Sun ONE empowers next-generation network solutions in media and entertainment. Public broadcaster WGBH Boston, Williams Communications, operator of the largest next-generation fiber-optic network in the U.S., and Agari Mediaware Inc., a federated services software provider, are among the first to lay the foundation for the next-generation distributed computing models, such as Web services, in media and entertainment.

All U.S. broadcast stations will be activating digital transmitters within the next six to twelve months. Free from bulky tape libraries, entertainment, information and video content can be electronically stored in digital format, allowing storage, access and distribution via the Network.

An early advocate of the Sun ONE vision, public broadcaster WGBH Boston joined with Sun to develop an end-to-end reference architecture, based on Sun hardware and storage, to provide high-bandwidth, highly-reliable digital asset transmissions for North American broadcast television stations. The Sun ONE architecture will enable WGBH to manage, distribute and preserve content, helping to surmount the long-term storage issues brought about by the integration of digital technologies. Archived material can be repurposed and delivered digitally to the consumer via alternative channels, which can help create a broader audience and additional revenues for content owners.

To provide a cost-effective model that protects, manages and distributes intellectual property of many of the biggest media and entertainment companies in the world, Sun and Williams Communications developed a Web-based digital media management solution that enables safe, scalable deployment of digital assets.

The digital media management solution runs on Sun's iPlanetTM Portal Server and serves as a central depository for the digital media assets of several of the industry's leading providers.

While management and delivery of media content to online customers helped redefine the traditional media and entertainment industry, the race to digital and video-on-demand is paving the road for customer-driven services on demand. To meet the demand, distribution of multichannel content services requires efficient delivery of the content to and through the network edge.

Based on the Sun ONE platform, middleware software provider Agari Mediaware Inc. has organizations to create, assemble and deploy federated services for transparent access to any content-processing application. Agari's Media Star middleware turns applications such as digital asset management into services--search, transform, ingest, store--that employees can access anywhere, anytime. Media Star 2.2 is based on the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM). [...read more...]

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