SAN DIEGO, Calif: Imagine Communications, a leading innovator in advanced 
(Adaptive Bit-Rate) ABR streaming is being adopted to support delivery of video to many different IP endpoints. At the conference, Imagine’s CTO and Founder Ron Gutman will be speaking on a panel titled “Is Adaptive Bit-Rate Streaming the Solution or the Problem?” on Tues., Oct. 25 from 1:45-2:45pm. This panel will explore the pros and cons of this technology and look at other long-term alternatives and what it takes to deploy them. Gutman will provide an overview of a typical TelcoTV network, technology trends for unified multi-bitrate platforms, usage statistics for multi-cast vs. unicast ABR and the technical challenges of delivering massive amounts of OTT (Over The Top) video, including recommended solutions and standards and immediate steps needed for efficient ABR streaming.
“The flexibility of an ABR streaming platform enables the best efficiency and best video quality on a per-client device basis by automatically adapting the video bit rates when sharing the network with other video, data and voice services, and it’s taking an increasingly important role in video delivery,” said Gutman. “I’m honored to be speaking at this conference on such an important and timely topic as ABR streaming is becoming a necessary method for global telco video service providers to deliver uncompromised video quality across multiple viewing devices ― and they need to do it with unmatched compression efficiency, unlimited scalability and full support for integrated fragmentation, encryption and HTTP streaming to be successful.”