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February 03, 2006
Broadbus makes solid-state VOD strides
Last week we wrote about Swedish video-on-demand server startup Edgeware comparing its stage of development to Broadbus, concluding that the Nordic startup was set to give the more established and better funded US-based video on demand server manufacturer a run for its money. It turns out Broadbus is a lot further ahead than we thought, well beyond the prototype phase as suggested in the post.
This is not a new Sub-Zero fridge. Its the Broadbus' B-1 and it's coming to Europe.
Broadbus began shipping the B-1 Video server (the unit with DRAM storage) in the second quarter of 2004, according to Jim Owens, director of marketing and communications for the Boxborough-based firm. "Since then we’ve had more than 60 revenue-generating (real, live) deployments worldwide," he writes. The news, directly from Broadbus, makes clear it has a lead with solid state-based VOD servers. It also makes clear that the uptake of VOD by telecommunications operators and broadcasters is real this time.
We remember the VOD hype in the nineties. Back then it received probably 1000 times more analyst and press coverage, with zero corresponding commercial deployments.
Read- Edgeware versus Broadbus
Posted on February 3, 2006 04:32 AM | Posted to Hardware | Permalink
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