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Technology Stocks : Concurrent Computer (CCUR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James M. Bash who wrote (13664)	5/10/2000 12:13:00 PM
From: Nimbus	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21142

Jimmy You forgot BIG + Distributed. That's the future. I've seen nothing CCUR has ever done that I would consider BIG. The Mediahawk does what, 1 gigabit/sec best case ? nCUBE single machines can do 132 gigabits/sec today. Some facts: 1. A stream (MPEG2) is 3 megabits/sec 2. A 2 hour movie then takes 2.16 Gigabytes 3. 1000 movies means 2.16 terabytes 4. Todays biggest drives are 72GB and $1000 each, so that's 30 drives (and $30K per Mediahawk server at cost) to offer 1000 titles from one server ..MINIMUM. To do 10,000 streams and 1000 titles takes 30 mediahawks (best case) and 900 drives vs one nCUBE MediaCUBE with only 30 drives. This example shows that the Mediahawk needs 870 more disk drives or costs the OEM $870K more for base storage than a mediaCUBE like unit. At price that's likely a $1.5M hit. I haven't even introduced the back-up system aspect, which makes the small + distributed model look very much worse (as the 2TB back-up system likely has to be near each of the 30 servers, take up more footprint, and must operate unmanned in most cases).