Cheaper Options for Video Streaming
With all the how-will-they-make-money questions surrounding the online video sharing site businesses, there is a bit of good news from the infrastructure end: New and cheaper ways of streaming video are arriving on the scene, which may help trim the bandwidth costs for all the YouTube wannabes still in search of their Google payoff.
The cable-guy reporters over at Light Reading yesterday talked about how SeaChange International has plans to use flash memory technology in cable and telco video-on-demand deployments, a move that could cut power, cooling and administrative costs vs. traditional hard-disk based VOD systems. Is flash ready for big-provider prime time? According to the LR post, SeaChange will tell more at the Cable Show in Vegas the second week of May.
On the hardware side, Sun Microsystems showed it’s paying attention to the surge in video with its release of some specialized video streaming hardware that should draw looks from tire-kickers in the network-closet arena. ZDNet’s Dan Farber, who’s been around long enough to remember Sun’s first computers, has a good take and a rack-mountable photo op over at the Between the Lines blog.
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Whoa…might be worth taking another look at the LightReading article in regards to SeaChange They’re talking about flash memory (solid state storage), not Adobe Flash. SeaChange (and other cable enterprise VOD companies) have been using more and more DRAM-type storage in their products to reduce heat & power for some time, but the news is that moving to an all-flash-memory server is now feasible.
-Dan
Thanks Dan, for doing a better job reading than I did writing. Changed the post to make the fixes.
Happy to help out. NewTeeVee is a wonderful site by the way!
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