DVIS II: Next-Gen Local Channel Insertion
Residents of apartment buildings, retirement facilities, MDUs and enterprise campuses rely on locally inserted television channels for property information, lobby feeds and local news. Delivering that service used to mean inserting a channel into a QAM multiplex. As the industry transitions to IP, the infrastructure is changing, but the need isn’t. DVIS™ II keeps local insertion working through that transition, across QAM and IP environments simultaneously.
Where it's used
Any communal or multi-unit environment where your team needs to insert locally generated content into a channel lineup alongside the main programming feed.
The transition problem it solves
Most commercial accounts currently served with local insertion have QAM-based infrastructure — set-top boxes that receive content from a QAM plant. As you migrate those accounts to IP, the channel insertion equipment needs to change too. But properties don’t switch over all at once. A building might have a mix of legacy QAM set-top boxes and new IP devices for years before the transition is complete.
Running separate insertion systems for QAM and IP during that period is expensive and operationally complex. DVIS II handles both from a single platform. The edge encoder outputs to QAM and IP simultaneously, so you can support mixed environments without maintaining parallel infrastructure. When a property eventually completes its transition to IP, the same encoder continues to serve it.
How the platform works
DVIS II is a two-component system. A compact edge encoder sits on the property. A software-based Enhanced Origin Server handles stream management and delivery for IP endpoints. Visium Manager connects and manages both remotely.
Key capabilities
Part of the Visium platform
DVIS II is managed through Visium Manager alongside the rest of the Visium product family, giving you a single management environment across gateways, room devices and edge encoders.
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