How are companies like VidOvation tackling the increasing popularity of enterprise IPTV
installations and bridging the gap between broadcasting and proAV services?
On today’s episode of Signal Flow presented by Avixa, host Ben Thomas is joined by Jim
Jachetta, EVP & CTO at VidOvation, to discuss what VidOvation does in the IPTV installation
space to facilitate effective mass streaming services for enterprises.

Thomas and Jachetta also discussed...

1. What IPTV is and the challenges it will help enterprises overcome
2. The difference between unicast and multicast and how multicast improves streaming
efficiency
3. Digital rights management (DRM) implications inside of IPTV systems

Jachetta described how VidOvation creates fluidity between broadcasting and proAV. “We will
bridge the IPTV system to the master control router. The master control router is a big routing
switcher in every television station. They’ve got hundreds of thousands of feeds coming in,
and they’ve got a multi-viewer in the front of the room. What show do we need to re-transmit or we
need to air the feed from London to New York now? Or the feed from London is going to go live
on the news now. Or the tennis channel—a lot of the tournaments in Europe happen, you know,
three o’clock, two o’clock in the morning. So, they’ve got to bring them in, delay them, record
them, re-broadcast them, and marrying that workflow into the IPTV workflow is part of what we
do...we can bridge our video on demand or our video playback infrastructure into the television
infrastructure and vice versa.”

Jim Jachetta has been EVP & CTO of VidOvation since 2010. Jachetta began his career as a
Project Engineer at Micra Corporation and then served as Senior VP of Sales, Marketing,
Operations, and Principal at MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems prior to his current role at
VidOvation. Jachetta earned a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from New York University.
He also holds two patents for systems for the communication of video signals and has eight
conference, corporation, and association publications in the IPTV industry.