Blackwave for Content Aggregators
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As content libraries grow and change, Blackwave offers the perfect solution for affordable and economical scaling.
Content aggregators, as well as media and entertainment companies, are witnessing a global transition toward online consumption of content. As the number of titles grows exponentially, individual title demand continues to fluctuate widely resulting in complex and costly title management and provisioning.
Blackwave helps you to overcome your biggest title provisioning challenges:
- Automatically manage unpredictable workloads as demand changes across the lifecycle of a particular title.
- Support very large title sets.
- Easily integrate with existing content management systems with protocols such as NFS, CIFS, and FTP.
- Isolate namespaces from different content providers – sort reports by namespace for billing, access logs, etc.
- Quickly and affordably scale as content libraries grow while reducing your GB storage cost. Through Blackwave’s patent-pending algorithms for disk allocation and performance management, you actually save disk space as you increase performance.
Blackwave offers the perfect solution if:
- Your video library exceeds 10 terabytes, and your required delivery capacity exceeds 5 gigabits per second, OR
- You need more than 3 gigabits per second or more and growing, OR
- You’re delivering 1Mbps streams or higher to an audience of 5,000 or greater
- You need to deliver multiple streaming protocols from one common infrastructure
If any of the above conditions apply to your business, consider talking to our team members. Your savings could be substantial.
Resilient grid architecture
Blackwave leverages a grid architecture for resilience. It uses intelligent content placement to minimize the footprint and associated operating costs of traditional storage systems. The system can be easily upgraded for higher capacity or content delivery speed.