topic Re: Media Server Configuration in Operating System - HP-UX

Media Server Configuration

Manjeet_1 — Tue, 06 May 2003 18:15:16 GMT

I want to setup a media server in my intranet to serve internal users about inter-company video-conferences and presentations (both live and archived).

If someone has already done it, I would like to hear about it viz. the server platform, disk/memory/network config, the software used, access control for some presentations, etc. The server should be able handle about 1000 concurrent connections.

Any white-paper, or other URL will be very helpful.

TIA

Re: Media Server Configuration

Michael Steele_2 — Tue, 06 May 2003 19:39:11 GMT

This is all RF technology.

I used it but HP retired the HP Video Transfer Engine and the whole division. Are they making them again? I thought Silcon Graphics was into this gig.

This was the HP Video server and it was composed of 11 different network nodes at the server end, not including the Broadband Integrated Gateways, ATM Fore Switches, QAMS, TDMAs, Slotted Alohas, Connection Management Controller, Combiners and RF Concentrators need to stream the video into the set top box or TV receiver. This network topology is also known as an 'Isochronous Network' because of its guaranteed time of delivery. No retransmission for bad data. When 1 through 1,000,000 leaves the server it goes out in sequence and arrives without reorganization in the same sequence, 1 through 1,000,000.

At the server transmission site there was one T500, Two ATM Fore switches, two HP Routers, four HP Real time Data Stores, (RAID Level 1), one HP Stream Controller.

The hybrid fiber coax network that we used was rated second behind microwave transmissions or line of sight signals. There reasons are volumous. Microwave is digital while the other was analog and we couldn't get around it. Also there was background static interference from a variety of sources. Grandma's blender or Dr. Peabody's 'Way Back Machine'. You have no control over what people put next to the TV, so there will be background interference unless you control it and microwave was better for this.

One movie consumed about 4 mb of data and it all had to be previewed before release because it would sometimes arrive from the lab with errors.

Re: Media Server Configuration

Manjeet_1 — Wed, 07 May 2003 13:39:32 GMT

Thanks for the info. I was under the impression that it would be a simple setup. Maybe, I should drop the idea of having live broadcast and go only for recorded playbacks. Do you have any sources of white-papers that I can look into it?
Thanks