Tag: technical

19 Mar

Hierarchical Zones in Zignal

As with the previous release of Zignal, we continue to have full support for Hierarchical Zones. The opportunity here is to deploy Zignal in a mixed business environment, where a single service provider may serve different businesses.
18 Mar

Recipe for Fast Channel Zapping in IPTV Deployments

IPTV’s current inability to change between channels in a timely fashion is in our mind one of the single biggest problem of our industry. This blog describes an idea we have been working with at Industria to improve the quality experience of IPTV. It involves unicasting to the set-top box during the zapping-period.
16 Mar

Zignal just scales to smithereens

4 key points regarding Zignal scalability: • We have lots of logic running on the actual end-user device, including data caches. • By utilizing powerful OS Java tools like Spring and Hibernate tools we can scale the server to handle hundreds of thousands of users on single, powerful server hardware. • Zignal is engineered to handle most data in local caches on the Server, allowing horizontal scaling. • We are beginning to use the Terracotta clustering solution to distribute higher-level structures.