Content management and distribution platform

Product description

SmartMEDIA – content management and distribution platform – is a specialized media server which records, stores, and delivers audio and video content on demand.

SmartMEDIA's main advantages are:

• Flexible high-performance architecture which supports both centralized and distributed solutions;
• High reliability and manageability using cluster architecture to eliminate failure points if necessary;
• Lower capital and operation expenses due to standard x86 server hardware architecture;
• Wide range of supported formats including SD, HD, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 H.264/AVC, as well as tight integration with popular CAS/DRM solutions, encoders, and STBs.

SmartMEDIA software works on standard x86 servers and popular high-performance Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS. Also, SmartMEDIA management modules provide a wide range of APIs and integration components for third-party application s integration based on industry standards and protocols, i.e. JAVA, XML, RTSP and others.

Among other solution advantages are its proven high-performance and feature-rich content distribution mechanisms as well as tight integration with SmartTUBE SDP.

SmartMEDIA technical data:

• Support MPEG-2, MPEG-4.
• Support SD and HD formats.
• Support of VoD, PPV, nPVR, TSTV, ReplayTV and other services.
• Support both Unicast and Multicast.
• Overall simultaneous streaming capacity is up to 5,625 Gb/sec per server:
• 1500 of 3,75 Mbit/sec streams – MPEG-2 SD;
• 2250 of 2,5 Mbit/sec streams – MPEG-4 SD;
• More than 560 of 10 Mbit/sec streams – MPEG-4 HD;
• Metadata management using built-in DMBS.
• Manageable file system for data storage.
• Remote control support.
• Bit-rate up to 25 Mb/sec support.
• Intelligent content distribution capabilities in wide distributed networks.
• Standard x86 servers for hardware platform.

When creating distributed on-demand solutions, SmartMEDIA uses intellectual mechanisms of redirecting user's requests to 'closest' streaming server in SmartMEDIA Router component which interconnects with service provider core network and analyzes available user location data.
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