The MediaStar IP Re-Caster provides an efficient and robust way to distribute multiple live IP video streams between multiple remote sites. It can operate over a WAN, VPN, or the Internet using SRT protocol.

The unit is a 'hot swappable' blade based processor module for use in a MediaStar multi-slot powered rack chassis (part 770) or single slot appliance case (part 769). It will accept unicast or multicast IPTV streams, convert them to unicast streams and transfer them across a network to an additional site. A second 799 receives the streams and re converts them back to multicast or unicast as desired. Thus a MediaStar IPTV system can be expanded across multiple sites using a single headend. When there are access, quality or capacity issues on the links between sites, the Re-Caster uses a conventional internet connection and adopts a more robust, encrypted SRT transport mechanism to pass IPTV streams across the internet and then deliver them back as multicast or unicast streams at the remote receiving sites.