Datafleet Announces NetworkTV, Brings Multicast Video to the Desktop.LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1998--Datafleet Ltd. today announced NetworkTV, which provides delivery of video to desktop PCs over any type of local- or wide-area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. or WAN). NetworkTV uses MPEG-1 compression techniques to encode (1) To assign a code to represent data, such as a parts code. Contrast with decode. (2) To convert from one format or signal to another. See codec and D/A converter. (3) The term is sometimes erroneously used for "encrypt. any live video feed and distribute it to the network. Using a network protocol known as IP Multicast A one-to-many transmission of data over an IP network. It is used for a myriad of purposes including updating routers, announcing and discovering services and streaming media. IP multicast saves network bandwidth, because packets are transmitted as one stream over the backbone and only , it allows one or more receiving PCs to lock on to the source and display lival news to stock traders. The IP Multicast, high-quality video with fully synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. steand wide area networks." Among the companies interested in video-to-the-desktop is Siemens Nixdorf See Fujitsu Siemens. , which has partnered with Datafleet of the U.K. and Array Microsrt of Siemens Nixdorf Enterprise & Personal Com "Broadcaster" provides live video encoding and ontent creator that allows live video to be pre-encoded for later transmission or distribution and a scheduler that provides upcoming program information over the network. The system will broadcast from any composite or S-Video source, thus providing a turnkey system A complete system of hardware and software delivered to the customer ready-to-run. In other words, just "turn the key" and go.  A Turnkey Video System for transmitting existing television stations or pre-recorded video tape TV Broadcaster to transmit a single copy of theandwidth. It is also more efficient than broadcat NAB98 The Datafleet NetworkTV system will be demonstrated in the Array Microsystems booth (number M13827) at the NAB98 (National Association of Broadcasters) co distribution products for the finance and publuding VideoCut, which sold to many U.K. publishoard-level solutions are based on Array's high-performance patented VIDEOFLOW(r) architecture, which uses a vector data flow paradigm to provide unique advantages in term252 555 228; fax: +44 (0) 1252 555 327 , e-mail: Brian Calder, +44 (0) 181 424 8784 Wire's full file on the Internet |
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