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Mini Box, Massive Impact: How Advantech and NETINT built a compact edge server for high-performance streaming.
Dom Mrakuzic from Advantech joins Voices of Video to unveil how this revolution is unfolding through solutions like the Quadra Mini Server, a collaboration with NETINT Technologies. This compact half-rack appliance represents a significant breakthrough in edge video processing, capable of encoding 20 simultaneous 1080p broadcast-quality streams while consuming just 10 watts of power.
What makes this development particularly significant is that it wasn't conceived in isolation. The Quadra Mini Server emerged directly from customer requirements in environments where traditional rack servers weren't practical - sports venues, remote production sites, and other space-constrained locations. The result is hardware purpose-built for the real-world challenges of modern video delivery.
The conversation explores how edge computing is transforming live video production economics, making previously expensive operations accessible at scale. Dom explains Advantech's approach to creating long-life industrial solutions with global support, ensuring deployments remain viable for 5-15 years - critical for industries from broadcasting to medical imaging.
Perhaps most compelling is the realization that concepts like "just-in-time encoding," discussed theoretically for over a decade, are finally becoming practical realities. As major streaming services push their video infrastructure to the edge, purpose-built VPU technology is making these architectures economically viable for the first time.
Whether you're building next-generation streaming platforms or simply want to understand where video technology is headed, this episode offers crucial insights into the hardware driving today's most innovative video delivery solutions. Check out the Quadra Mini Server at IBC in Amsterdam or visit NETINT.com to learn more about this edge encoding revolution.
Main points:
• Advantech builds purpose-built industrial PCs and appliances designed specifically for video processing applications
• The Quadra Mini Server combines Advantech's compact half-rack hardware with NETINT's VPU technology
• Edge computing is emerging as the key differentiator in video delivery, moving processing from cloud to on-premise
• The T1M VPU in M.2 form factor can encode 20 simultaneous 1080p30 streams while consuming just 10 watts
• Advantech provides long-life industrial solutions with global support for a minimum of 5-7 years
• Major streaming services are increasingly pushing their video infrastructure to the edge
• Just-in-time encoding at the network edge is finally becoming economically viable with VPU technology
Stay tuned for more in-depth insights on video technology, trends, and practical applications. Subscribe to Voices of Video: Inside the Tech for exclusive, hands-on knowledge from the experts. For more resources, visit Voices of Video.
voices of video. Voices of video. The voices of video voices of video well, welcome back to another super exciting episode of voices and, as always, we are hosting conversations with the movers and the shakers and those companies and those individuals who are building the stuff, deploying the technology. They're really in the middle of where the streaming industry, where you know, video production, but especially video delivery, is headed. And today I am joined by Dom Markuzek from Advantech and first of all, dom, I want to say welcome to Voices of Video.
Dom Mrakuzic:Hey, Mark, thank you very much for the introduction. I'm very happy to be here and I'm very happy to talk about video innovation.
Mark Donnigan:Yeah, absolutely. You know our two companies are a little newer working together. We showed something very exciting at NAB, but I don't want to jump ahead to talk about this new server product. We'll get there. Maybe you can introduce Advantech. I'm not sure all of our audience knows exactly what you do, although they probably use your products, so they just don't know it.
Dom Mrakuzic:Absolutely so. Let me introduce myself, so my name is Darmar Kuzik. I'm a key account manager at Advantik and I'm predominantly working with OEMs and solution providers in the broadcasting, pro-av and medical platforms. Antec is an industrial PC manufacturer, so we don't build just boxes. We build purpose-built appliances that are wrapped around encoding, streaming and video delivery platforms, and we work with tons of solution providers and we work with silicones or actually we work with powerful silicones like NetEnt to deliver a final system for our customers. We've been in this industry for a very long time. I'll just say that Advantiq has been around for over 40 years. We do consider ourselves as an expert with the video space. We work with legacy type of systems. We are now championing this edge AI or video on the edge, which is a new trend, so we're bringing tons of expertise to the real customer problems got acquainted, of course.
Mark Donnigan:I've known at Vantech for many, many years. I know with what you guys do. You can't exactly name the products that you build, but it has someone else's brand or name on it. But really rest assured that I think everyone who's listening to this episode is using one of your products Somewhere in their workflow.
Dom Mrakuzic:Well, that's a good you know. You've said, you know we're a brand behind a brand, right? That's right, we're not just a box manufacturer. We are a solution provider end-to-end solution, so that means bringing technologies together, combining the hardware with the firmware and software, to deliver a tailored, long-life solution for edge computing.
