[streaming] Re: video on demand

[Keith W]

I work for ncube. We have roughly 100TB's of file system in New York alone and 
stream thousands of streams. These systems are far from flakey and
are the most redundant things you will ever see anywhere. There is a reason
for the prices.

Keith



On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Graham Leggett wrote:

> Paul Rae wrote:
> 
> > As much as we would like to see it, I don't see many IP/TV operators
> > picking up on it.
> > 
> > When you have customers paying you cannot and will not accept the server
> > to be flakey in anyway. And to be honest they arent that expenisve -
> > anyone seriously intrested in deploying a commerical vod server will
> > have the cash for one.
> 
> The trouble with commercial solutions is that they are in my experience 
> virtually always flaky, usually significantly worse than open source 
> alternatives. I have been burned enough times with software (both 
> commercial and open source) to know that there is no way I am going to 
> part with money for a software package until I see it run on my hardware 
> under load reliably, because I know that the minute the vendor has my 
> money, I am on my own.
> 
> :(
> 
> Regards,
> Graham
> --
> 

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