The ForceP2P streaming platform is a suite of streaming operation platform integrating ForceP2P Live Broadcasting and ForceP2P VOD into one, designed for offering broadband users the large-scale streaming application solutions, including large-scale P2P live broadcasting and video on demand.

The ForceP2P streaming system comprises the following components:

Figure I: The logic Architecture Diagram of the Telecom Carrier-Grade ForceP2P Streaming System

　　Independent of any specific hardware equipment, the ForceP2P streaming operation platform incorporates content collection and editing, cataloging and storing, copyright protection, auditing and delivery, network distribution, certification and playing functions. By enablement of collection and editing, delivery, management and billing, etc. of streaming programs, it may offer the copyright protection for the digital media programs through the stream ciphering (DRM) technology; it supports high quality MPEG4 programs and powerful content delivery; it empowers the large-scale concurrent-stream telecom-grade P2P VOD and P2P TV live broadcasting applications, featuring outstanding scalability, flexibility and reliability.  

　　The purpose of the ForceP2P streaming operation platform is to enable the management processes for program content including program collection, editing, production, setup, auditing, testing, storage and delivery, etc., and enable user management, certification/authorization/billing functions, etc. so as to charge the service fees from consumers. In addition, to enable network management, security guarantee and operation support functions, it can offer users an open and centralized streaming operation support system, integrate with all broadband operators'(such as China Telecom, China Unicom, Cable TV networks, etc.) existing streaming service management systems reasonably, deliver program content to final users acceptably , leverage content providers' advantages in program and broadband operators' existing sophisticated operation systems and their advantages in massive customers, and create a win-win-win P2P streaming broadband operation platform, where broadband operators, TV stations, and final users all benefit.

Features and advantages of the ForceP2P streaming platform:

　　The ForceP2P streaming operation platform have more advantages in commercial applications:

    ·From the very beginning of the self-dependent design and R&D of the ForceP2P streaming operation platform in 2004, it has been positioned as a suite of commercial streaming operation platform solution designed for P2P streaming commercial users which supports multi-role cross-platform operation. Therefore, from the birth of the product, it has inherently addressed all needs necessary for operation and commercial solutions.

    ·Based on the core P2P technology of the software, the Force Commercial P2P network adopts the more unique node assignment policy and the well-proven “Node Lookup At Nearest” algorism, enabled to position the nodes in mesh networks more accurately.

    ·Regarding the core P2P technology of the software, the ForceP2P-driven commercial network adopts the more unique node assignment policy and the excellent “Node Lookup At Nearest” algorism, enabled to position the nodded in mesh networks more accurately.

     For the considerations of the benefits to the operators such as China Telecom and China Unicom, etc., the Force Commercial P2P live broadcasting and P2P VOD platform adopts the unique junk packets processing algorism customized for commercial customers, dramatically reducing the enormous bandwidth occupancy due to mass generation of P2P streaming network transmissions, more suitable for commercial users' operational needs, thus bringing a peace mind on bandwidth occupancy.

    ·It's a complete suite of system solution for P2P live broadcasting and P2P VOD fully based on UPD protocol transmission, backed by P2P streaming Swarming Methodology transmission, in light of the actual situation in China that there are quite a lot of intranet users. It allows more than 90% of intranet users to upload and contribute torrent files in the most cost-effective and active manner and allows more than 90% of the nodes which join the ForceP2P network transmission to leverage the upstream and downstream bandwidth cost-effectively and make the file block request and checking transmission more accurate, thus reducing the invalid request and file transmission dramatically, saving the idle occupancy of network bandwidth significantly, guaranteeing the low bandwidth occupancy and low resource consumption in live streaming and streaming on-demand, and ensuring the high resolution and high smoothness of transmission.

    ·On the aspect of the overall system management and ease-to-use, the Force Commercial P2P live broadcasting and P2P VOD platform integrates production on background, delivery and management into one, and performs management and updating online at anytime and anywhere. The sophisticated billing policy includes multi-role and multi-user billing auditing management, providing a tailored service operation and billing management platform for the operators, CP and SP so that they can deploy such services at any time. The modular design and the complete commercial application-oriented development allow the P2P advantages to be embedded into the applications in all other industries flexibly and easily.

    ·It saves the investments in servers and server bandwidth resources dramatically in that the ForceP2P live broadcasting streaming operation platform single server can save the bandwidth resources by over 15 times than the traditional streaming system and the P2P live broadcasting single-server is usually capable of supporting 20,000 online users on a single live broadcasting channel; the ForceP2P VOD streaming operation platform single server can save the bandwidth resources by over 5-8 times than the traditional streaming system and the P2P VOD single-server generally can support 1000-2500 online users for 1000 movies at 400kbps code rate.

    ·It enables point-to-point information communication between users and the live broadcasting and VOD interaction between users. It completely liberates from the centrally-controlled legacy streaming, lowering the threshold in technical application and enabling the interactive live broadcasting and interactive VOD which are hardly possible in legacy streaming operation platforms.

    ·It adopts the multi code stream self-adaptive design, allowing the system to select different code streams for playing automatically based on the actual network bandwidths of different users'.

    · It completely liberates from the centrally-controlled Media table in that the channel list is acquired from the server in real time, which is updated at any time; the data is cached in memory but not in hard drive, thus guaranteeing no damage to hard drive.

    ·It supports the multimedia data in multiple formats including asf, wmv, rm, rmvb, mp3, etc. and supports various common stream transmission formats for multiple multi-level protocols including: http, https, mms, rtsp, etc.

    ·It supports the deployment of multi-point live broadcasting, recorded broadcast, remote delivery applications, etc.

    ·It allows to add literals, pictures and audio/video ads, etc. in the audio/video files.

    ·It can offer the ForceP2P-based DRM copyright protection for audio/video programs, i.e., while a file is downloaded to the local computer, it can not be played before certificated.