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To: GW who wrote (14934)	7/6/1998 7:02:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 77400

Fruits of the Precept deal: Cisco IP/TV Replicates Video July 6, 1998 PC Week via NewsEdge Corporation : Cisco Systems Inc. is readying an upgrade to its client/server IP video networking software that enables users to watch video files stored on a corporate network. IP/TV 2.0, which previously provided only live multicast capabilities, now offers a way to ease the network congestion that can result when many people use their desktops to view video stored on a server. By using servers distributed around a network, IP/TV replicates video to minimize congestion and enable load balancing between servers. It also allows a network administrator to incrementally add new IP/TV servers to meet demand or to provide video to remote offices, according to officials of the San Jose, Calif., company. IP/TV 2.0, which runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT and is due later this month, provides a new management tool to perform both the distribution of video to servers across the network and the balancing across those servers. The tool, Content Manager, also helps a network administrator monitor bandwidth usage as well as track the files that users are accessing and the duration of each viewing. Content Manager works in conjunction with IP/TV's StreamWatch multicast monitoring tool to help administrators perform network capacity planning and create billing functions to charge departments for the time users spend watching videos. The client piece of IP/TV provides an updated Web user interface that displays a hierarchical view of all the video programs available on the network, as well as keyword search capabilities. The IP/TV 2.0 Starter Pak costs $6,500. It includes 20 IP/TV Viewers, software for one IP/TV Server, one Content Manager and one StreamWatch monitoring tool. Cisco can be reached at (800) 553-638 or www.cisco.com. IP/TV 2.0 provides a Web interface for viewing videos on a LAN. <<PC Week -- 07-06-98>>