New server and storage platforms, along with Sun Streaming Software Release 2, are now part of the Sun Streaming System product portfolio, and Sun now claims with these new platforms it is offering the industry's broadest scalability and flexibility to service providers building out new video delivery networks.

"The Sun Streaming System is the only streaming product family on the market today to offer customers both disruptive economics and non-disruptive growth at nearly any scale point - giving customers the ability to evolve their networks and services without the pain of major retrofits or integrations," said Graham Lovell, senior director, storage servers and IPTV, Sun. "Sun's innovation makes us uniquely positioned to serve the needs of IPTV service providers and bring consumers the latest video technologies such as personalized video and social networking."

According to Sun, its Sun Streaming System product portfolio is the only IPTV platform that can scale seamlessly and cost-effectively from 100 to 160,000 simultaneous streams.

The Sun Streaming System includes the 1U Sun Fire X4150 server powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, the 4U Sun Fire X4600 M2 server powered by AMD Opteron processors and the Sun StorageTek 2530 Array. These platforms are for small to mid-scale streaming of television and IP-based video. The Sun Streaming Software Release 2 leverages the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and enables customers to scale from 500 to more than 1.5 million subscribers, and from 200 to over 1 million hours of content.

Sun Streaming Software is expected to add support later in the year for carrier-grade Netra x64 servers, Netra ATCA x64 blade servers and options to include flash-based storage from Sun. Service providers now will have the flexibility to independently scale streaming capacity, content capacity, ingest rates and degree of user interactivity as the needs of the subscribers evolve, Sun says and offers current customers and partners' comments as evidence:

"The Sun Streaming System is ideally suited for the video streaming services that we are planning in greater Bangkok. It is the only video streaming product platform on the market that offers customers maximum flexibility and ease of integration with Open Standards-based APIs to deliver personalized video services," said Jintavee Sawadisevee, CTO at Media Partners International Co. LTD, the major provider of video streaming services in Bangkok. "It also is the only product family today that has unmatched cost-effective streaming scalability from the low end, to configurations with hundreds of thousands of concurrent video streams."

"Building B has created a platform that is at the forefront of next-generation television, bringing together the best TV, movies and the Internet to deliver a comprehensive and modern home entertainment experience. Our network operations requires a flexible, yet small footprint solution that delivers high streaming performance at any scale," said Phil Wiser, president and co-founder of Building B, a U.S.-based entertainment technology and services company. "The Sun Streaming System and its new expanded product family provides a reliable, flexible and scalable architecture allowing Building B to cost-effectively deliver a highly advanced and personal television service to consumers."

For more details on customer, ISV and IHV support of the Sun Streaming System, visit: http://www.sun.com/servers/networking/streamingsystem/perspectives.xml [...read more...]

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