Georgia's largest internet service provider which controls almost 60% of the national internet communications market is now using Teracue ENC-200 H264 streaming IPTV encoders.

The video and audio encoders are being used within Caucasus Online's IPTV project in order to obtain SDI signals from local TV stations and to ingest and stream them live on the ISPs FTTB network. The H264 encoders are used for TV contribution, making the broadcast stations available on the IPTV system and to its viewers.

14 H264 encoders in single frame enclosures are installed within every single TV station which are distributed throughout the capital city of Tbilisi.

Initially it was planned to install all H264 encoders within the television tower. But as a measure of redundancy and safety - in order that not all of the units are within the same building and so not all units would be using the same IP outward connection - the units are now installed in a distributed fashion on the ISPs network.

The H264 encoders were chosen as the output streams were suitable for direct ingestion into the Motorola-based IPTV system without any further processing. Caucasus Online is implementing the Motorola-based nangu.tv middleware from the Czech company Alnair a.s.

The other reason for selecting the H264 encoder was the compact size and fanless form-factor. Another important point was the fact that the H264 encoder supports many different encoding inputs, as there are still some small TV stations that operate only with CVBS and SDI cannot be used. As the H264 encoder supports all these inputs by default, there was no need for converters or different encoder models. The complete installation could be handled with a single product model. An additional H264 encoder is available for backup and additional redundancy.