PRESS RELEASE
iSIZE announces strategic partnership with Intel to achieve up to 5x speed performance improvement by using Intel’s AI technologies, for up to 25% bitrate saving
iSIZE leverages AI to advance high quality streaming with significant reduction in streaming cost
iSIZE Technologies, the first company to leverage advanced AI to enable high-quality streaming at a much lower cost, announces its BitSave precoding technology can now achieve speed performance up to five times faster on Intel’s AI-enabled CPUs, all while saving $176 per hour, per 5,000 streams.
That translates to significant total cost of ownership (TCO) savings for video distribution at similar video quality, as well as a strong economic argument for commercial deployment of enhanced end-user experience. iSIZE accomplished this feat through working closely with Intel to optimize its AI models for Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Deep Learning Boost (Intel DL Boost) and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, powered by oneAPI.
With video streaming TCO dominated by the distribution costs for premium high-resolution content, iSIZE customers, including CSP and CoSPs, can now realize even better cost savings using iSIZE BitSave technology on servers based on second generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with the built-in AI acceleration of Intel DL Boost.
More than 75-80 percent of video streaming TCO can be attributed to distribution. With the improved bitrate efficiency of BitSave, customers can save up to 25 percent in bitrate, coming to a total of up to $176 saving per hour and per 5,000 streams, with this calculation based on the figures reported in the recent AWS whitepaper. Alternatively, BitSave enables customers to deliver higher quality content (e.g. 1080p vs 720p) at the same TCO. iSIZE BitSave precoding technology uses advanced Artificial Intelligence models and can be easily integrated into an existing workflow. It runs outside the encoder and can work with any commercial and open-source codecs, including AVC, HEVC, VP9 & AV1.
CEO of iSIZE Technologies, Sergio Grce, commented: “We are proud to showcase our work with Intel to further optimize our AI precoding solution by leveraging the vast capabilities of Intel Xeon Scalable processors at the edge and cloud. iSIZE is able to bring significant bandwidth savings, and reduced energy needs to a variety of workloads such as VoD, live streaming, gaming and IoT. We are looking forward to continue our strategic partnership with Intel and seeing our deep perceptual optimization grow to its fullest potential for customers.
”Video creation and consumption is growing exponentially. Our work with iSIZE on software optimizations using Intel® DL Boost shows how companies can take advantage of integrated AI advancements in Intel Xeon Scalable processors to reduce the compute power needed to run AI” said Nagesh Puppala, Sr. Director, Visual Infrastructure Division, Intel Data Platforms Group.”
