Blackwave 8150 System

The Blackwave 8150 System is designed with the specific performance, reliability, and cost requirements of aggregators in mind. With a Base System of up to 96TB of content storage capacity and up to 20Gb/s of content delivery performance, the 8150 System is ideal for any content provider seeking to control delivery costs by delivering the entire spectrum of content, from the end of the Long Tail to your most highly popular content, without sacrificing Quality of Service (QoS).

Like the entire Blackwave 8100 Family, the 8150 System is designed for Internet Video from the ground up and features the industry’s most advanced high-speed architecture and intelligent operating system. The 8150 System overcomes the costs, complexity, and scalability limitations inherent in enterprise and white box infrastructure approaches. Existing Enterprise and White box systems address content indiscriminately, provisioning content with high performance, resilience, and integrity requirements alongside content with low requirements. Blackwave’s unique operating system manages content on an individual title basis, provisioning each title in real time based on its unique performance, resilience, and integrity requirements. Utilizing high-speed 10Gb/s architecture, the 8150 System ensures QoS by automatically reprovisioning content based on its real-time popularity.

The 8150 System offers a cost-competitive, low-risk solution to complex, costly in-house approaches that require significant resources to design, build, and maintain. The 8150 is a completely integrated system that is quick and easy to deploy with only three sets of cables to connect:  one for content ingest, one for content delivery, and one for power. The 8150 System utilizes tuned and tailored industry-standard hardware, 10Gb/s Ethernet technology, and IETF standard HTTP for ingest and content delivery, ensuring seamless integration with your existing content management systems.

We understand that content providers need to scale their capacity and performance quickly in response to growing audiences and content inventories. With the 8150 System, you can now independently expand streaming (up to 5Tb/s) and storage (up to 10PB) and geographically separate your storage and delivery to meet the needs of your content providers and audience. The 8150 System requires only 10% of the power and floorspace required by traditional Internet Video systems that employ enterprise hardware. This high level of efficiency enables you to increase your productivity while downsizing your existing footprint. As your needs grow, the 8150 System’s energy and form factor efficiency will enable you to significantly ramp up your capacity without investing in major facility upgrades or additions.

The 8150 System is backed by Blackwave’s Customer Support Program, designed to ensure reliable delivery and optimal efficiency. Our level of commitment transcends your current implementation to include support for future expansions and configurations. When you select an Blackwave storage/delivery system, you gain a long-term partner dedicated to your growing infrastructure needs as you capitalize on the ascendance of rich Internet media.  

Key Features:

• Optimized for storing and delivering Internet Video
• Ideal delivering a wide popularity range of rich digital media to massive audiences
• Lowest cost per stream of any content storage and delivery infrastructure solution: cuts storage and delivery infrastructure costs in half compared to Enterprise solutions
• Seamlessly integrates with content management systems through industry- standard HTTP ingest and delivery
• Delivers Quality of Service for both high-demand and long-tail content by responding to the resilience, performance and integrity requirements of each title
• Low power and cooling requirements and small footprint enable installation in any location
• Simple to deploy and manage
• Highly reliable and interoperable:  innovative software and high-speed architecture are implemented on industry-standard hardware
• Each drive delivers 500Mb/s streaming-download performance, 10 times the industry average
• 10Gb Ethernet grid architecture enables content to be automatically provisioned in real time based on popularity
• Intelligent operating system provisions content based on its unique performance, resilience, and integrity requirements, leveraging system resources for optimal content monetization
• Highly scalable, up to 10PB of content storage and 5Tb/s delivery performance
• Streaming and storage expandable independently and at separate geographical locations to seamlessly tailor your infrastructure to your customer needs
• Intuitive management console empowers you to securely ingest, configure, control, and monitor your content from any location at any time
• Future proof: easy to upgrade at your own pace

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