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Lucent Digital Video Unveils Comprehensive Video Networking Strategy and Products

Strategic Insights

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Lucent Digital Video, a venture of Lucent Technologies, announced a comprehensive video networking strategy that offers the professional video industry's broadest and most robust line of solutions for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), and Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This strategy integrates Lucent's industry-leading VideoStar(TM) MPEG-2 encoder products and LINKRunner(TM) video gateway products with the company's optical networking and ATM networking products, including the Ascend GX 550, CBX 500, and Cajun M770 switches, and the VIA 188 codec originally developed and marketed by AG Communications Systems.

Key Takeaways:

  • Lucent Digital Video's video networking strategy offers solutions for ATM, SONET, and IP networks, providing the professional video industry with the broadest and most robust line of solutions.
  • The company's industry-leading VideoStar(TM) MPEG-2 encoder products and LINKRunner(TM) video gateway products will be integrated with Lucent's optical networking and ATM networking products.
  • Lucent Digital Video's product line includes the Ascend GX 550, CBX 500, and Cajun M770 switches, and the VIA 188 codec from AG Communications Systems.
  • The company's strategy aims to deliver a full line of solutions for customer's video networking needs, from point-to-multipoint across local and wide-area networks.
  • Lucent Digital Video is the leading supplier of MPEG-2 encoders to the North American broadcast industry, through its strategic alliance with Harris Corporation, and is a leader in MPEG-2 transport over ATM.
  • The company has already installed the world's first optical MPEG-2 networks in China's Zhejiang province and is now the leader in the China digital video market.
  • Lucent Digital Video's product line is used by broadcast, cable, satellite, and enterprise customers to encode, decode, store, and transport video for a wide range of applications.

Statistics:

  • Lucent Digital Video has shipped the first LINKRunner TXA video gateway product, which enables carriers to transmit broadband video over ATM networks.
  • The LINKRunner TXA product supports remote control of equipment through a single network connection and can transport pre-programmed video from one point to multiple head ends.
  • The product has an MPEG-2 interface and is factory-configured for interfaces such as DVB/ASI and OC-3.
  • Other products in the LINKRunner line include LINKRunner VIP, which transmits broadcast-quality, real-time video over a high-speed IP network, and LINKRunner RMX, a re-multiplexing solution for cable operators and traditional broadcasters.
  • Potential markets for the LINKRunner TXA and RMX include cable operators, direct broadcast satellite providers, and traditional broadcasters sending multi-channel video programming.
  • Applications for the LINKRunner VIP include high-end desktop videoconferencing within a corporate environment, surveillance applications, and global Internet Service Providers (ISPs) distributing IP video over the Internet.

Sources:

  • Business Wire, "Lucent Digital Video Unveils Comprehensive Video Networking Strategy and Products" (October 4, 1999)
  • Lucent Digital Video Web site (www.lucent.com/ldv)
  • Lucent Technologies Web site (www.lucent.com)
  • Harris Corporation Web site (www.harris.com)
  • AG Communications Systems Web site (www.agcom.com)

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