"Products for the Broadcast Industry"

EOD

Obstacles to EOD

• Capturing live content requires real-time processing
• Storage costs: extensive video libraries must be kept on-line
• Switching costs: video must be switched from storage to customer premises
• Per-user costs: each customer requires a VOD-enabled set-top box
• Bandwidth utilization: physical media is shared amongst many customers (Cable) or has limited throughput (DSL)

Architected Solutions

• Pre-VOD
• VOD
• EOD

Real-Time Capture

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Disk Storage

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Switching Costs

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Set-top Box

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Shared Bandwidth

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Last Mile: Today

Separate paths support broadcast feeds, stored Video on Demand content, and Web support. This leads to a proliferation of standards which must be supported by the settop, and consumes considerable bandwidth.

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Last Mile: Video On Demand

The incremental step of implementing ZPEG storage but operating it in MPEG-2 playback mode supports existing customers transparantly; new customers may be enabled with inexpensive ZPEG settops instead of more expensive general-algorithm solutions.

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Last Mile : Everything On Demand

A ZPEG-only plant becomes a viable strategic long-term solution, delivering content for 10% the cost of conventional solutions. 

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