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For Converged Networks, It's All In the Delivery

May 1, 2003
By Sean Doherty

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Digital Convergence Product of the Year

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MGW 2400, Optibase, (800) 451-5101, (650) 230-2400. www.optibase.com

Product of the Year

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Our digital convergence winner streams live, on-demand video over IP for corporate communications and training applications. It uses Microsoft Windows Media Technology (WMT) and leverages Windows Media servers without added configuration. With external disk storage and two 10/100-Mbps NICs--one for streaming services, one for management--the appliance supports as many as six encoding modules for input from analog audio sources, S-video and composite (NTSC/PAL) video sources, and SDI (Serial Digital Input). With the maximum number of modules installed, the MGW 2400 encodes and streams as many as six live WMT channels for delivery over UDP and HTTP in unicast or multicast. The management console, the SNMP-based Element Management System (EMS), commands encoding modules and sets up streams using a default 44.1-KHz sample rate for audio signaling and a maximum 2-Mbps encoding rate while supporting screen resolutions from 160x112 to 384x288. The MGW 2400 can deliver low-bandwidth streams over slow WAN links or DVD-quality video over the enterprise LAN. And you can adjust the bit rate dynamically to reduce bandwidth requirements as more users access a unicast stream or join a multicast broadcast.