About Kylone
One product. Ten years.
Tested where it runs.
Kylone is a software company with one product: the complete broadcast headend in software, licensed as six feature sets from the Digital Headend Gateway to the Hospitality Headend and the Carrier Monitor. Since 2015 that one product has grown through four generations and about two hundred field releases, and today it runs in more than 2,000 units deployed on four continents.
What we believe
Stability is the feature. A headend is sold once and expected to run for years with nobody watching it. Every release is judged by that standard: sources recover on their own, watchdogs guard the engine, a channel never goes dark through a switch, maintenance runs in its window, and the monitoring view shows what an engineer needs to see.
Tested where it runs. Every release is tested on the hardware it ships for: standard x86 servers with the Linux DVB driver stack, pinned to the kernel and driver set that passed, and the turnkey appliances a hardware partner delivers it on. One software, one support path, and no compatibility roulette between software and silicon.
Open where it counts. Processing runs as modules, the management API is published on GitHub, channel lists and programme guides come in the formats integrators already use, and central management is transparent about what it does and does not do.
Who we build for
Broadcasters and operators, hotels and hospitality integrators, campuses, residences and enterprise networks: anyone who needs a channel line-up delivered reliably to screens, whether those screens sit in a guest room, a lecture hall or a city.
What the product does
Sources
- Satellite, terrestrial and cable tuner cards: DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, DVB-C, ATSC, ISDB-T, with standalone CI slots and BISS
- IP contribution over multicast and unicast UDP/RTP, SRT, HTTP, HLS and RTSP
- Files as channels, HDMI and SDI capture, AM, FM and DAB+ receiver cards
Processing
- Automatic stand-ins: backup one-to-one or one source guarding many, with return
- Transcoding on NVIDIA, Intel QuickSync and AMD, or on the CPU; assistive captions
- Scheduled stand-ins for blackout windows, audio substitution by grafting a track, SCTE-35 cues, a video wall
Outputs
- Multicast and unicast UDP/RTP, SRT, HTTP and HTTPS transport stream, RTSP
- HLS with optional AES-128 content keys and adaptive renditions
- Multiplexer and DVB-C/T modulation; CDN push and other containers as modules
Screens and clients
- Set-top box and TV client lines, a managed Android fleet, PMS integration, guest hotspot, the CPE SDK
- Emergency alerts and messaging on Kylone's own set-top boxes and Android clients
Management and monitoring
- Web UI and the XML Management API, a seven-day programme guide in XMLTV
- Status pages with stream analysis, SNMP with the KYLONE-MIB, a Prometheus endpoint
- Remote access free of charge, modules installed from the Modules page, white-label branding, the host's firewall, SSH and updates managed from the same web UI
Carrier surveillance
- Spectrum acquisition, blind scan and run-to-run comparison of satellite carriers, on cards with a supported demodulator
Which product includes what, and how the licence works: the products and licensing page.
How we work
Small, direct and field-driven. The engineers who write the software answer the support requests, a customer's problem becomes a field release rather than a ticket in a queue, and the release notes say what changed and why. That is how ten years turn into two hundred releases without the product losing its shape.
Read on: Release Notes · Integration Guide · Management API · Contact