Edgeware support in VideoExchange
Today we announce support for Edgeware appliances in our VideoExchange CDN software suite. This helps telecom operators further densify their CDN infastructure. Edgeware can burst 20Gbps capacity out of a single 1U solid state rackserver.
Edgeware is a very innovative company from Sweden. We met a year ago at Streaming Media Europe. We demoed each others technologies and both came to the conclusion that these are a perfect match.
Download the press release here.
Density
Imagine how much energy is wasted by CDN’s that do not optimize their infrastructure. A datacenter can use as much power as a small city. Most global CDN’s use heavy artillery: energy wasting servers, routers, storage solutions and datacenters. Racks full of large servers. Many of them running idle most of the time.
In our almost 15 years history we have always focussed on density. To save costs. We developed parallelization technologies. So you could run multiple services on each CDN node. That saves a factor 4 to 5 in required hardware. We have always tried to use low power, high performance servers. So we could squeeze more servers in a rack without having to worry about power availability.
We have also highly optimized VideoExchange. Assets are not replicated to every node. Only when assets are popular, they will be instantly transferred to the required servers. That saves a tremendous amount of storage.
Our own StreamZilla CDN is the first CDN in the market that made green delivery a key issue. Per january 2007, the entire StreamZilla CDN is powered by green energy. The datahouses use top cooling and cold corridors, which saves 25% to 40% on power consumption. The CO2 exhaust is compensated for. Our own parallelization and our dynamic storage allocation technologies turn StreamZilla into the greenest CDN in the market.
Edgeware
Edgeware has taken density to the extreme. In contrast to generic servers, the Edgeware WTV-2X is a small, integrated, high performance and ultra low power consumption appliance offering a step-change in cost effectiveness. It is purpose designed to work as a distributed cache for TV content anywhere in a network and offers efficient protocol support for any transmission mode. The 1U box can deliver up to 32,000 concurrent unicast streams. It can store up to 6TB content in ultra fast flash memory. At maximum configuration, the server only uses 85Watts.
Edgeware support
By adding support for Edgeware servers, anyone can now deploy a brute force CDN with just a small number of servers. Imagine you want to build a 200Gbps CDN. All you need is:
A dozen of Edgeware servers. Locate these servers in strategical positions (whether this is on-net or globally).
A small number of servers for VideoExchange to run on. A great configuration to start with is one management server, one database server, two redirection servers and a log processing server. All common, off-the-shelve hardware, running Linux.
We install VideoExchange for you, whether we have to do this on-site, or remotely on-line.
We add the Edgeware servers as core, fallback, overflow or edge servers to your VideoExchange CDN management dashboard.
And voila: you have your own CDN. Less than 20 servers, not even one rack in total, but 200Gbps raw performance available at your command.
Need more capacity? Add a box for 20Gbps additional performance.
Imagine…
Imagine how much power and rackspace you can save. Imagine how much money you can save if you can offload 20Gbps per Edge node off your backbones, transit links and peers!
And as a bonus, you get a full-featured CDN management suite. Manage the CDN. Provision customers. Customers have their private self-service center, with realtime statistics and beautiful historical reports.
A VideoExchange + Edgeware powered CDN can be operational in a few weeks. That includes architecture design, hardware deployment, software deployment, testing and training.
Oh and by the way, VideoExchange lets you mix different server types. You can add Windows Media Streaming Servers, Flash Media Servers, to your CDN at any time.
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