Overview of ForceTech Cloud Video Streaming solution
With the booming of Internet applications and entertainment electronics, it comes with a ubiquitous era of streaming multimedia over the Internet: anyone can access the media content on the Internet anywhere, anytime, for any purpose. ForceTech provides complete suite of turnkey solutions for 3 SCREEN (PC, TV, mobile) media streaming system in supporting on-demand streaming services like media content distribution, live video broadcast and video on demand (VOD).
With the emerging of cloud computing paradigm, ForceTech is now releasing the cloud media streaming turnkey solution to help operators to build media streaming platform make the video in the cloud, so that end users can satisfy their varieties of streaming demands as long as it can access to Internet.
In such cloud streaming data Centre, with the building of hardware, software and platform, different terminal users can obtain QoS-guaranteed streaming services on demand through unified web access. The multiple streaming service support enables live video broadcasting, video on demand and video downloading services. The multiple user service support enables users to either access the streaming service on the platform, or distribute streaming service through the platform.
With efficient server virtualization and organization, high quality videos without discontinuity are guaranteed. 3-screen user accesses are supported from the full video distribution lifecycle.
Benefits
ForceTech decide to recommend the following equipment for overseas Internet TV platform turnkey solution after reviewing the customer demands. Customer does not have to spend months to integrate an IPTV solution from multiple vendors, because ForceTech IPTV solution is an end-to-end turnkey solution.
• Compatibility-Supporting most of the major streaming media formats like wmv, h.264, etc. Supporting mms, file, http, and rtsp protocols.
• Multiple Service-The concept of cloud streaming targets at providing the video over the cloud as a service, so that end users can satisfy their varieties of streaming demands as long as it can access to Internet
• Users of different terminal can obtain the same high quality of service, with no special software or hardware required to enable streaming media
• Internet content providers can stream their videos to end users, by replying on public cloud streaming platform, instead of building their own streaming media server.
• ICPs then can share the cost and become rather scalable in serving users
• Profit Earning Model
• Content providers can avoid capital expenditure (CapEx) on hardware, software, and services, but instead renting the service of a cloud streaming platform operator only for what they use.
• Consumption is usually billed on a utility (resources consumed, like storage size, Internet bandwidth) or subscription (time-based) basis with little or no upfront cost.
• Multiple Supports-In such cloud streaming data Centre, with the building of hardware, software and platform, different terminal users can obtain QoS-guaranteed streaming services on demand through Internet.
• The multiple terminal support enables PC end, IPTV STB, mobile phone, PDA,etc., to access the cloud streaming platform through unified web access.
• The multiple streaming service support enables live video broadcasting, video on demand and video downloading services.
• The multiple user service support enables users to either access the streaming service on the platform, or distribute streaming service through the platform.
• Valuable-ForceStream media streaming turnkey solutions enable much higher quality with decreased deployment cost.
• Reliability-ForceStream system has strong fault tolerance and good resilience. Software and hardware is able to continue uninterrupted work long hours, and cannot affect the functioning of the system in time of module online testing, update, load. It also adopts mature and reliable technology and architecture, and use quality assurance system products.
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