Starlight Networks maintains price/performance and open systems leadership; Starlight Networks' position on IBM and Sun Microsystems multimedia networking announcements this week.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 1995--Starlight Networks, Inc., the acknowledged leader in multimedia networking, furthers its advantages in price/performance and open systems leadership through key partnerships with 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) Corporation and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , as reflected in their announcements of multimedia networking solutions this week. The IBM announcement broadens Starlight's open systems approach in being able to support multiple 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. and network technologies. Customers distributing multimedia applications on their networks can now choose Starlight's solutions on IBM, Sun Microsystems and Intel-based server platforms and support DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Solaris and AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. clients on 10BaseT, 100BaseT, 100VG, FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. and Token-Ring networks. Starlight solutions provide the industry's best price/performance for multimedia networking. Starlight maintains that leadership with its upcoming release of StarWorks software that will include PCI-bus support. StarWorks-90M on an Intel-based PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). server will support 72 simultaneous MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 1 users with over 16 hours of video storage for a complete system price of less than $43,000. Starlight will continue to scale its software to provide the best price/performance based on standard industry server hardware. IBM's RS/6000 solution Starlight's recently announced StarWorks for AIX supports the new RS/6000 Model E20 announced today by IBM, enabling this platform as a multimedia server. Starlight's StarWorks multimedia networking software  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . manages the storage and distribution of multimedia across the network. StarWorks for AIX on IBM's new RS/6000 delivers a powerful, scalable UNIX-based multimedia server solution with a low price point that makes it cost-effective for distributing video-on-demand applications, both live broadcast and stored, across the enterprise in corporate, education and government settings. This is a particularly attractive solution for financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , retail and manufacturing businesses, which are strong industry segments for IBM and areas with strong demand for multimedia solutions. Starlight Networks has signed a worldwide development agreement for Starlight's StarWorks multimedia networking software supporting the AIX 4.x operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. on IBM's RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. System/6000 platforms. In addition, Starlight has licensed StarWorks for AIX to IBM. Sun Microsystems' Solaris solution Starlight Networks enjoys a strong sales and marketing and development relationship with Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC SMCC - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. ), supporting Sun's SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill servers running the Solaris operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . StarWorks for Solaris on the Sun SPARC servers, introduced in October 1994, delivers a powerful corporate video server with the storage and performance to deliver video-on-demand to hundreds of users in the enterprise. The announcement made today by Sun's Interactive Services Group provides a multimedia networking solution that is complementary to Starlight's. Both approaches support the distribution of multimedia applications to desktop users throughout the enterprise. Starlight delivers superior price/performance, support for both live multicasts and stored applications, and an open systems solution, which allows an organization to choose the best multimedia server and networking technology to meet its needs, or to use different server platforms in a heterogeneous environment. Starlight's multimedia networking software runs on IBM AIX 4.x on the RS/6000, Sun SPARC servers running Solaris; and Intel 80486 and Pentium processors. StarWorks running on any server platform supports DOS, Windows, Solaris and AIX clients running any video compression format including MPEG1, MPEG2, motion JPEG, Indeo, QuickTime and others. In addition, Starlight's StarWorks on the Intel PCI bus supports up to 90 Mbps, or about 75 users running MPEG. StarWorks on RS/6000 and SPARC multiprocessor servers will support hundreds of simultaneous users. Companies can use Starlight's software to support distributed multimedia applications over their existing 10BaseT Ethernet networks, 100BaseT, 100VG, Token Ring, FDDI, or ATM. Sun Microsystems provides centralized distribution of streaming data, supporting hundreds of streams of digital video that can be viewed over new, high-speed networks, such as ATM and 100BaseT. In a scenario combining the solutions from both Sun and Starlight, a corporation could use Sun's to stream its interactive multimedia training applications via T1 or T2 links to a local server installed with Starlight's multimedia networking software. Starlight's software on the local server then manages the storage of that multimedia data and transports it over an existing network to users at their desktops, giving them direct and immediate access to the application. Summary Starlight Networks will continue to drive price/performance on the leading server hardware including optimizing support for both IBM's and Sun's platforms, and expand its open systems approach in supporting the enterprise networking infrastructure with new developments such as RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. and ATM quality of service. About Starlight Networks Starlight Networks is the leader in providing multimedia services over enterprise networks with its StarWorks and StarWare video networking server software products. StarWorks and StarWare provide multimedia storage management and network delivery management functions to ensure reliable delivery of video and audio to the desktop over today's networks, including 10baseT, 100VG, Fast Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI and ATM. StarWorks' open systems approach supports all of the popular video formats and network operating sytems (such as LAN Manager, Banyan VINES, NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System , and NetWare) on PCs and Macintosh systems, as well as IBM RS/6000-based AIX operating environment and Sun Microsystems' SPARC-based Solaris 2.x operating environment. StarWare is a Novell NetWare-based video networking software solution. Starlight Networks is located at 205 Ravendale Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043; phone 415/967-2774; fax 415/967-0686; home page http://www.starlight.com. -0- Note to Editors: StarWorks and StarWare are registered trademarks of Starlight Networks, Inc. CONTACT: Starlight Networks Inc. Barbara Baker, 415/967-0574, ext. 305 or Lindsay PR Mary Lindsay, 408/984-7242 |
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