Content providers can store and deliver videos in multiple protocols from a single platform with the help of Blackwave’s newly released Blackwave R6, an advanced internet video storage and delivery system. Blackwave also announced that its first customer deployment is with CDNetworks.

 

Blackwave builds storage and delivery infrastructure specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of Internet Video distribution.  

 

The new Blackwave R6 can reduce capital and operational costs of delivering high quality videos across the net. It simplifies the process required to make large libraries of video content available to massive numbers of simultaneous viewers.

 

Unlike other video delivery systems the R6 platform does not need to maintain dedicated storage and server implementations for each kind of delivery. With the R6, service providers can now simultaneously deliver high numbers of concurrent streams in each protocol. This minimizes the infrastructure required to meet the needs of consumers desiring video in the most convenient format for their playback devices.

 

The R6 device can deliver video through HTTP, Windows Media Server, and Flash from the same back-end appliance and is claimed to take up only half a rack of space, but can deliver ten times the performance of standard systems. The increased capacity was possible because of the innovations at the software level which generates significantly higher read rates than standard SATA drives. A standard disk reading data at 50Mbps can deliver at most 50 one megabit streams, versus 500 from the same disk in a Blackwave system.

 

Blackwave stated that providers can get solid state level performances from commodity drives itself which in turn keeps the hardware costs down.

 

"The Blackwave system has the robustness to handle the initialization of a request and expedite delivery, providing a sub-1.5 second time-to-video for the viewer," said Michael Kuperman, director of global operations for CDNetworks, in a statement. "With the Blackwave R6, we are able to rapidly and cost-effectively scale our implementation of the Adobe Flash Media Server 3 software distribution network in support of our growing customer base."

 

Blackwave CEO Bob Rizika stated that R6’s simple and purpose-built infrastructure offers content providers the ability to store and deliver videos at lower costs. The company even has plans to build solutions that would offer publishers a chance to profitably make more content available wherever consumers wanted it.

 

Blackwave had recently tapped former EMC (News - Alert) Centera CTO to lead product innovation and technology development and expanded its core management team with two new senior executive appointments.