Sun Designs Media Streaming Platform for Open Standards Sun StorEdge Media Central Streaming Server software is built on open, industry-standard protocols, providing the end user with a flexible, extensible foundation for future growth. As one of the principle architects of RTSP, we are pleased to see Sun incorporate RTSP support into their StorEdge Media Central product. Our joint focus on standards extends our close Sun relationship with the plan to have RealSystem G2 on Sun servers and storage co-exist and seamlessly operate with Sun StorEdge Media Central. The solution's interoperability can improve ease of use, as well as lower cost of installation, deployment, administration and ownership. The streaming software, coupled with Sun hardware, offers a flexible design that allows for future growth.
Customers can easily add servers and storage incrementally as their business demands grow.
As the traditional broadcast and Internet worlds merge, more and more applications for streaming media arise. Many traditional broadcasters are expanding their audience by offering daily live Internet broadcasts, as well as original Internet content. Traditional broadcasters are also starting to digitize their archived film. Instead of searching for footage in a room full of archived tape cassettes, the broadcaster could save time, expense and frustration by using Sun's streaming solution to implement a searchable digital library of archived footage. In the purely Web world, Sun StorEdge Media Central Streaming Server is ideal for media companies that are developing new uses for audio and video streamed to intranets and the Internet.