Kansai Electric Power Company Inc. (KEPCO) is the second largest electrical power supplier in Japan, a country where, it is predicted, 30 million homes will use high-speed Internet access and 10 million families will use super high-speed Internet access by 2005. Given that projected market, Kansai management decided to expand its fiber optic network (and its services) to supply high-speed fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and to add new content delivery services such as broadband Internet access, TV and video on demand, and voice services on its entire installed base.

KEPCO chose Sun and Kasenna to provide the IT infrastructure for this expansion. Kasenna's MediaBase open-platform video delivery software enables a standards-based video platform for acquiring, managing, distributing and delivering audio and video content over IP, ATM and HFC networks. KEPCO chose four Sun EnterpriseTM 420R servers for its edge server hardware and two Sun EnterpriseTM 220R servers as its contents archive server, running the SolarisTM Operating Environment (Solaris OE).

With MediaBase, KEPCO can provide on-demand and live video delivery capabilities on corporate LANs or private networks. The solution can scale across networks to reduce latency. Since both Sun and Kasenna support MPEG standards for compressed digital video and audio, KEPCO will appreciate the reduced time-to-market necessary to develop cost-effective interactive services for their customers that results from employing open systems.

MediaBase can scale to deliver multiple application formats -- MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 -- from one server, allowing KEPCO to distribute material in any combination of these formats from a single server to multiple client devices. The goal for KEPCO is to develop the ability to deliver broadband content in MPEG-4 to set-top boxes and PCs. And, with MediaBase, KEPCO will be able to expand seamlessly from its current system to multiple systems in diverse locations, managing video content throughout the resulting distributed environment.

Customer applications can be deployed on a single small box and migrated seamlessly to multiple or larger systems at any time. Users can launch broadband applications from 64 KB to 11 MB/sec. in standard formats on the same hardware platform, addressing multiple types of users and applications over multiple types of network environments with one infrastructure, one hardware configuration and one software solution.

For additional information on KEPCO, see:

http://www.kepco.co.jp/indexe.htm

For additional information on Kasenna products, visit:

http://www.kasenna.com [...read more...]

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