About the P2P Streaming Operation Solution for Education Purpose

　　Great importance have been attached to streaming broadband operation platforms and network TV applications recently by radio, film and television, telecommunication and numerous broadband operators which are regarded as the broadband value-added services with tremendous market and social values. FoceTech first launched the commercialized P2P broadband entertaining streaming operation platform in the fall of 2004, backed by Force's long-term technical accumulations in the broadband streaming industry and its strong R&D forces. As the industry expert, ForceP2P has been always committed to the sophistication and R&D of P2P underlying technology. The uniquely-created P2P Swarming Methodology technology pioneers the domestic market and breaks through the technical barrier which requires massive highly-configured servers and bandwidths for broadband streaming operation, really realizing the streaming operation which enables large-scale, concurrent, smooth video watching.

Overview of the ForceP2P Streaming Broadband Operation Platform for EducationPurpose

The ForceP2P Streaming Broadband Operation Platform for Education Purpose is a distributed framework over broadband IP network. The system generally includes the service application system (telecom carrier-grade P2P video on demand, P2P video live broadcasting, online interaction and literal bulletin, etc.), CMS content management system, operation support system (certification, authentication, billing, reporting and statistics, etc.) and so forth.

Architecture of the ForceP2PStreaming Broadband Operation Platform

　　Based on the overall framework structure of the system, the architecture of the ForceP2P streaming broadband operation platform is described as follows:

　　User's platform: the terminal layer of the ForceP2P streaming broadband operation platform.

　　Application support platform: the core layer of the ForceP2P streaming broadband operation platform, which enables the P2P VOD and live broadcasting applications, etc. Including streaming content collection, encoding, auditing, distribution, storage, cataloging and indexing, copyright protection (DRM) and content publishing, etc.

　　Operation support platform: the operation and management layer of the ForceP2P streaming broadband operation platform. Including user management, certification and billing management, system monitoring management, statistical reporting management, the 3 rd party operation management ,etc.;

　　Service platform: the service mode and realization layer of the ForceP2P streaming broadband operation platform. The available applications include video on-demand, digital TV live broadcasting, multimedia data broadcasting, interactive programs, video phone, Internet browsing as well as online education, etc.

　　DRM digital copyright protection: the service mode and realization layer of the ForceP2P Streaming Broadband Operation Platform. The available applications include video on-demand, digital TV live broadcasting, multimedia data broadcasting, interactive programs, video phone, Internet browsing as well as online education, etc.

　　Service platform: the service mode and realization layer of the ForceP2P streaming broadband operation platform. The available applications include video on-demand, digital TV live broadcasting, multimedia data broadcasting, interactive programs, video phone, Internet browsing as well as online education, etc.

Main features and advantages of the ForceP2P Streaming Broadband Operation Platform

　·Save servers and server bandwidth resources dramatically

　　Compared to the legacy non-commercial P2P streaming system, its more particular algorism makes it more accurate for file block requests and checking transmission, thus reducing invalid requests and files transmission dramatically and saving network bandwidth occupancy significantly. The ForceP2P live broadcasting/VOD streaming system single server can save the bandwidth resources by over 15 times than the legacy streaming system.

　·Fast response and quality playing

　　The ForceP2P live broadcasting and VOD feature fast response and quality video playing so that users hardly feel any delay when requesting for streaming services and the playing of sounds and videos keeps smooth and continuous all the time, without stop, jittering and discontinuity, etc. As a matter of fact: as long as customers are connected to broadband, we can provide smooth playing.

　·Widely supported formats

　　The system supports various mainstream media such as MPEG-1 (mpg, dat, mp3), MPEG-4 (avi, asf, wmv), REAL (rm, rmvb), REAL10, realizing the real full-compatibility.

　·Easy to manage