HDTV-IP video server “XMS” (i-Visto XMS)

Overview
A typical XMS-2 system configuration for a broadcasting station is illustrated in this figure.

An “XMS-2” in the broadcasting station stores video clips from an outside location, affiliated broadcasting station
and external editing studio through an external IP network.
Video clips are transferred either as a file or a stream.
Stored video clips are transferred to an editing studio and edited in this studio.
Edited video clips are played out for television program and archived.
Furthermore, the clips are transferred to affiliated broadcasting stations for other television programs.


XMS System Configuration for Broadcast

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Features
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For broadcasting:

Remarkably scalable high performance system, with the flexibility afforded of a PC-cluster architecture. architecture allows Broadcast industry users to change the number of RAIDs and PCs in the cluster according to individual performance requirements.


For example, in a 16-PC configuration:

A 40-Gbps transmission rate corresponding to 26 uncompressed HDTV streams simultaneously InfiniBand technology and it's Remote-DMA transmission technique used as the interconnection network. The RAID system used for storing video files is The distributed RAID technique. This technique equalizes disk access loads and improves the scalability of the system size. Significant cost-effectiveness and low internal data transmission overhead. PC/RAID vendor independent.

Example Applications

Specifications