Blackwave for Content Distribution Networks

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Blackwave provides simplified video distribution management and lowest cost per stream of any content delivery solution.

Today’s traditional enterprise systems, primarily constructed for transaction processing environments, have not been designed or configured to seamlessly maximize video delivery performance. Given the escalating global demand for Internet video, providers require the capability to expand operations without jeopardizing cost models. Blackwave provides a comprehensive solution that enables you to achieve this.

Blackwave for Content Delivery Networks
The Blackwave System for CDNs, with 40Gb/s of base aggregate delivery performance and over 96TB base storage capacity, addresses the issues that are vital to simplifying management, lowering costs, and delivering a positive user experience:

• Automatically relay content from one tier of the CDN to another.
• Deliver content in real-time and cache for future delivery.
• Maintain Quality of Service (QoS) while delivering tens of thousands of streams.
• Use substantially less power to deliver each stream.

Superior to White-box Alternatives
Until now, there have been no viable solutions for CDNs other than developing their own “white-box” Internet video storage and delivery systems. However, the complexity of delivering high-performance and adaptable video service is not a hardware issue - it’s a software issue.

Blackwave software automatically responds to the resilience, performance, and integrity requirements of each title, thereby lowering your cost and the requirements of complex delivery management and scaling:

• Popular content, treated uniquely at the title level, is mirrored and always available, without rebuilding.
• The performance requirements for user-generated content is differentiated from other content types, such as multi-language, multi-format high-definition (HD) movie trailers. The Quality of Service of each title is met with efficient storage overhead.

The design of the Blackwave System takes into account the scalability needs of clients. Our system manages vast amounts of new content without over-provisioning or attempting to select the optimal storage location based solely on system volume, ensuring flawless QoS.