Interactive VOD servers implemented in NPAC: concurrent interactive IP based VOD servers
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PC based Windows NT server (target: small corporate video installations): up to 15 MPEG-1 streams from single CPU/single disk
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UNIX based server (target: larger corporate video and educational installations): scalable to few tenths of concurrent video streams
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MPP server (target: community video servers): scalable to 100s of concurrent video streams
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Common features: unified server protocol; video format independent; interactive, support for HW and SW decoders, high performance via multithreading and asynchronous I/O
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Server access (search) and server management layer implemented via integration with web and relational database technology
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Web reference: http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/vod
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