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To: Christiaan McDonald who wrote (2607)	2/11/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: Nimbus	Respond to of 21143

What can you share about the technical method CCUR will use to get passed the 375 MPEG-1 stream limit they advertise? 375 MPEG-1 streams means 562 Mbits/sec which is the same as 70 Megabytes/sec which is the saturation limit of the VME backplane of their top machine(and rarely accomplished BTW). MPEG-2 is considered broadcast quality and is what all cable operators are targeting for consumer VoD. VoD MPEG-2 runs at approx 3 Mbits/s, so the CCUR machine tops out at 187 streams. This is a far cry from the several thousand streams needed in the far majority of cable head end systems. CCUR has a habit of over extending their applicability (just see their VoD products page ... they claim compatibility with so many commercial standards and just now are building a " VoD Lab." They need to calm down on focus on one accomplishment at a time, otherwise I will start to worry. They should not try to take over the world ... Do you have any insight on how they plan to get to 2000+ MPEG 2 streams ? As I said before ... they kill at mid-range ... but their answer to the high end is a real mystery, and replication quickly becomes very inefficient and not cost-effective. Ten 187 stream servers at $100K/server (w/ storage) is 2x the price of other solutions.