Entone Announces Video On Demand Server With HP Hybrid RAM/Disk Solution on HP Integrity Super11 November 2005
Entone today announced its collaboration with HP in launching the world’s highest performing video on demand (VOD) server solution that will significantly lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for video service operators.
The breakthrough VOD server solution achieves single- server throughput of over 100 Gb/s. The Entone platform on a 64 processor HP Integrity Superdome server running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 delivers over 27,400 simultaneous MPEG -2 video streams at 3.75 Mb/s per stream or over 50,000 MPEG -4 streams at 2 Mb/s per stream.
The world-leading performance of the Entone VOD platform is enabled by Entone’s StreamLiner XL software coupled with HP Integrity servers. Entone’s StreamLiner XL and HP Integrity servers provide an extremely reliable, scalable, and flexible VOD platform with a track record for supporting 24x7 operations for many of the world’s most demanding workloads. This combination of performance and reliability is unprecedented in the industry and can result in a significant reduction in the TCO for operators deploying large-scale, carrier-class VOD services.
connect timed out “There was a time when deploying a video server of this scale was impractical due to technical and cost limitations,” said Tim Warren, Entone CTO. “By working closely with HP for the past 18 months, we have jointly developed a solution that sets a new performance and TCO standard for the industry.”
Libraries of video assets for the Entone StreamLiner XL platform running on HP Integrity servers can reside in RAM, on disk, or a hybrid of the two. The HP Integrity Superdome server is massively-scalable and capable of supporting multiple operating systems and up to 1TB of RAM, 128 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and a virtually unlimited amount of disk storage.
“HP Integrity servers run many of the world’s mission-critical businesses and are widely deployed in the communications and media industries,” said Rich Marcello, senior vice president and general manager, Business Critical Servers, HP. “The performance and TCO results we have achieved with Entone further demonstrate the deep solution capabilities that surround HP Integrity servers.”
Focusing on digital content distribution and digital content management, HP enables services such as Live TV, VOD, and other interactive TV and content delivery services via its HP IPTV solution. The HP Digital Media Platform and HP Media Storage solutions manage the workflow of digital rich media content in media and service provider environments.
Entone’s StreamLiner unique architecture enables flexible configurations of RAM, SCSI, and SATA storage. The StreamLiner architecture can scale from small system deployments of hundreds of streams to the world’s largest and most demanding deployments that may involve 100,000’s of streams. When coupled with Entone’s Armada intelligent asset management system, the StreamLiner platform can be deployed in a widely distributed environment or on a large-scale central server platform. Most operators choose to deploy a hybrid configuration involving a centralized library server and distributed edge servers, with assets stored in a mix of RAM, SCSI, and SATA storage.
“Beyond the industry-leading performance numbers sits an extremely reliable and widely deployed server platform that significantly reduces the risk of operators deploying large-scale VOD services,” said Mark Evensen, Entone’s VP of Product Development. “We believe this will leave operators wondering aloud what they have to gain by deploying proprietary hardware platforms that are so limited in performance, streaming media options, and system flexibility.”
Source: DMN Newswire
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