Mark Donnigan:Yeah, yeah, it's awesome. Well, today I want to focus our conversation on a product that we have brought to market together called the Quadra Mini Server, and maybe you know it might be interesting from your perspective, Dom, to tell the story of how this even came to be, Because I know it was a little bit of a joint project. From the perspective that you had the vision, I think you had a customer or two with some very specific requirements. You met NetEnt and learned about the VPU. We looked at what you're doing and together looked at each other and said this thing needs to exist. So what was the genesis, the story of the Quadra mini server?
Dom Mrakuzic:Right. So, as I mentioned, advantage builds purpose-built appliances and we are very vertically driven. So we have teams, product teams and sales teams that are focused on the video vertical, which is broadcasting and ProAV and what we've seen. You know, we try to design solutions, not just a cookie cutter box. Try to design solutions, not just a cookie cutter box, but we try to design solutions that, somewhat, will be meeting the customer specific application and then we have an ability to customize. So what we've seen is that customers are looking typically to do three things, and I mentioned they're trying to either reduce the footprint of their product solution so not every application allows a rack-bound system. The second is they're trying to reduce the cost right, the cost per stream is how they measure the output. And then the third thing is everybody wants to increase performance. So how can we get more on the edge with not exploding our bill of materials? So our product teams were designing these half-rack appliances. We called it Vega. Vega 6321 is the model number that is designed to have video outputs, so to have what we need in terms of IO's, what we need in terms of IO's, but also to have somewhat designed to allow plugging PCI cards for video acceleration or M.2 cards. So we had a design for this box to meet a need of a small footprint, half rack, short depth appliance that can be either used in a rack or can be used on a desktop and fast forward.
Dom Mrakuzic:When we were designing this solution we met NetEnt through you know, we kind of have mutual customers and we've learned about the new T1N card that was coming out and, you know, a little bit of skeptical because what the data sheet says it can be done is that what you know. You trust it first. But our teams, we kind of collaborated. We got some samples, early samples on hand in Taiwan. Vice versa, we gave you our sample box to test and this is the beauty of how Adventic works right.
Dom Mrakuzic:We tested the card and actually it does everything that you want it to do in terms of video processing. But it's also a unique form factor so it has a little bit more width to it. It has a power consumption that we needed to test internally to provide some customization to adapt to it. So this box coming out it's not just an off-the-shelf box, it does wrap around your product to make sure it works and it performs in the environment. So this took about, I think six months by the time we started working on it and bring it to market. I would say NAB was kind of brought to market, launched. So if you think about from a time to market standpoint, it's a very short time to have a concept in mind and then a finished solution that is ready to be deployed.
Mark Donnigan:Yeah, it's really an exciting box and of course, we'll link up in the show notes and you know, wherever else that this episode gets published to the product page because, if you haven't seen this, this is a very compact one RU height, so half rack, so half rack width, compactbox. That is absolutely ideal for sports stadiums, any sort of on-premise streaming application where, as more and more of live streaming architectures are transforming from, you know, instead of sending a contribution feed up into the cloud, performing, transcoding, packaging everything in the cloud and then distributing it. More and more, we're seeing a lot of these architectures where that whole process is being done on premise. It's being done in the stadium. Maybe not all of it, there might still be some ad stitching, or maybe there's still the packaging and DRM process that may need to happen in the cloud, but all the ABR ladders are created on premise.
Mark Donnigan:This little box produces a very, very high quality broadcast quality video stream delivery solution and you know it just sips power. It's very, very low power consumption. It just really ideal. So, yeah, so you know. So, dom, you referenced and you know you have this. You have the same problem we have.
Mark Donnigan:We have to very loosely refer to our customers because you know generally, you know confidentiality agreements and you know in some cases, the fact that they're using our, our, our respective hardware solutions is a competitive advantage. So they don't really want to tell everybody the reason why they can deliver such high quality video to 300 million subscribers or whatever, is because they're using, you know, net and VPUs. But maybe, maybe you can characterize just from a use case or an application perspective, how is a solution like this, you know, being used and you know, maybe give the backstory because, you're right, we have shared customers and that's, of course, how we initially got introduced. But there was a groundswell of interest in this and I know you guys were really looking for a solution but needed the encoding piece, right, what's the?
