDDIGITAL COMM LINK
Revolutionizing Live Video Transport
DIGICASTER® PLATFORMFeature rich video transmission
managed platform designed to
deliver flawless live broadcast
video over business class internet.
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SHORT HISTORY DIGICASTER®
• Low latency• Flawless live broadcast video• Feature rich UI• Delivered over cost effective Business Class Internet circuits
• Fox News• CNN• Feature Story News (FSN)• The Blaze (GBTV)• One America News Network (OANN)• Newsmax• Vyvx®
• VISTA Worldlink• Encompass Digital Media
DIGICASTER® is our broadcast quality live video transport platform. The Platform is designed to deliver high quality SD and HD video transport with extremely low latency over less expensive Business Class Internet circuits.
REVOLUTIONIZING LIVE VIDEO TRANSPORT
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Digital Comm Link, Inc (DCL) was incorporated in June 1995 with the key focus on providing superior products and services more cost effectively to the Television Broadcast industry.
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Digital Comm Link has been providing broadcast quality live video transport to the major networks, both domestically and internationally, since 1995. Throughout the state of Florida we have built a vast private network allowing our multiple studio locations direct connection back to our core facility, with access to our Teleport / Earth Station and to major video switches such as Vyvx®. Via this network, we deliver thousands of hours of video transport annually. In today’s tough economic times, we are all looking for ways to cut cost while still delivering superior products and services. As such, we embarked on a journey to find a more cost effective delivery mechanism to provide our video transport services to our clientele. This spurred a massive research and development initiative focused on more cost effective alternatives for quality live broadcast video transport. The result of this initiative produced the birth of
DCL’s DIGICASTER® Platform. The Platform has been designed to operate over less expensive Business Class Internet circuits, while still delivering high quality SD and HD video transport with low latency.
This design can mean huge savings to businesses that currently have large monthly recurring local loop charges for circuits connecting to the major video switches.
In a nutshell, the DIGICASTER® is a low latency SD/HD broadcast quality live video transport VPN appliance with the ability to provide simultaneous bi-directional video transmission. The Platform provides a fully managed, cloud based environment for video transmission that is managed by DCL’s proprietary web based scheduling system. Through the Platform’s scheduling system, our clients can deliver video content instantaneously, either domestically or internationally, 24 hours a days, 7 days a week. Once you are on our Platform, you have connectivity to DCL’s fully licensed, full arc Earth Station. DCL is a Vyvx® First Video Affiliate with 32 ports. We have integrated our Vyvx® ports into our Platform making an array of SD, HD and ASI ports available for use. In addition, you can also be connected point-to-point to any other node residing within our network. As part of our Managed Service, we monitor all client circuit connections around the clock to insure your circuit is functional when needed.
THE DIGICASTER® IS AN SSL VPN IP CLOUD-BASED PLATFORM THAT DELIVERS BI-DIRECTIONAL H.264 & MPEG STREAMS. IT IS CURRENTLY IN USE AT MAJOR TELEVISION NETWORKS SUCH AS FOX NEWS, FOX BUSINESS, CNN, FEATURE STORY NEWS (FSN), THE BLAZE TV (GBTV), ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK (OANN), NEWSMAX, AND MANY
DIGICASTER® is revolutionizing
live video transport
HOW WE CAN HELP YOU? CALL US (954) 236-2993 OR EMAIL US [email protected] Us to learn how the DIGICASTER® Platform can help your business.
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• Virtual Teleport• Direct access to DCL’s Vyvx inventory of SD, HD and ASI ports• Web based scheduling portal• Supports 16 channels of audio• Supports up to a maximum of four Encoders via onboard and / or external encoders• Supports up to a maximum of eight Decoders via onboard and / or external Decoders
DIGICASTER® Features
• Dynamic Packet Recovery Technology• DVB compliant appliances• 24/7 NOC monitoring• SDI, ASI and IP I/O bi-directional H.264 encoding and decoding• Low latency video transmission• Robust VPN tunneling and encryption• Direct CDN publishing
WHY DIGICASTER® IS THE NUMBER ONE CHOICE FOR MAJOR NETWORKS AND MAJOR VIDEO SWITCH POINTS
CUTTING-EDGEEASY TO USE
RELIABLE
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KEY FEATURES
THE DIGICASTER® WAY
DCL’s DIGICASTER® Platform has been designed to operate over less expensive Business Class Internet circuits, while still delivering high quality HD and SD video transport with low latency. This design can mean huge savings to businesses that currently have large monthly recurring local loop charges for circuits connecting to the major video switches.
