An inexpensive, scalable, and open-architecture media server

Author

Aref, Walid G. ; Braun, David ; Bushmitch, Dennis ; Kamel, Ibrahim ; Mukherjee, Sarit

Author_Institution

Panasonic Inf. & Networking Technol. Labs., Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

25-28 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

43

Abstract

An inexpensive scalable architecture for a multimedia server is presented. A detailed view of its software and hardware components is explained, as well as its performance. Results indicate linear scalability of the system in terms of server bandwidth with respect to the number of basic server elements. Since the server is composed of readily available inexpensive components, a variety of server capacities can be constructed at low incremental cost.

Keywords

multimedia servers; open systems; fault tolerant storage system; file system; hardware components; inexpensive media server; inexpensive scalable architecture; linear scalability; multimedia server; network architecture; open-architecture media server; performance; performance tests; scalable media server; server bandwidth; server capacities; software components; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Costs; Hardware; Image storage; Network servers; Scalability; Streaming media; Video on demand; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Technologies and Services, 1999. Proceedings. First IEEE/Popov Workshop on

Conference_Location

Moscow, Russia

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5985-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTS.1999.874004

Filename

874004