Dom Mrakuzic:backstory there. So the backstory would be so Advantiq is, we have what we call the ecosystem of technology partners, right. So these are all big, big, typical names from the CPU side silicon providers. But we're always looking to provide a leading edge. So the fact that NetIn is coming along with a VPU which not a lot of people are familiar with, right, this is what we felt is the right choice for Advantiq to bring into our ecosystem to compete. So if we go and when we say compete, right, we need to be competitive or provide a competitive solution to our customer to get them to work, for them to be competitive and ultimately work with us. Right.
Dom Mrakuzic:So everything at the end is an equation and what I mentioned in the beginning is an equation and what what we saw said. What I mentioned in the beginning is three things are driving kind of the industry and driving us towards this type of solution. So one thing is um, and I'll get to to the last point first. So one thing is the video quality. Right, we, we see the video quality is improving in the sense, you know, the delivery of 4K video is now becoming a standard. But most important, not just delivery of 4K video, the video needs to be when it's live streamed, needs to be at almost zero latency, or that's some sort of an expectation, so that kind of drives. The second point, which is, well, we're going away from the cloud to edge processing. The more we can do on the edge, the faster we'll be. So that's the second part of the equation.
Dom Mrakuzic:Now, when we're doing things at the edge, it's, you know, not every application is suitable for a server group. We see now that, especially in the streaming space, when you have somewhat on-premise type of broadcasting or streaming, there needs to be a compact environment, a way to deliver this solution. So, going from 2D Edge now, we also need to be reducing the size of the solution, and that means we're stepping away from CPU plus GPU type of solution to deliver the video quality. We're now moving towards a VPU. Now, the beauty of your VPU is not just it's powerful and it gives us the video quality we need. Its footprint is really small, so we can actually take this card which is, if people aren't familiar, it's in an M.2 form factor box optimize the thermals around it and that box can be deployed within a stadium or a van somewhere in the field, even going to a server room to deliver the video processing.
Dom Mrakuzic:Now, when you open this kind of space for video processing, then we start seeing more and more applications, not just in the brackets of space we see applications in we did mention it in surveillance right, when we have these systems that are not your typical you know Fort Knox buildings that have a server room in the back and cameras connected to it it needs to be a compact, maybe a desktop device that will have the connections to the IOs speaking generically to cameras that we need to connect to process the video and then have an output to control some axes or so on. So that's kind of I hope I wasn't too long in my answer but that kind of transition from what is driving. We need to remade the quality, we need to be accessible on the edge and we need support in terms of architecture. That's how the solution is being created. So, and to be fair, just one last point.
Dom Mrakuzic:We are doing this with our customers and I think you can attest to that. You know it's not that this solution is just a product of Advantech with our ecosystem partners and then we're translating it into the market. We're taking, you know, live feedback from our customers, because Advantiq is very, very diverse. In ODM original design manufacturing we do a lot of design based on our customers' requirements. Synergy of hey, we have some, you know, designs that are pre-concept, but with our expertise and their feedback from the real world we can design, you know, additional appliances. So that's the beauty of this.
Mark Donnigan:Yeah, I think you know that's a very important point. I'm glad you just said what you said, because a lot of products get built out of obviously there's some germ of an idea which probably comes from the market, comes from some customer request, or there's some observation that a company has. They say, hey, this thing should exist. And then they go off and build it and then, after it's built, they're out trying to figure out okay, how do we sell this? This is very much a product that came 100% on the back of real customer application, real customer requirements. Part of the reason that I really want to emphasize that point is that there are other hardware solutions in the market. There's other approaches. You know there's even much more compact boxes that are, you know, quite small, might have a couple HDMI connectors on it. They're usually built around literally the SOCs that come out of cell phones. I know one particular company that makes a very compact little box. It's fairly cost effective but it's an SOC out of a cell phone which for certain applications might be perfect. You know, if I need to stream my local, you know, school's PTA meeting, you know, and I just need a really simple encoder, that's a great solution. But that's not what this is. This is a full production distribution encoder in a box, in a very compact box, and this is designed for that next level of event um, you know, whether it be a sporting event or whether it be just, um, you know, some live event, a concert, where quality absolutely has to be held at a premium, at a high level, but the footprint needs to be small, the power draw needs to be small. Obviously, there is a cost component, because this is still a quite cost-effective solution. So I really wanted to highlight that fact, that this isn't I really wanted to highlight that fact that this isn't AdvanTech and NetEnt coming together to build something and then bring it to market. This came because customers said we need this box, build it and we will buy it. So that's where it came from.
