Anystream Agility® 2G
The Standard in On-demand Video Production and Management
Now, more than ever, media companies have a great opportunity to drive additional revenue from online and on-demand syndication of video. However, this opportunity comes with great operational challenges, particularly as the number and diversity of outlets increase. Anystream Agility 2G (Agility2G) from Grab Networks was built to meet the demands of the rapidly changing video industry, and over the past decade it has become the preferred on-demand video production and management solution for more than 700 leading media companies.
Grab Networks continues to lead the market in innovation, and our newest solution, Agility 2G, offers even greater scale and flexibility to handle the ever-increasing demand for high-quality, high-volume throughput. Agility 2G provides the reliability you need to tackle the latest requirements in premium, on-the-spot production across multiple distribution outlets, and it integrates seamlessly with your existing systems, making it easy to deploy.
Produce & Publish From Any Video Source to Any Outlet
Agility 2G supports input from any production or post-production source (e.g., live, tape, file-based), and a greater range of ingestion and output formats than any other system available. Many input file formats are supported and standard output file formats include MPEG, H.264, Silverlight, Windows Media, MPEG-2 and Flash, as well as the following application-specific formats and workflows (See Table 1). Live input sources include analog, SDI and HD-SDI with discrete and embedded audio.
Application-Specific Formats and Workflows Supported by Agility 2G:
Input
- Apple ProRes (with VANC)
- Avid DNxHD (with VANC)
- DVCpro HD
- HD Broadcast with VANC extraction
- IP Ingest of MP2 and H.264 Transport Streams
- MPEG-2 Transport Streams
- XDcam HD
Output
- 3GPP
- Advanced 3GPP (Vidiator)
- Advanced H.264 IPTV (Ateme)
- Advanced VOD (Cinema Craft)
- Avid Transfer Manager
- Flash 8
- GXF with Custom VANC Package
- H.264 for Flash Player 10
- H.264 Transport Streams with Closed Captions
Utilize the Fullest Range of Advanced Enterprise-Quality Production Technology
With automated editing and content assembly, you can customize out-of-box production workflows to meet any requirements. In addition, Agility 2G comes with best-in-class video and audio pre-processing technology, making it the most powerful production tool on the market.
Out-of-box workflows include:
- Post-Production to Air (e.g., from Avid to Grass Valley)
- Tape to VOD (e.g., RS422 to CableLabs MPEG-2)
- News to Web (e.g., SDI to DV25, for Live Stream Clipping, to Flash)
Enterprise-Quality Monitoring for “Lights Out” Operation
The administrative features in Agility 2G enable you to determine the health of your system at any time with access to logs, status events, errors and user interaction statistics. Agility 2G enables you to virtually eliminate downtime. The logging system integrates with custom monitoring applications, and can be configured to report via multiple systems including database, e-mail, TCP or UDP, cell phone and SNMP systems.
Best-in-Class Video and Audio Pre-Processing Technology
Whether it is displayed on a large or small screen, your video is at its best with Agility 2G. Advanced video production features include noise reduction filters, motion compensation, image cropping and resizing, color correction and more. Agility 2G maximizes image and audio quality at all target bitrates. Advanced multi-channel audio (including Dolby E, 24 bit, 5.1 surround sound, audio filtering) and ITU-R Rec. BS.1770 two-pass normalization and compression ensure that you meet quality requirements whether you are producing output for a home theater or a cell phone.
Automate & Customize Outlet-Sensitive Media Enhancements
Agility 2G offers the most complete range of value-added production features in the market for customizing media to meet outlet-specific distribution requirements. The SDK, advanced API and Flash authoring environments for graphics are coupled with metadata-driven automation to allow the maximum amount of customization with minimal manual effort.
These enhancements include:
- Dynamic and Programmable Overlays
- Dolby E Decoding
- Motion Compensated Standards Conversion
- Forensic Watermarking
- HD VANC Ancillary Metadata Propagation
- VOD and IPTV Compliance
Ensure Reliability & Unmatched Performance and Scalability
Agility 2G achieves a market-leading level of throughput capacity with the newly integrated stateless Enterprise Control System (ECS) for uninterrupted operation even during system hardware failures. This architecture dynamically redistributes jobs or tasks on a network of servers for optimal processing and automatic fail-over in the event of pauses, delays or restarts.
With Agility 2G you can:
- Achieve maximum throughput and minimum latency with automatic reconfiguration of jobs and tasks
- Reduce congestion of storage networks and further increase throughput with single decode/multiple encode processing
- Increase throughput of media that is slow to process (e.g., HD, Flash, H.264) via grid processing, temporarily distributing various transcoding tasks across the network
- Ensure maximum resource utilization with floating licenses and unlimited concurrent tasks
- Virtually eliminate downtime with redundant ECS, stateless management, auto job fail-over recovery and task rescheduling
Deploy Quickly & Integrate Seamlessly with Existing Systems
Agility 2G features a Web-based UI, including support for XML and standard database integration, enabling rapid deployment, UI configuration and custom reporting. You can achieve maximum fl exibility with a service-oriented Web-based API, and control and manage workflows directly, or through other enterprise applications such as asset management systems.