Media Solutions
According to Steven Hawley of Multimedia Research Group (MRG), there will be 63.6 million IPTV subscribers by 2011 and they will demand the highest Quality of Experience (QoE) in order to remain loyal1. Operators of Cable, Telecom, Direct Satellite, Internet Service Providers and the NEPs (Network Equipment Providers) that supply them face a number of challenges in trying to win their share of this growing and valuable market.
- Reliable delivery of media services such as IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), VoD (Video on Demand), NPVR (Network Personal Video Recorder)
- Delivering multi-play services (Phone/VOIP, IPTV, Broadband Internet, Mobile) with optimum quality of experience
- Maximize ROI on capital investments
- Reliable scalability with lower cost/media streams
- Share gains and growing revenues with customized advertising
The Solution - Astute Networks Edge Storage Architecture for Media
Astute Networks’s Edge Storage Architecture (ESA) delivers the bandwidth, scalability (capacity and media streams) and support for interactive transactions to provide optimum QoS/QoE to subscribers, enabling high-volume streams across multiple titles to multiple clients simultaneously. ESA accomplishes all this via high-performance, lower-power, green-friendly, 10Gb Storage Processor technology, support for NEBS Level-3, advance cooling solutions that keeps high performance 15K SAS disk drives cool under extreme conditions and a 100% HA architecture.
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More Revenue Streams, Scalable Media Delivery and Lower CAPEX/OPEX
To satisfy the myriad of standards, application and technical demands of media delivery, Astute Networks’ Edge Storage Blade solutions for Media provide superior business, operational and application benefits:
- Support thousands of media streams for optimal media stream performance
- Delivers high availability thanks to built-in reliability: NEBs certification, low power, easy cooling
- Enables easy deployment via “plug-and-play,” pre-configured server/storage packages
- Increases market share, subscribers and media streams with 25% more revenue-producing media servers per ATCA rack Lowers CAPEX and OPEX
Read the Astute Networks Media Solutions Brief
to learn more.
1http://akamai.infoworld.com/Intel/company_47374.html?view=3&curNodeId=0&prId=AQTU12719062007-1