Mark Donnigan:Let me also give just a little bit of background on the T1M, because I'm really happy that you pointed out that solution. So if the listeners are not familiar, you know everybody knows the U.2 form factor. That's SSD. So if you've held an SSD in your hand, that is a U.2 physical interface, and I think most people have seen RT1Us and so they're very familiar with what that looks like. Everybody knows what a PCIe interface is and there's different size cards. But again, I don't have to explain that. The M.2 form factor may not be quite as well known, although I think everybody has seen it at some point, just maybe didn't know that's what it's called.
Mark Donnigan:It is a very, very compact, just 60 millimeters or 80 millimeters in length, very low profile heat sink. It only draws 10 watts, so I mean it sips power and that little device can encode 20 simultaneous 1080p, 30 broadcast quality streams, live streams, live streams, av1, HEVC or, and it also can be and H.264, because you can mix the codecs. It also supports for 4K, p30. And if you need to double it, if you're doing live sports, you're like, oh, but we need P60. Then you just simply take those numbers and cut them in half. Basically, you know it scales very linearly. So from a performance perspective, I think those are some specs that you know people would be wanting to know, like, okay, great, but is this thing basically a cell phone encoder, you know, or is this a real production? You know, distribution broadcast quality encoder, and it's everything but another box builder.
Dom Mrakuzic:So we're ultimately a purpose-built appliance manufacturer. So the QMS or the Quadro Mini Server, is a perfect example where we're taking real customer feedback, what they need to plug in, what they're trying to achieve to the ground level. Where do they want the solution deployed? Right, we would customize the rack mount to make sure, if you need a power adapter on the right side of the unit or behind, that kind of solution is provided. So we have a finished product that is exactly addressing the issue. And I think that, if you want to set Advantage apart, that's how we build things.
Dom Mrakuzic:So we're not a typical top-down. Let us design some boxes, let's try to shove them. There can either be an overkill or they can maybe lack some important features. They can maybe, you know, lack some important uh features. We, we are exactly catered to. We have something that is pre-concept or in design or maybe even in mass production, but we want to take that and design it to, to build, to order what you exactly need. So that's, that's what advantage is. But to add something to it which is important is global deployment that you mentioned. So our solutions can be deployed anywhere in the world, can be accessed, can be serviced anywhere in the world.
Dom Mrakuzic:So Advantech is a global company and what I said at the beginning, advantech is an IPC manufacturer. So we are industrial, meaning long life. Everything that we design will be supported for a minimum of five to seven years. Now we work a lot in the medical space, which is driving us as well to be longer than that. We have some products that have been sustained for 15 years and if you think about it, that's long.
Dom Mrakuzic:Generally, if you build an appliance, let's say your processing unit, a CPU may drive your initial lifespan. Typically embedded CPUs are 10 years. Then beyond that, there's ways we can do what we can do to help sustain an exact BOM so the customer doesn't have to go through recertification or changing and they're trying to sunset their products. Maybe they needed more time. We can't do that. Speaking of what's happening in the market, we see DDR4 going end of life and, to be honest, a lot of our competitors are ending their appliances saying well, even though the DDR4 memory may be scarce or there's a very short life to it, advantica will not end-of-life chassis or a box until the customer is ready to move on, and that's maybe something that we typically don't think about when everything is great and we all have solutions and there's boxes in the field, but when things change and they do change, you know a lot, sometimes abruptly, sometimes planned. Advantage is here to actually support the transition.
Mark Donnigan:Yeah, yeah, that's great. Well, so important. You know you because you're working in the medical space. You've already referenced security and surveillance, obviously, media and entertainment. You. I think you have an interesting vantage point of how systems are being built today and I'm just curious, you know, if you have any observations that you would like to share or that you can share with us about maybe some trends, even if people aren't you know yet executing in a in kind of a new direction. Like, does anything stand out in terms of of where maybe future video workflows might be headed? You know how they're built and just the topology. Do you have any insights to share?
Dom Mrakuzic:Yeah, you know we're as I mentioned, we are very vertically driven, so, you know, if you want to pinpoint how a specific market is moving, we can talk about. You know broadcasting streaming we can talk about you know broadcasting streaming. We can talk medical, but what is maybe a somewhat consensus is doing more processing on the edge. So edge computing is becoming the differentiator between, you know, a solution provider that may have great applications in the cloud to a system provider that has a device that's in the field and that can provide a better access to the technology. So I would say that the edge video is being number one trend. You know AI, we can talk about it. I feel that you know it's becoming almost like a buzzword because we're trying to achieve some sort of AI on the edge, and maybe in video space there's a case that we talked about, not kind of like AI, but it's more video analytics on the edge. So I could talk about maybe a specific case study that one of our colleagues has been worked on, but it's basically, if you're thinking about remote production for live events, right for live events, right, so if a customer needs to stream live video from a stadium to a private video cloud, and so the production team needs to access and edit the footage from different locations.
