Delivery technologies

Integrated Delivery Technologies

The VideoExchange software suite includes XL Media Server. This parallelization solution enables tight integration, native support and efficient deployment of the latest popular media delivery technologies from Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Wowza, Icecast and Apache.

 

RTMP, RTSP, MMS, HTTP, VOD, LIVE, WEB, MOBILE

With VideoExchange all your users can stream on-demand and live in all popular media types: Flash, Windows Media, Silverlight, 3GPP Mobile, H.264, AAC, MP3 and QuickTime. Of course CDN web delivery is an integrated part of the service as well.

Stop wasting resources

Most CDNs rollout an Edge PoP with dedicated servers per delivery format. Ten web servers. Five Windows Media Servers. Five Flash Servers. These CDNs waste resources. A lot of idle servers. When Windows Media content is hot, five servers do all the work and fifteen other servers are idle. This architecture setup is inflexible, is expensive, and uses a lot of power.

No virtualization

Some CDNs try to densify their PoPs by using virtualization. A single server runs multiple operating systems. And per OS they run a delivery service. This brings more flexibility. The TCO goes down. But the performance goes down as well. The virtualization software and the OS overhead eat up twenty to thirty percent. That means 20-30% more servers, more rackspace and more power.


Parallelization

Our XL Media Server is an unique parallelization solution. It allows us to natively run multiple media delivery services in parallel on a single physical server: Apache, Windows Media Server, Wowza Media Server and Darwin Streaming Server for instance. 100% compliant, 100% performance, 100% secure, no conflicts. XL Media Server runs on Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server and most Linux and Unix distributions which you can mix in the CDN. 


Maximum density

On average we run 6 services natively, 100% compliant and unchanged (but tuned) per media delivery server. Without performance loss, without conflicts. This saves a factor 6 in software alone. You can get density wins of over a factor 12 with selected hardware. Imagine the cost and environment win for large scale CDNs with thousands of servers...

Maximum flexibility

Most CDNs claim to run thousands servers. But how many of them actually support Flash streaming? Do they really deploy QuickTime and 3GPP Streaming Servers on their edge servers? With XL Media Server, every delivery server in the CDN cloud can actually... deliver. Burst Flash streams today, burst web content tomorrow, without reinstalling servers.


Integrated support

Most CDNs started with web acceleration and later 'bolted on' streaming media support. This is reflected through their services: most CDNs cannot offer integrated delivery. You have to buy separate packages for web delivery, for VOD streaming, for live streaming. Each with a separate management interface.

 

VideoExchange is developed specifically for high quality media delivery: all popular media servers are fully integrated. You control live streams, vod streams and web downloads from a single, integrated interface.

 

XL Media Server turns regular web servers into powerful media delivery servers. and VideoExchange turns XL Media Server into a CDN cloud delivery resource.


XL Media Server

We have a separate website that further explains the working of our XL Media Server technology. It is not sold separately but is a standard part of our CDN application suite. Please see http://www.xlmediaserver.com