HP-UX Multimedia Streaming Protocols

hp-ux multimedia streaming protocols white paper
introduction
Digital-video transmission has managed to creep into our lives. It is expected
that within the next few years, high-quality video will be distributed along with
voice and data, in our offices, and homes.
A multimedia-streaming server helps to achieve controlled streaming of
multimedia information over an enterprise network. The streaming server can
receive data from various sources, including its own secondary storage. It
consists of codecs to transform data, a mechanism to control the flow of data,
and a mechanism to deliver this data over the network.
market
forecast
Network enterprises find the use of streaming in delivering corporate
communications very compelling due to cost savings in applications like on-site
training, remote sales presentation, management broadcasts, etcetera.
Steve Balmer of Microsoft says, “There will be a day, I promise you, when every
corporation will view it as a routine to communicate with its employees via
streaming over the corporate intranet.”
In a
networking computing e-mail poll, respondents were asked if they were
considering using broadcast video.
Following is the result of this poll in percentile:
Answer Response (in percentage)
Yes, we are currently using it. 25
Yes, within six months. 12
Yes, in 12 to 24 months. 13
Yes, beyond 24 months. 24
The poll results indicate that companies are showing precipitous interest to use
video-broadcast, with potential opportunities in streaming products.
Internet Traffic is expected to augment from 1 Million terabytes/month to 16M
terabytes/month in the near future.
It is estimated that streaming server market will grow considerably from 64,000
units in 2001 to 212,000 in the next couple of years, approximately 300%
increase (from Video Streaming Study by Anderson school at UCLA).
HP offers an optimum framework for multimedia streaming solutions in terms of
performance as it has implemented the critical portion of RTP in the kernel. This
is HP’s key differentiating factor in the multimedia streaming market.
executive
summary
This white paper presents a birds-eye-view of MSP, multimedia streaming
protocols, supported on the HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2 operating systems.
It provides information about the marketing opportunities that multimedia-
streaming solutions provide. In addition, the document delineates the
technology strategy, HP’s offering, software availability, and so forth.
In the subsequent sections, this white paper provides an overview of MSP
protocols, scenarios in which it is used, product architecture, etcetera.
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