Dom Mrakuzic:So Advantage is, you know, we build the hardware. So let's say, for example, the Vega 6000 platform, but then the NetInt module, which is built into the hardware, helps us handle the channel density, right. So that's this edge processing before the video is moved into the cloud. So and I think it's one of the specific applications we're thinking about encoding more than 100 channels simultaneously, right? So in terms of, was this possible before? Maybe, but it cost a lot of money. It was a lot of hardware needed for it. Now we're looking at, you know, cloud-based live video, sports production as a kind of, in a cost-effective way with low latency.
Mark Donnigan:So that would be a great game changer, right? Yeah, I can recall going to industry conferences, oh, back around 2013, 14, 15. So more than 10 years ago, and there was a lot of talk, a lot of papers, a lot of presentations around that time of this concept of just-in-time encoding and transcoding. And you know, obviously the concept is very easy to understand. Rather than creating your adaptive bitrate ladder, which is for most parts of the world, that is how we stream and deliver video and do it so that someone on a slower network connection can still have a decent experience In other words, they don't have as much bandwidth, so we just send them a lower resolution file. Everybody understands that. So there was this concept, a lot of papers, a lot of presentations. There were companies that were presenting their solutions where you basically would distribute a mezzanine or your kind of your highest quality profile over the network and then, at the edge, you would transcode in real time for that device. Very easy to understand. It's easy to kind of dream and say, wow, that would be amazing because literally I could create a custom profile for Any number in theory, an unlimited number of devices, because all I'm doing is loading a parameter file. You know I'm giving it. Ok, I want this resolution, I want to use this Kodak, you know, I want this frame rate, I want this color, you know. In other words, all those parameters or the hardware at the edge, I can literally have a custom version that's perfectly suited to my device. That could be different a little bit, or different a lot than what Dom receives, because he has different requirements based on either the network, his device, et cetera.
Mark Donnigan:The problem was that 10 years ago there were hardware solutions, but they were not really purpose-built. The quality wasn't there, there was a whole lot of challenges, software was just too expensive. So a lot of interesting research but no implementation. Research but no implementation. We now fast forward 10 years and now we are seeing as the CDN has transformed from basically a caching network to a computing network. And you know, different commercial CDNs are in different phases of rolling this out. But just look, for example, at our partner Akamai, what Akamai is doing, and it's very clear to see that the CDN is. Yes, caching is still a major function of the CDN, but compute is really front and center computing right on the network, at the edge of where the CDN is going.
Mark Donnigan:Well, you know now for the first time, you now have compute sitting at the edge of the network that's available and with VPU, now you don't have that cost hurdle and all of a sudden it unlocks this really amazing new approach, um, which has been talked about for 10 years. You know, like I say, I I remember vividly because I was very interested. Yeah, I've been working in this space for for many, many years and, you know, it just made sense to me, um, you know, but of course the obvious question, you know, but of course the obvious question was well, how can you do it cost effectively? Now, you can. And this is, you know, this is something that this whole idea of the edge maybe there's some folks that have a little fatigue because it's been talked about for many years, you know, tried and, for the reasons I just stated, didn't work out or was only really possible in very limited deployments. But now, if anybody's listening to this and saying, okay, edge, we've been talking about the Edge for years and the Edge never really has materialized. So why are you guys so excited?
Mark Donnigan:Don't sleep on this one, who would be my, you know, would be my advice and I'll also, you know, make this observation, you know, really suggest staying on top of the tech blogs of, you know, of all the major streaming services. You know Amazon Prime publishes pretty regularly. You know, talking about what they're building, what they're doing. You know what they're deploying some of their technology choices technology choices Obviously, netflix has a very active tech blog. Really, I think most of the major streaming services have an active tech blog.
Mark Donnigan:I highly recommend going back and refreshing what all of these companies are talking about, especially Netflix, and you know it. You don't have to do a whole lot of reading to realize that all of these companies, these great companies that you know many of us would love to, you know, be able to deliver their quality at their scale and and and to do what they do. This is what they are building. You know they are building. They are building different variations, they each have their own approach, but you really, when you read the blog, their video infrastructure is moving to the edge. It is being pushed to the edge and if you don't have VPU, it's going to be very, very, very difficult to really pull it off Right.
