Equator Announces New Broadband Video-on-Demand Platform

Reprinted from an Equator press release:

CAMPBELL, Calif. - Jan. 22, 2002 - Equator Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of video processing engines and platforms, today announced the availability of its new Broadband Video-on-Demand (VOD) Reference Platform for low bit-rate VOD systems that provide Internet access and content security. Powered by Equator’s MAP-BSPTM family of chips, the reference platform will enable a new breed of low cost IP-based VOD systems that delivers unmatched video processing performance at the customer premise. The platform fundamentally lowers the cost of delivering the highest quality VOD services for OEMs, broadband operators and service providers alike. By providing a complete hardware and software reference design, the platform enables developers to achieve the fastest volume deployment at the industry’s most competitive price/performance point. The Bill of Materials (BOM) cost for this hardware reference design starts below $200.

At the heart of this platform, the MAP-BSP chip is capable of performing up to 40 GOPS (Billion Operations Per Second), making it the most powerful video processing platform of its kind on the market today. The platform derives its flexibility from a software architecture that is open, modular, and extensible. Through its well-defined interface, developers can take advantage of the most advanced codec technology available by selecting their software codecs of choice to implement the desired feature sets.