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Content acquisition
Content Acquisition by CEF
The channels for your TV service, and everything around them.
We advise on content acquisition, whether from our catalogue or from any provider of your choice. Beyond the content itself, we take care of everything around it: rights and legal terms, commercial conditions, marketing, ad insertion and FAST distribution. One goal: the expansion and profitability of your business.
Best for TV operators, IPTV/OTT services and hotels.
- Channel catalogue
- Rights and legal terms
- Ad insertion
- FAST distribution
What you get
- A private catalogue of channels in packages, with reels and live previews.
- Advice on acquiring content from our catalogue or from any provider of your choice.
- Rights, legal terms and commercial conditions, negotiated on your behalf.
- Marketing, ad insertion and FAST distribution around the content.
The catalogue is private: CEF gives each client an access key.
Cloud playout
ChannelFactory by CEF
Launch professional channels with no broadcast hardware.
ChannelFactory is 100% cloud playout for FAST and linear channels. Organise your content in folders, build a schedule by day and time, including live inserts, and go to air with automatic transcoding to your delivery profile. An intuitive panel and a team-based studio let you run professional channels without deep broadcast expertise, while SCTE-35 markers give you full control of monetisation.
Best for FAST channels, pay TV channels, hotels, advertising.
- 99.9% SLA
- SCTE-35 ad insertion
- 100% cloud
- Built-in CDN
What you get
- Dynamic playlists from organised content folders; precise day and time scheduling with live inserts.
- Automatic transcoding and normalisation to your delivery profile; all video formats supported.
- SCTE-35 ad markers with control over ad frequency and duration; per-file on-screen logo.
- High-performance built-in CDN, or bring your own; direct delivery over SRT.
- Team-based studio with multiple users; intuitive cloud panel, minimal broadcast experience needed.
- Your on-ramp to the FAST ecosystem, with support for local news, events and special insertions.
Content contribution / distribution
Stream Gateway by CEF
Receive SRT and HLS, deliver reliable UDP, HLS and DASH, 24/7.
Stream Gateway takes an SRT or HLS feed and turns it into UDP unicast, multicast, HLS and DASH for headends, set-top boxes and in-room televisions. It runs on a Raspberry Pi or on Linux, with automatic source failover, email alerts on real failures, and a cloud panel that manages every device in the fleet from one place.
Best for Cable TV headends, hotels, IPTV / OTT networks and system integrators.
- SRT caller with failover
- UDP multicast, HLS and DASH out
- Up to 250 streams
- Cloud fleet panel
What you get
- SRT and HLS in; UDP unicast, UDP multicast, HLS and DASH out, per programme.
- Primary plus backup source with automatic switchover, per programme.
- Automatic demux of a multiplex into per-programme slots.
- Email alerts for signal loss, black screen and pixelation.
- Live RTT, jitter and bandwidth monitoring, with a full report on every incoming signal.
- Local panel per device and a cloud panel for the whole fleet, with remote configuration.
Signal delivery
Stream Delivery by CEF
Stream Delivery is CEF's signal delivery service. It carries your television channels point to point, over SRT or another format you request, from you, the content owner or distributor, to the operators, hotels and partners that carry them. It is fully automated: from a cloud panel you register channels and operators and request each delivery, our software builds it and puts it on air after a quick moderation, and you pause or restart it whenever you need. Every service is watched around the clock, backed by the 99.9% availability SLA and invoiced against what the panel counts.
Best for TV operators, B2B contribution, hospitality and distributors.
- SRT, HLS or RTMP
- 99.9% SLA
- Fully automated
- 24/7 monitoring
What you get
- Point-to-point delivery of your channels over SRT, or over HLS or RTMP when the receiver asks for it.
- Channels and operators registered in your cloud panel and private to you: another distributor cannot see them.
- One request per channel and operator; our automation builds the delivery and marks it ready, after a quick moderation.
- Pause and restart any service when you need: it keeps its reference and its full history.
- Automatic failover to a backup origin URL when you give one.
- Watched 24/7, a 99.9% availability SLA in writing, and invoicing against what the panel counts.
