CATV & Broadcast Engineering
Enterprise-Scale Expertise. Mission-Critical Reliability.
Leveraging over 21 years of “Engine Room” experience at the nation’s leading MSO to provide elite video delivery, compliance, and infrastructure solutions for your organization.
Why Partner with ASHLAR | NEXUS?
We don’t just install hardware; we engineer ecosystems. Our leadership includes a former Video Strategist responsible for IP and Legacy video delivery across a 13-state region, managing $2.4M+ in capital budgets with 99.1% forecast accuracy.
- Proven Reliability: We design architecture that has been shown to halve outage risks for linear viewers.
- Revenue Protection: Our experts have maintained >99% ad-insertion success rates, protecting millions in localized revenue.
- Efficiency at Scale: We led the recovery of 24 EIAs of spectrum in the Bay Area—a $48M investment recovery completed in record time.
Our Specialized Video Sciences
1. Headend & Hub Architecture
Digital Video Processing solutions for:
- Demodulation, encoding, transcoding, and decoding.
- Expertise in ATSC 1.0, SDI, HD-SDI, and Baseband.
- Mastery of MPEG-2 (H.262), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), and HEVC (H.265) CODECs.
2. Compliance & Regulatory Mastery
Avoid costly fines and maintain your “License to Operate” with our deep knowledge of federal standards:
- Emergency Alert Systems (EAS): experience as the SME for 80+ principal headends and FEMA IPAWS/MyStateUSA.
- FCC Federal Compliance: Adherence to CFR Title 6 and CFR Title 47.
- Accessibility Acts: Expert implementation of CALM Act (Loudness), Closed Captioning, and Audio Description (DVS).
3. Next-Gen IP Video & OTT Migration
Future-proof your network with our experience in the MPEG4 Migration and IPTV/OTT launches:
- Transitioning from legacy plants to IGMPv3 Source Specific Multicast.
- Managing SPTS/MPTS environments across CBR, VBR, and ABR profiles.
- Deployment of Remote Monitoring solutions to “see what the customer sees,” reducing truck rolls and OpEx.
The “Go-To” Engineering Partner
When your technical teams face “hot issues,” we are the specialists they call. Our toolkit includes:
- Data-Driven Insights: PostgreSQL scripting to determine trends and performance metrics.
- Performance Audits: Evaluating QoE (Quality of Experience) and QoS (Quality of Service) to ensure protocol compliance.
- Workflow Integration: Full proficiency in JIRA, Modular Workflow, and Remedy ARS.
- Advanced Analysis: Bug verification, stream studies via MPEG Analyzer, and fault isolation for digital statistical re-multiplexers.
Ready to Engineer a More Reliable Network?
Whether you are a broadcaster, Public Educaction Government (PEG) Studio, an MSO, or a private facility looking for enterprise-grade video, ASHLAR | NEXUS is ready to lead.