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Avail-TVN is the only single source solution for On Demand programming, offering content services including aggregation, metadata creation, encoding, distribution, asset management, and 24-hour customer technical support.

Avail-TVNís On Demand platform is efficient and easy to implement. Our single docking station solution reduces capital costs, headend space requirements, and operational complexity. Avail-TVNís platform is deployed at over 300 headends and is integrated with every combination of VOD server, middleware, IPG, and set-top box.

Avail-TVN offers 24-hour customer technical support from our state of the art Network Operations Center (NOC) in Burbank, CA. The NOC constantly monitors the VOD system and asset information. Our comprehensive and centralized customer care allows you to spend less time on the phone solving problems with multiple vendors by providing one single-source support solution.

Content Aggregation

Avail-TVN has over 10,000 hours of video on demand programming from over 200 providers. Our programming partners include every major movie studio, premium and basic cable television network, broadcast television networks, as well as providers working only in On Demand.

Content Preparation and Metadata

Avail-TVN has more experience in digital On Demand content preparation and asset management than any other VOD provider. Our content preparation systems have been designed to accommodate rapid program turnaround, schedule growth, and new On Demand programming concepts. Avail-TVN encodes in a variety of formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (H.264), Windows Media (VC1), SD, and HDand ensures that metadata is CableLabs-compliant and compatible with every deployed combination of server, middleware, IPG, and set-top box.

Transport

Avail-TVN manages the distribution of all assets via its internally developed Secure Satellite Transport (SST) system, the industryís first platform-independent, secure point to multi-point digital content satellite distribution system. As a result, Avail-TVN is equipped to deliver on demand content to any headend regardless of equipment types.

Transmitting via Intelsat's Galaxy 28 satellite, Avail-TVNís SST offers reliable, secure multicast delivery of all digital content. Through the use of unique site addresses and a fully encrypted signal, we ensure that content is delivered in its entirety only to authorized sites.