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VidOvation and V-Nova Announce Strategic Partnership

London, UK – 15 October 2019 – VidOvation, a leading technology and systems integrator, and video compression technologies provider V-Nova have announced a strategic partnership to support the increasingly demanding requirements of media processing and delivery with next-generation video compression solutions.

The partnership will see VidOvation represent V-Nova’s line of PPro-powered P.Link products for the rapidly growing contribution and remote production markets in the United States.

The move further underpins a strategic partnership between AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, and V-Nova for development and commercialization of ground-breaking innovations for newsgathering. VidOvation is the master distributor in the U.S. for AVIWEST and will play a pivotal role in bringing the joint developed products to market in 2020.

Jim Jachetta, EVP of Engineering and CTO, VidOvation commented, “VidOvation excels in helping our clients integrate custom solutions into existing infrastructure and third-party systems with the ability to satisfy any application or budget. V-Nova’s P.Link, powered by PPro, has demonstrated its ability to provide the best video quality per bit of any contribution intra encoder on the market. This allows our customers to lower costs by up to 70 percent, increase video quality or increase the number of services in the same network link. Using next-generation solutions like P.Link will help us to help our clients deliver low latency, high quality streams from anywhere in the field.”

Matt Hughes, Senior VP of Global Sales, V-Nova said, “VidOvation applies proven expertise to the complete project life cycle for its customers from project consulting and management to engineering and design and support. As a strong addition to our channel in North America, we look forward to working with VidOvation as the top value-added reseller of broadcast technology solutions. VidOvation understands the business intimately and will provide a go-to source for professionals seeking to take advantage of our PPro-powered P.Link compression solutions.”

V-Nova will be present on the VidOvation stand at NAB Show New York, October 16-17, on Stand N265.

About V-Nova

V-Nova, a London based IP and software company, is dedicated to improving data compression by building a vast portfolio of innovative technologies based on the game-changing use of AI and parallel processing for data, video, imaging, point cloud compression, with applications across several verticals.

This is achieved through deep-science R&D (300+ international patents) and the development of products that test, prove and continuously enhance the technology portfolio.

V-Nova have released two innovative compression solutions: P+ is the industry’s first highly optimized software library for encoding and decoding enhanced video streams with MPEG-5 Part 2, low-complexity video enhancement coding (LCEVC). PPro is a high-performance AI-powered software library for SMPTE VC-6 (ST-2117) which is used primarily for professional production workflows and imaging applications.

V-Nova has developed multiple award-winning software products to kickstart the ecosystems for its technologies and allow their immediate deployment, addressing use cases in TV, media, entertainment, social networks, eCommerce, ad-tech, security, aerospace, defence, automotive and gaming.

V-Nova’s business model is to monetize its technologies through software licensing, IP royalties and product sales.

VidOvation VidOvation is a technology and systems integrator of video, audio, and data transmission, contribution and distribution systems for the broadcast television, sports, corporate AV, and government markets. Encompassing bonded cellular, wireless video, video streaming, video networking, encoding, IPTV, and fiber-optic communications systems, VidOvation solutions improve video transmissions by removing the frustrations of signal loss, latency, interference, noise, and security issues. VidOvation excels in helping its clients integrate custom solutions into existing infrastructure, with the ability to satisfy almost any application or budget. The company applies proven expertise to the complete project life cycle — from project consulting and management to engineering and design, to warranty and support.

More information about how VidOvation is moving video forward can be found at www.vidovation.com