University of Maryland Libraries to Use Concurrent Video-On-Demand Solution for Multimedia Education
Business Editors/Technology & Education Writers
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2001--
-- Concurrent's Multi-platform MediaHawk(TM) Solution to Support Library-based Educational Content --
Concurrent Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:CCUR), the leading
provider of digital video solutions on demand, announced today that
its MediaHawk Video Server has been selected by the University of
Maryland Libraries, Nonprint Media Services, to support
video-on-demand (VOD) over Internet protocol (IP) and baseband
networks for education applications. The video server was purchased
through AVWashington, a Concurrent Value Added Reseller (VAR).
The University of Maryland, located in College Park, Maryland, is
a public research University with a total enrollment of over 33,000
graduate and undergraduate students. The University has gained
national recognition as one of the fastest rising comprehensive
research institutions in the country. The implementation of this
"distance learning application" utilizing VOD technology is one of the
many new innovations being implemented by the University. With the
support of Concurrent's VOD technology, students, professors, and
other academics will have a multitude of lectures, language, and other
educational content at their fingertips. This video-on-demand solution
will augment, if not replace, VCR-based video at the university's
library carrels.
Concurrent's MediaHawk Video Server delivers true interactive VOD
over a broad spectrum of networks for education, training, and
presentation applications. A high-performance, scalable, digital video
server, the MediaHawk supports from tens to thousands of MPEG1 or
MPEG2 digital video streams. Users are able to select, play, stop, and
pause each digital video stream independently with prompt and
predictable response times. The MediaHawk offers industry-leading
performance at the lowest cost per stream and provides the most
reliable response time achievable in the marketplace today.
"With its reliability and high video quality, the MediaHawk Video
Server represents a flexible and cost-effective solution for our VOD
requirements," said Allan C. Rough, manager of Nonprint Media
Services. "Concurrent's VOD solution will enable us to provide the
best audio-visual technology to our academic body. Equally important
is the fact that the MediaHawk Video Server is an open,
standards-based technology that will allow us to build
interoperability with other Information Technology systems in use by
the Libraries and the campus."
"Concurrent is extremely pleased to be working with the University
of Maryland by providing VOD `distance learning' solutions that meet
such high academic standards," said Jack Bryant, president and CEO of
Concurrent. "This video-on-demand application further illustrates the
diversity of digital video and achieves what we see as a benchmark
standard in the educational VOD arena."
About the University of Maryland
The University of Maryland (http://www.umd.edu/) College Park is a
public research university, the flagship campus of the University
System of Maryland, and the original 1862 land grant institution in
Maryland. In keeping with the legislative mandates of 1988 and 1999,
the University of Maryland is committed to achieving excellence as the
state's primary center for research and graduate education and as the
institution of choice for undergraduate students of exceptional
ability. It intends to become one of the most distinguished public
universities in the United States. To realize its aspirations and
fulfill its mandates, the University advances knowledge and provides
superior and innovative instruction in a broad range of academic
disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. It also employs knowledge
for the benefit of the economy and culture of the state, the region,
the nation, and beyond, and it does so in ways that realize one of its
most cherished values, human diversity. Finally, the University of
Maryland, College Park, provides leadership for the USM and its
constituent institutions on a number of important administrative and
educational matters. |
