Arroyo Teams With IBM to Deliver 10GigE VOD; Arroyo and IBM Solution Demonstrated in Arroyo's Booth #1275 at Cable-Tec Expo.SAN ANTONIO San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. -- Arroyo Video Solutions, Inc., which in January introduced the industry leading Arroyo OnDemand solution for "Always ON" Video on Demand (VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand ), today announced that it is participating in IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks program for the media and entertainment industry, and that it will demonstrate Arroyo OnDemand software running on IBM's eServer systems at SCTE SCTE Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers SCTE Society of Cable Television Engineers SCTE Serial Clock Transmit External Cable-Tec Expo. This agreement is a proof point for the value of open systems solutions to operators, as it brings together the benefits of Arroyo's "Always ON" architecture with the Fortune 500 capabilities, services and support offered by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and the eServer systems. Customers are seeking solutions that can help them better integrate processes and applications and allow them to quickly respond to changing market opportunities - all key elements in transforming to an On Demand business. In booth #1275 at SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo in San Antonio, TX, June 15-17, Arroyo will be demonstrating for the first time Arroyo OnDemand supporting native 10 Gigabit (10GigE) Ethernet interfaces on standard IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. hardware. Arroyo OnDemand is the only VOD solution today that supports 10GigE interfaces, offering operators the performance and scalability to deliver "Always ON" VOD even as demand ramps rapidly. "The combination of Arroyo OnDemand software and IBM's eServer hardware is a tremendous demonstration of the value of our 100 percent open VOD solutions," said Arroyo's Vice President of Technology Dr. John Pickens. "Together Arroyo and IBM offer operators a unique combination of our "Always ON" next generation VOD delivering the highest performing and most reliable VOD solution, and the peerless IBM capability to deliver carrier class platforms, a wealth of services and unrivalled geographic reach." Arroyo "Always ON" OnDemand is a next generation solution that addresses broadband operators' needs for new VOD services, dramatically increased performance and scalability, nonstop VOD reliability and reduced operational costs. Arroyo OnDemand is based on the Arroyo Video Platform, which drives industry leading performance of up to 5,000 streams from a single 3RU (rack unit A unit of measurement of the height of a rack-mounted device. One rack unit, or RU, is 1.75". See rack mounted. ), 100 percent industry-standard server. "Customers in the media and entertainment industry are seeking open solutions designed to meet their specific business challenges," said Buell Duncan, general manager, ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. & Developer Relations, IBM. "Working with Arroyo through PartnerWorld for Industry Networks will help us better serve our joint media and entertainment customers." The IBM PartnerWorld Industry Networks provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with comprehensive go-to-market programs that are specifically tailored to their industry requirements. As part of the PartnerWorld Industry Networks, Arroyo teams with IBM to bring joint solutions out to market faster. Arroyo's next generation, open video platform solutions are based on groups of industry-standard servers working together over a network and operating as one. This headend-based architecture delivers tremendous manageability and flexibility in the implementation of either centralized or distributed VOD infrastructures, with 100 percent reliability that allows "Always ON" VOD delivery 24x7. About Arroyo Video Solutions Headquartered in Pleasanton, California Pleasanton, nicknamed "P-town"<ref name="">Ptown (Pleasanton) Bike Advocates Meeting, East Bay Bicycle Coalition website, August 14, 2007, retrieved August 17, 2007, is a city in Alameda County, California and was incorporated in 1894. , Arroyo Video Solutions' first product, Arroyo OnDemand, offers video operators a unique network-centric on demand architecture that uses 100 percent open-standard hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. . Arroyo OnDemand employs Arroyo Video Accelerator A hardware component on a display adapter that speeds up full-motion video. The primary video accelerator functions are color space conversion, which converts YUV to RGB, hardware scaling, which is used to enlarge the image to full screen and double buffering which moves the frames into (TM) technology, which improves performance ten-fold over other leading VOD products, and is the first solution to deliver "Always ON" nonstop VOD. Arroyo is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , funded by leading Silicon Valley venture firms Matrix Partners, DCM-Doll Capital Management and Foundation Capital; and by Time Warner Investments and Comcast Interactive Capital, the investment arms of two of the nation's largest media companies. For more information, please visit http://www.arroyo.tv. |
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