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Streaming Media Hosting
You can accelerate your streaming in-house by purchasing an Auragan streaming acceleration appliance, or to conserve expenses, you can host streaming video with us. We use our own streaming server plug-ins to maximize the efficiency of the streaming servers on our own streaming network, called Advection.NET.
The picture below left shows Auragan's private in-house R&D lab in late 2001 and early 2002. We used this lab during the software development phases of our early streaming server optimization projects.
To embed these principles in an appliance you can use in your own network, Auragan spent 20 man years of development on our Locus acceleration appliance line. For the Locus 3s, we adapted our core acceleration engine to large file delivery. This appliance accelerates delivery of Windows Media, Real, and QuickTime streams, as well as HTTP or FTP file downloads and XML-driven peer-to-peer workgroup file management. Once the Locus 3s was finished, we believed the best proof of how well it worked would be to build our own "proof of concept" streaming network that took advantage of it. Using this appliance, we were able to standardize on a very small footprint (one quarter to one half rack) per remote data center, while still allowing us to push two gigabits of on-demand streams from each. Also using principles learned building networks for clients such as WWE, delivering billions of hits and hundreds of millions of ads a month, we built ourselves an automated Network Operations Center (image at right) to manage the distribution of staged content from our centralized storage to the various remote data centers around the world, monitor all the other networks, and collect status for comprehensive reporting. Today, the Locus 3s helps Advection.Net, Auragan's streaming network subsidiary, easily reach a capacity of a quarter million simultaneous streams at an extremely low overhead, while offering high-end quality-enhancing capabilities such as centralized file management and real-time load distribution among multiple data centers. To learn more, please contact Ron Jenkins, head of sales, or Michael Terretta, strategic development. The Advection.NET Servicemark is Copyright © 2002, Auragan and Auragan Logo Copyright © 2001 |
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Before founding Auragan, we had already built one of the highest quality and highest performance streaming networks around. As early as 1998, we were delivering millions of commerce-enabled streams from data centers around the globe. That network cost millions to develop, a staff of dozens, and hundreds of thousands a month to maintain. Based on that experience, we went back to the drawing board, applied all the principles we'd learned, and came up with a new approach to large file delivery that would allow customers to serve even higher volumes much more efficiently.