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Stratacache Announces
OmniCast for Push VOD
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Stratacache
June 6, 2006
Software Ensures High-Efficiency Media Distribution to Regional
Head-Ends and Subscriber STBs
Dayton, OH -- Stratacache today announced OmniCast for
Push VOD, a new, software-based solution for IPTV and on-demand
video providers who want to achieve maximum scale, performance, and
efficiency with their existing network equipment and servers while
ensuring fast and reliable access to content for their subscribers.
Many existing service provider content distribution mechanisms rely
on inefficient FTP-based transfers, which extend the time and
bandwidth requirements for replicating media to hundreds of
thousands of endpoints. OmniCast for Push VOD leverages
Stratacache’s patented multicast distribution technology to enable
simultaneous media distribution to tens of thousands of endpoints
such as regional servers or subscriber set-top boxes (STBs).
OmniCast’s open API makes it easy to integrate with existing content
storage or management applications on media streaming servers,
encoders, and other components of the VOD delivery ecosystem. |
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“The network bandwidth required to support IPTV networks will become
a major issue as the number of subscribers on these networks grows
from a few hundred thousand to a million or more. In addition, the
migration to video-on-demand and network PVR services will further
compound the problem by significantly increasing the amount of
unicast traffic on these networks,” said Bob Larribeau, program
director for IPTV at the Multimedia Research Group. “OminiCast has
correctly identified optimized content distribution as a key issue
in these networks.”
IPTV and VOD service providers are wrestling with several different
on-demand network architectures, trying to assure fast and reliable
content access for their subscribers without breaking their business
models by spending too much on infrastructure. OmniCast for Push VOD
provides a cost-effective solution to elegantly push content across
a network serving tens of thousands of devices without any negative
impact. Thanks to its world-class transport efficiency and patented
multicast delivery protocols, OmniCast for Push VOD dramatically
reduces the time it takes to distribute new content, and eliminates
the network congestion caused by tens of thousands of individual
content requests. OmniCast for Push VOD works in any IPTV or VOD
network, easily integrating with solutions from leading content
security and encoder vendors while servicing either unicast or
multicast network segments.
OmniCast for Push VOD features an automated distribution system that
allows providers to queue up encoded content in advance of a user
request and have it automatically pushed at a pre-determined
bandwidth level to an edge device without manual intervention.
Providers can easily create subgroups of users (channels) and push
special-interest content to the STB as a further value-added
service.
“Push VOD is rapidly becoming a popular method of improving customer
service while reducing network costs,” said Chris Riegel, president
and CEO of Stratacache. “OmniCast for Push VOD allows on-demand
providers to reliably push content to the consumer STB, improving
the user’s viewing experience while actually lowering network
infrastructure, bandwidth consumption, and costs.”
Consisting of both client and server components, OmniCast for Push
VOD uses the same core technology that has made OmniCast the
best-selling distributed enterprise content distribution solution
worldwide. Every day, the world’s largest organizations use OmniCast
to efficiently and reliably deliver multiple terabytes of data or
video to hundreds of thousands of locations across the globe.
OmniCast for Push VOD is available immediately.
About Stratacache
Stratacache is the world leader in efficient, scalable and cost
effective content distribution and application acceleration
solutions for highly distributed, network-connected organizations.
Serving Global 2000 customers and service providers worldwide,
Stratacache's products transparently solve large-scale content
distribution and application performance challenges while
immediately providing tangible return-on-investment and dramatically
improved user satisfaction. Stratacache is based in Dayton, Ohio USA
and is privately held. For more information please visit
www.stratacache.com or e-mail info@stratacache.com |
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