SOLUTION BRIEF

Full-Motion Video Streaming

High-Efficiency Video Coding for
DoD/SOF Applications

Availability of high-quality, low latency

video can significantly impact Department
of Defense, and in particular Special
Operations Forces, mission success in
real-time decision-making.
Overcoming Bandwidth-
Constrained Networks
with HEVC
DoD/SOF access to video streams
is often confined to closed network
televisions supported by set-top
boxes or customized PCs equipped
with streaming players. The fixed-
function hardware upon which
these enterprises have long relied
may provide high performance and
good picture quality for specific
applications such as standard
definition (SD) TV over traditional
networks. However, long product
life cycles mean the technology has
a low likelihood of keeping pace
with rapid advances in video formats
and resolutions required to provide
DoD/SOF generally have Beyond the sheer volume
the full picture for war fighters, ISR
limited bandwidth across which of video data streaming into
analysts and governmental agents.
to transport tactical data from ISR operations today, larger
multiple sources such as satellites, resolutions such as HD and Ultra Video compression that can supply
UAVs, and autonomous robotic HD exponentially increase the large volumes of HD content in real
systems. Bandwidth constraints raw content to be processed time for backhaul over constricted
present a bottleneck even as and delivered to warfighters networks and to do so in a minimal
actionable video data increases and agency officials. Full-motion footprint addresses this issue. HEVC
with the widespread deployment video can be compromised by is designed to provide high-quality
of surveillance cameras and video files so large they cannot be video at substantially lower bitrates
the growing reliance on mobile properly transmitted or so poorly as compared to MPEG-2 and H.264.
content capture and delivery from compressed that they lose vital Proven, commercial broadcast-grade
warfighters and agents on the image acuity. HEVC solutions can support DoD and
ground via smart phones, tablets SOF applications such ISR and video
and other IP-connected devices. backhaul contribution.

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S O L U T I O N B R I E F | Full-Motion Video Streaming

AWS Elemental Full-Motion

Deploys HEVC Video-Ready HEVC ADVANTAGES

The computational intensity of AWS Elemental provides the • Bitrate reductions of up to

HEVC lends itself to the processing ability to implement flexible and 50% for fixed video quality
performance advantage available scalable HEVC video processing compared to H.264
with graphics processing units for the DoD/SOF. AWS Elemental • Higher quality video at the
(GPUs). AWS Elemental has deep video processing enables video same bitrate
experience developing video backhauling using HEVC up to the • Maintenance of line 21
codecs from open specifications point where AVC H.264 can be closed caption (CC) data
to full implementation using practically used to get vital video • Ability to pass through
general-purpose programmable content over the network. encoded KLV metadata
architectures (GPUs and CPUs). • A standard syntax to simplify
With a flexible software-based AWS Elemental support for HEVC implementation and maximize
architecture, video processing also eliminates configuration interoperability
solutions from AWS Elemental offer complexity, optimizes mobile • Network-friendly support –
support for HEVC via a seamless video delivery and reduces total multi/unicast delivery via
cost of ownership. Because MPEG transport streams
software upgrade.
AWS Elemental builds software
Easing the transition to HEVC designed to run on off-the-shelf
within legacy MPEG-2 and H.264 CPUs and GPUs instead of fixed-
infrastructures, upgradable function processors, a mix of
solutions like those from AWS MPEG-2, H.264, and HEVC video
Elemental can incorporate content can be processed using a
new compression approaches single platform.

BITRATE
much more quickly than existing
fixed hardware encoding and AWS Elemental video processing
decoding platforms. Flexible solutions also perform real-
MPEG-2

HEVC
time, full-motion video for UAV

AVC
software running on massively
parallel hardware makes the AWS applications and are DIACAP 1994 2003 2016
compliant. They are ideally YEAR
Elemental computing platform an
ideal fit for HEVC. suited to an array of DoD/
SOF applications including
internal broadcasts, remote
training, location monitoring,
IPTV distribution, content
library conversion and global
communications.

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