The Z-IP EncodeC REM is a four channel encoding blade (Compatible with the Z-IP 4U and 10U Chassis) capable of encoding and streaming using MPEG-4 Part-10 (H.264) compression, secondary stream for streaming high+low flavors of each source, up to two stereo pairs per video source, AES 256/128-bit encryption for securing streams delivered to Z-Band’s Z-IP Portal and IP set-top-boxes, real-time resolution and frame-rate downscaling, closed captions support, 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio encoding. Firmware upgrades allow for User Defined Channel assortment up to 4xSD or 4xHD sources of combinations.