Overview

Ittiam is a leading provider of media technology and systems for the in-flight entertainment (IFE) application. In fact, the current generation IFE solutions deployed in leading airlines and aircrafts have media processing and streaming technology sourced by Ittiam leveraging its Video Networking Systems (VNS) suite. These are one of the finest examples of effectiveness of Ittiam’s VNS methodology and quality of its technology.

Android is one of the most popular mobile operating systems on the planet and now Android based IFE systems are the latest in in-flight entertainment. As a leading technology vendor of IFE systems Ittiam is well versed with various requirements of delivering high end IFE systems. This coupled with more than two years of experience delivering systems on Android has enabled Ittiam to identify shortcomings of using the multimedia framework available in Android for IFE. Based on this learning, Ittiam has developed its VNS offering to serve as a suitable alternative to the default multimedia framework in Android. With VNS, Ittiam is in a position to play a major role in the adoption of Android in IFE

The application scenario for IFE is a combination of one or more of the following - in-seat or overhead displays for commercial aircraft with single or dual aisle configuration, high quality entertainment units for business jets, interoperability with legacy systems, wider variety of content both w.r.t. format and substance – movies to news channels for example. Each of these factors drive different system and technology requirements.

What's New?

Customers

Differentiators

Specifications

Ittiam is now a member of Airline Passenger Experience (APEX) Association

• Ittiam's IFE customers together constitute more than 85% of the market share
• Ittiam has gained vast multimedia experience on Android over the last 2 years (across 4 versions of Android)
• Ittiam's next generation IFE streaming systems as part of VNS are now better than ever
• Several media processing and media streaming methods and techniques to ensure great user experience
• High quality, high performance video

Media Server / Head End

Features

• Compatibility with legacy entertainment systems
• MPEG2-TS server with configurable latency
• Live or stored content capture, encode and stream
• High Definition Encoding
• Transcoding
• Multi-channel operation
• CBR, VBR options for streaming
• Support for Clock Skew correction and AV Synchronisation at client end
• Ultra Low latency Public Address
• RTSP, RTCP Support
• Power-on Self Tests and Diagnostics
• On-the-fly firmware upgrade

Applications

• Entertainment Media Servers
• Live Feed Cameras
  • Tail View
  • Landing Gear View
  • Ground View
• Live Transcoding
• Ultra Low latency In-flight surveillance
• Live Television

Media Client

Features

• Compatibility with legacy entertainment systems
• MPEG2-TS client with configurable latency
• AV Synchronisation (Across Multiple Hardware Units)
• CC, Sub-titles
• Trick play
• AES Decryption
• High Definition Decode
• Multi-channel operation
• Network Jitter Handling
• Clock skew correction
• Packet loss handling
• Error Resilience
• RTSP, RTCP Support

Applications

• Seat Back Units
• Over Head Displays
• Multi-channel Audio Clients
• Low latency In-flight surveillance

Media Format

Video:	H.264 (BP / MP), MPEG-4 (SP / ASP), MPEG-2
Audio:	DMPEG-1 / 2 Layers 1-3, AAC-LC / HE-AAC, Dolby AC3
Streaming formats	MPEG2-TS, RTP