Contract on Content Delivery Network Services including related Services

Description

The scope of the included services is as follows: Streaming CDN. Streaming is for both live and on demand streaming for video, audio and a web. The services must include Origin storage and blanking enforcement. It should be noted that DR are providing TV channels as well as live event encoder Service and Video On demand with subtitles. There are two different use cases for subtitling, one for foreign languages and one for Danish subtitles for the hearing impaired. Normally the Danish subtitles for the hearing impaired is closed subtitles and not visible until activated by the viewer, while subtitling of foreign languages is open subtitles by the player. DR will provide a HD-SDI signal with a SMPTE 2031 teletext insertion for subtitling. DR also uses WEBVTT side car for subtitles. Lot 1: The scope of the included services is as follows: Streaming CDN. Streaming is for both live and on demand streaming for video, audio and a web. WEB CDN is defined as web acceleration and transparent caching of text, graphics and scripts, server load balancing and failover features. The services must also include Origin storage, being the storage holding the transcoded media files for publishing by the streaming nodes. DR publishes content from internal storage (DR storage) to the Origin storage. Reporting data and logs, that secure the ability to provide raw log and reporting usage data that can then be analyzed by DR using separate tools for Quality of Experience purposes as well as reporting to rights holders, must be provided. Geo-blocking is an essential part of the required digital rights management infrastructure. Geo-blocking allows DR to ensure that some content will be restricted to Denmark and no other geographical locations. Blanking enforcement is another essential part of the digital rights management infrastructure, this involves subtitling. Live encoding involves encoding of a live video signal feed delivered as HD-SDI from the source to multiple distribution formats. Live feed to On Demand network DVR and time-shifting is to enable a live video or audio signal to be ingested directly into the streaming infrastructure and recorded to provide replay, pausing and restart functionality to End-Users. The Web CDN service has the purpose to improve the End-User experience when they are accessing DR's web applications. It should be noted that DR are providing TV channels (and live event encoder Service as well as Video On demand) with subtitles (captioning). There are two different use cases for subtitling, one for foreign languages and one for Danish subtitles for the hearing impaired. Normally the Danish subtitles for the hearing impaired is closed subtitles and not visible until activated by the viewer, while subtitling of foreign languages is open subtitles by the player. DR will provide a HD-SDI signal with a SMPTE 2031 teletext insertion for subtitling. DR also uses WEBVTT side car for subtitles. The Contract will have a term of 7 years from the commencement date. Furthermore DR wants to refer to Appendix 1 and 2.