Dom Mrakuzic:I think we can agree. We will see more and more applications and we will not be trying to drive them, we will be accommodating them. That's right. I like that angle when you mention streaming companies. Not driving, you're accommodating, yeah, I mentioned streaming companies Not driving.
Mark Donnigan:You're accommodating, yeah?
Dom Mrakuzic:I think another great example is OTT streaming companies doing video quality inspection right. They need to ingest many different formats. They need to monitor for issues, check encoding consistency before delivering content to users right. So with NetInt, we can enable them to transcode many channels in real time, while a customized system can provide video outputs for live monitoring or visualization. So this is basically again an application where an OTT streaming company can see and analyze multiple video streams at once, which is very important for QA, right Compliance or just great user experience. So it's a very simple application in a way, but again it's utilizing Edge to deliver quality, compliance and user experience.
Mark Donnigan:Yeah, yeah, yeah, amazing. Well, I really appreciate our collaboration and partnership and I would be completely remiss if I didn't point out that for any listeners who are going to be at IBC which, by the way, is coming up in just like five, yeah, six weeks, I guess, yeah, in fact, actually six weeks, in fact six weeks today. Well, today is Thursday, but basically from tomorrow, in six weeks, is the start of IBC, of IBC. Advantech will be in the NetEnt VPU ecosystem booth along with seven other companies, so it's going to be quite busy and real exciting. We're going to be showcasing the Quadra mini server and, of course, advantech will be there to talk about, you know, other solutions that they have that might be of interest or relevance, you know, to media and entertainment video delivery.
Dom Mrakuzic:Yeah, I think it's great to mention. So you know, the purpose of all of this is to drive the thought leadership and drive the awareness of where the industry is heading and what solutions are there. So I think IBC will be a perfect example. Advancic and NetEd will be collaborating. We will be joined together in a big booth at the show. We will present some of our existing solutions, like the Quadro Mini server, like the Quadro Mini server, but, more importantly, we're going to be there to listen. You know what is the application that is going in the direction where we can provide some solutions around it. And I think we're all excited to be there. We're excited to talk to real customers and kind of marry our solutions into a final product.
Mark Donnigan:Yeah, I love it. You know we are. Netent is customer-centric, you're customer-centric. Without that real-time feedback, that real-world requirements gathering, certainly I'll speak for us the VPU would not be where it is today, and so trade shows and events like IBC are just phenomenal opportunities to be able to talk to the market, listen to the market. Everything you just said, so yeah, we see it the same way. So Dom Advantech is a big company. Where can people go in the media?
Dom Mrakuzic:and entertainment space to learn about what you do and more about the products that you make, specifically for the applications we've been discussing? Well, that's a great question. So, as I mentioned, advantiq is a global company, so we have a footprint in Europe, north America, asia, and we also are very active online. So if you go on our website, advantechcom, or if you look at our LinkedIn profile, there's always some marketing material that may provide some general information what we're doing. But I would suggest reach out. Either if you have a local salesperson or if you don't, you can reach out by our general contact.
Dom Mrakuzic:We have a ton of information that is in our roadmap that is not available publicly. So if you're an engineer or if you're a product manager, that you're thinking of a product, don't try to find it on our website. As I mentioned, we don't build cookie cutter systems. You may find something that will give you a general idea of what we can build, but find your product team or local sales team. They will introduce you to a whole roadmap of products that are in design and you can maybe leverage to build your solution.
Mark Donnigan:Yeah, that's great and obviously go to NetIntcom. We have a page for the Quadra Mini server. That is a product that we sell directly to the market. So if somebody you know just if that's a good fit for you there's different configurations you can get information there. But yeah, well, this is great. Well, dom, thank you again for joining us. It was a great conversation and I really do look forward to seeing you in six weeks in Amsterdam. We're going to have a good time talking video and enjoying some you know, just some conversation. You know about the industry and about what all is happening and talking to customers. So thank you for coming on.
Dom Mrakuzic:Thank you, Mark. It was really a pleasure. You guys are phenomenally organized.
Mark Donnigan:I think this provides some good information to the audience and I look forward to talking more at IBC. Awesome, thank you. And to the listeners, we really do appreciate you. Without listening to Voices of Video, well, we'd be talking to ourselves and that would be a little boring, not as fun. So thank you for joining us. Be safe, be well, and I do hope to see you all in Amsterdam at IBC.
Dom Mrakuzic:Sounds good. Thanks, guys. This episode of Voices of Video is brought to you by NetInt Technologies. If you are looking for cutting-edge video encoding solutions, check out NetInt's products at netintcom.
