Streaming headlong into the video-on-demand server market, Sun Microsystems introduced a large-capacity system that they claim provides the ability to deliver more than 10 times as a number of streams as some existing VOD architectures.

It is good to see them work very hard to gain headway in a commodity oriented market.

The Sun Streaming System is allegedly able to deliver 160,000 MPEG-2 streams simultaneously at 2 megabits per second each, for a total of 320 gigabits per second of throughput.

That's well past the specs listed by Motorola for its B-1 server, which touts 80 gbps of output per system and a maximum of 20,000 simultaneous MPEG-2 streams, as well as other vendors like SeaChange International, which said its VOD server supports 12,000 in a single cluster. Posted by: martino    Source

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