The DIGICASTER® is a low latency SD/HD broadcast quality live video transport VPN appliance with the ability to provide simultaneous bi-directional video transmission. The Platform provides a fully managed, cloud based environment for video transmission that is managed by DCL’s proprietary web based scheduling system.
Through the Platform’s scheduling system, our clients can deliver video content instantaneously, either domestically or internationally, 24 hours a days, 7 days a week.
Once you are on our Platform, you have connectivity to DCL’s fully licensed, full arc Earth Station. DCL is a Vyvx® First Video Affiliate with 32 ports. We have integrated our Vyvx® ports into our Platform making an array of SD, HD and ASI ports available for use. In addition, you can also be connected point-to-point to any other node residing within our network. As part of our Managed Service, we manage and monitor all client circuit connections around the clock to insure your circuit is functional when needed.
• Dynamic Packet Recovery Technology• DVB compliant appliances• 24/7 NOC monitoring• SDI, ASI and IP I/O bi-directional H.264 encoding and decoding• Low latency video transmission• Robust VPN tunneling and encryption• Direct CDN publishing
DIGICASTER® Benefits
The DIGICASTER® Platform’s scheduling system can deliver video content instantaneously, either domestically or internationally, 24 hours a days, 7 days a week.
HOW DIGICASTER® IS GOING TO HELP YOU IMPROVE YOUR LIVE VIDEO TRANSPORT EXPERIENCE
BENEFITS
• Works on Inexpensive Business Class Internet connections
• Real-time transmission monitoring and scheduling • Direct connectivity to DCL’s Satellite Earth Station, Vyvx®, or point-to-point to any node on the DIGICASTER® Platform
LOWER COSTS, LOW LATENCY AND HIGH QUALITY
24/7
DIGICASTER®
DIGICASTER® Features Encoder/Decoder Features:• Low latency (less than 300ms SDI in to SDI out) UDP at 1 to 15 Mbps at any GOP Size, frame rate, refresh rate, or aspect ratio.• Supports H.264 High Profile @ Level 4.0 (HP@L4).• Supports both HD and SD H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoding with auto detection and virtual stream replication.• Supports 1080i, 720p, 480i.• Audio Input: SDI Embedded, AC3 Embedded, or AES/EBU.• Audio Input Format: AAC, Ogg Vorbis, optional MP3, optional MPEG-1 Layer II, or optional “SurCode for Dolby Digital” AC-3.• Audio Channels: up to 16 Channels.• Configure and operate via Remote GUI and management platform. IP Input Features:• Input multiple simultaneous IP streams through GigE.• Supports 1080i, 1080p, 720p, 480i, 480p, CIF, QCIF, qHD, H.264up, transcoding and custom resolutions also supported.• Supports H.264 High Profile @ Level 4.0 (HP@L4). MPEG-4 AVC Mpeg 2 encoding and VC-1.• Multiple WAN and LAN transport capable. IP Output Features:• Output multiple simultaneous IP streams through GigE.• IP Output protocols: HTTP Live (HLS), HTTP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, multicast and unicast with transport stream envelope, HTTP Smooth, HTTP Dynamic, FTP, RTMP (Open Flash), or WMV9 with HTTP/ASF. Can serve streams in RTMP protocol.• Multiple WAN and LAN transport capable. Transport Features:• Robust Dynamic Packet Recovery Technology with the ability to recover more than 10 times typical packet loss over cloud connections.• Delivers Layer 2 point-to-point performance over a cloud based connection.• Low latency UDP transport utilizing stream replication for input buffering.• Advanced configuring of Packet Recovery Initial Packet Retry Delay, Packet Retry Interval, and Packet Retry Amount.• Highly efficient peering and initializing multiple SSL VPN connections.
