Content

Zignal Server Technical Specifications

Zignal Server Platform

  • Java-compliant application server environment
  • Operating system independent, deploys to Windows Server, Unix, or Linux derivatives
  • Database independent
  • JAAS based security; LDAP integration is available as an option
  • WS-I compliant web services interfaces
  • SOAP based APIs
  • BPEL processes available to each event
  • Clustering structure
  • Fully scalable - with load balancing clustered cache and servers
  • Mixed network support
  • Multiple time zones
  • Message administrator interface for management UI
  • Multiple channel selection when creating TV packages
  • Advanced fine-grained multi level performance monitor
  • Multi-format EPG data support with automatic import
  • Carrier-grade server architecture

Media Formats

Video

  • MPEG-2
  • MPEG-4
  • H.264
  • Windows Media 9

Audio

  • MPEG-2 audio
  • MPEG-2 layer 3 (MP3)

Graphics

  • JPEG with progressive download
  • PNG with 8-bit alpha mask
  • GIF89a (animated)

Open Source Solutions

  • Java 5.0
  • JSON-RPC
  • log4j
  • Hibernate 3.2
  • XFire 1.2
  • Spring 1.4
  • WebWork 1.2
  • Wicket 1.3

Language support

English and Western European Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) scripts standard
Translations available for:

  • German
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Danish
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Icelandic

Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16), Cyrillic, Japanese (EUC, JIS, and Shift-JIS), Simplified Chinese (GB and HZ), Traditional Chinese (Big5), and Korean (UKSC) supported, depending on browser font pack
Arabic and Hebrew (including right-to-left) input

Television and display systems

  • PAL
  • NTSC
  • 16:9 widescreen and 4:3 standard aspect ratios
  • HDTV 720p and 1080i
  • Multiple display profiling for devices

Networking

  • HTTP over TCP
  • IPv4 and IPv6
  • DHCP or static addressing
  • PPP, PPPoE, and PPPoA-compatible
  • Mixed Network Support

Media Streaming

Multicast video with IGMP for television channels
  • Edgeware
  • BitBand
  • Kasenna MediaBase
  • nCube
  • Concurrent
  • EONA
  • InfoValue
  • Tandberg
  • SeaChange
  • Oracle
RTSP for VOD and trick-play

Metadata Display in User Interface

  • Movie title, rating, year, summary, and personnel
  • Television show title and series, rating, year, and summary

Conditional Access Systems

  • Widevine
  • Verimatrix
  • Other systems on demand

To top ^