Blackwave Products - Overview
According to industry estimates, streaming and download of Internet Video will grow to 30 percent of all consumer Internet traffic in 2011. Yet distribution infrastructure has not yet evolved in response. Until now, most storage and delivery systems have ignored the business needs of Internet Video by treating rich media as if it were data. As a result, companies are confronting barriers to performance and profitability as their content libraries and capacity requirements expand.
Blackwave has forever changed the model for Internet Video delivery with a groundbreaking approach to storage and delivery of rich media. The first and only storage and delivery infrastructure systems optimized for Internet Video, the Blackwave 8100 Family delivers what content providers, media and entertainment companies, content aggregators, and CDNs want and need: low cost per stream, quality of service, turnkey installation and expansion, and adaptive scalability.
The Blackwave 8100 Family offers the perfect solution for organizations struggling with the compromises and tradeoffs of home-grown “white-box” systems and inappropriate traditional enterprise infrastructure. Blackwave storage and delivery systems remove the complexity, prohibitive costs, and scalability limitations of legacy systems, making it easy and cost effective to respond to the skyrocketing global demand for ubiquitous rich media. Since the Blackwave 8100 Family requires less than 10% of the power and footprint of traditional enterprise storage and delivery solutions, it offers significant consolidation benefits to companies that are challenged to keep pace with accelerating demands on energy and floorspace.
We recognize that content providers have different needs from CDNs. That’s why every Blackwave system has been developed with the specific storage, delivery, and infrastructure needs of different business models in mind, whether it be ingestion of content for delivery to a CDN or storage and delivery of any mix of rich media, including popular and long-tail entertainment, short and long form news, and in-stream advertising.
The Blackwave 8100 Family is backed by our comprehensive Customer Support Program and our commitment to a long-term partnership with each of our customers.
Key Features of the 8100 Family
- Significantly reduce costs of streams and downloads
- The first and only integrated storage and delivery systems optimized for Internet Video
- 10 Gb/s Ethernet distributed grid architecture
- Cut storage and delivery infrastructure costs in half through more efficient content management
- Distributed Grid Architecture minimizes single points of failure
- Quick and easy to deploy and manage without any IT resources or customization: just three sets of cables: Content Ingest, Content Delivery and Power
- Highly efficient form factor and power consumption: require 1⁄10th the space and power of alternative systems
- Pay as you grow independent scaling of storage and streaming
- Ensure consistently high QoS through real-time content provisioning at the title level
NOTE: Aggregate read performance is based on a 10Gb/s Ethernet connection. 10Gb/s includes associated TCP/IP overhead – content delivery performance will be less than 10Gb/s.
*Source: Cisco Systems estimates