Universities
Technology
Inuk has developed a platform for the distribution of broadcast quality TV and audio over IP-based networks using multicast delivery.
With the company's primary focus on the higher education sector, this means that any University connected to JANET already has access to Inuk's Freewire TV service.
No Hardware Required On-site
Because Freewire uses a JANET-based delivery system for TV signals, no hardware is required on-site to receive TV signals (i.e. no aerials, receivers or servers). Students wishing to watch the Freewire service simply need to download a software client to install on their personal computer. This approach has multiple technical and practical advantages over a local server-based solution.
MPEG4
Inuk's encoding is based on H.264 MPEG4 thereby reducing the bandwidth requirements for each channel. Compared to an MPEG2 stream, MPEG4 streams require approximately half the bandwidth (typically 1.5 Mbps per stream).
Future
Freewire is constantly evolving with additional functionality, including: live pause/rewind/replay, HDTV, multi-room functionality, time shifted TV, community TV, gaming and network PVR.
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