ENTERPRISE CHASSIS
PRO CHASSIS
• 3U rack mount appliance• Redundant hot-swappable 660 watt power supplies• Hot-swappable storage for video recording• Two 7” touchscreen monitors for configuration and stream monitoring• Designed for broadcast facilities and network head- ends that require a multitude of simultaneous inbound and outbound transmissions• Maximum supported onboard Encoders: 4 1
• Maximum supported external Encoders: 4 1
• Maximum supported onboard Decoders: 8 1
• Maximum supported external Decoders: 8 1 • Dimensions (WxDxH): 19” x 20” x 5.25” (3U)• Weight: 36.4 lbs.
• 1U rack mount appliance• Ideal for studio locations that do not require more than two simultaneous inbound or outbound paths• Maximum supported onboard Encoders: 2 1
• Maximum supported external Encoders: 4 1
• Maximum supported onboard Decoders: 4 1
• Maximum supported external Decoders: 8 1
• Dimensions (WxDxH): 19” x 10.625” x 1.75” (1U)• Weight: 11.2 lbs.
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1 EACH APPLIANCE CAN SUPPORT UP TO A MAXIMUM OF FOUR (4) ENCODERS WITH A COMBINATION OF ONBOARD AND EXTERNAL ENCODERS, AND A MAXIMUM OF EIGHT (8) DECO-DERS WITH A COMBINATION OF ONBOARD AND EXTERNAL DECODERS
MOBILE CHASSIS
LITE CHASSIS
• Comes with Pelican travel case• 7” touchscreen monitor for configuration and stream monitoring• Perfect solution for customers who need to transmit or receive video from a variety of locations• Maximum supported onboard Encoders: 2 1
• Maximum supported external Encoders: 4 1
• Maximum supported onboard Decoders: 4 1
• Maximum supported external Decoders: 8 1
• Dimensions (WxDxH): 8.3125” x 11.4375” x 6.625”• Weight: 9 lbs.
• 1U rack mountable appliance• Small Form Factor chassis• Cost effective alternative for customer who already own Encoders and/or Decoders• Maximum supported external Encoders: 4 1
• Maximum supported external Encoders: 4 1
• Maximum supported external Decoders: 8 1
• Maximum supported external Encoders: 4 1
• Dimensions (WxDxH): 11” x 10.625” x 1.75” (1U)• Weight: 8.2 lbs.
NOT SURE WHICH SOLUTION IS FOR YOU?
Call us now(954) 236-2993
Email [email protected]
1 EACH APPLIANCE CAN SUPPORT UP TO A MAXIMUM OF FOUR (4) ENCODERS WITH A COMBINATION OF ONBOARD AND EXTERNAL ENCODERS, AND A MAXIMUM OF EIGHT (8) DECO-DERS WITH A COMBINATION OF ONBOARD AND EXTERNAL DECODERS
DIGICASTER® SchedulerThe DIGICASTER® Scheduler is one of the core components of our DIGICASTER® Platform and is used to schedule, monitor and manage all video transport events. Via the feature rich, web based Scheduler portal, customers have the capability of managing their transport 24x7x365. The Scheduler handles the initiation and termination of all transport based upon scheduled events. This greatly simplifies the process for the user . . . all the user has to do is schedule an event and sit back and watch it happen.
The Scheduler has been developed with customer flexibility in mind. It partitions the end-user devices for customized access and security, while maintaining all user activity logs. User accounts can have either Read/Write permissions, or View Only permissions. Users with Read/Write permissions have the ability to schedule, modify and delete events.
View Only permissions are typically implemented for users who are responsible for monitoring events only and do not have the ability to manage events.
The Scheduler also provides detailed reporting capabilities allowing users to generate listings of scheduled, past or cancelled events for a given time period. We have also incorporated the ability to export these queries to Microsoft Excel format.
DIGICASTER® APPLICATIONS
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DIGITAL COMM LINK, INC.10450 W STATE ROAD 84
DAVIE, FLORIDA 33324-4206
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Revolutionizing Live Video Transport
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