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To: Goodboy who wrote (3037)	3/25/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: Nimbus	Read Replies (3) of 21143

CUSTOMERS don't ask for technology, they want solutions I have not seen any evidence that CCUR is trying to host their IVoD software on nonPowerPC platforms (Pentium). Mid-to-High end IVoD relies on some unique hardware architectural schemes to get it to work well. Although a Pentium could be designed in as an engine in an SMP, we are not talking IBM PC hardware architectures. To initiate and control just 200+ Streams of 1.5-4Mbps links is not easy since the delivery is extremely time dependant. You can't afford too much buffering. 2 second of MPEG2 buffering is a megabyte per stream =a 200MByte memory operating at 400MBytes/sec (read and write) ... that is not PC class(NT) server rates ... which are generally under 20 MBps even in 8 head Pentium Pro clusters . And things get progressively worst as stream counts scale up. The customers I deal with in IVoD don't specify technology ... they specify cost parameters and prioritized functions. These are aspects that affect the end-user ... how much for a movie, and how snappy is the interaction. Of equal importance is how easily can I add more customers (streams) and add more movies (storage) without a major redesign.

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