GhostDoggy
Senior member
Let's say you are trying to run a VOD system that is connected via either a co-lo solution or optical link. This eliminates the necessary discussion of bandwidth out of the servers. If the solution is to serve up to 10,000 movie titles and one i figuring ~5GB/title, then we are talking about 50TB of storage, 25GB if converted to a more efficient video codec.
While there are storage solutions for generating 25TB of disk storage, how does this take into account, say, 5,000 simultaneous playback streams that would represent 5,000 customers accessing titles (files)? Are disk controller cards capable of that kind of data bandwidth to get the amount of data-read onto the network transport?
Using variable bit rates, let's presume the average title has an average of 6Mbps streaming rate which will be needed to be taken from the disk. That's 30Gbps worth of storage read utilization.
As such, I am curious how the VOD solution providers handle this real-world utilization potential vs. the number of titles a VOD server farm would carry.
While there are storage solutions for generating 25TB of disk storage, how does this take into account, say, 5,000 simultaneous playback streams that would represent 5,000 customers accessing titles (files)? Are disk controller cards capable of that kind of data bandwidth to get the amount of data-read onto the network transport?
Using variable bit rates, let's presume the average title has an average of 6Mbps streaming rate which will be needed to be taken from the disk. That's 30Gbps worth of storage read utilization.
As such, I am curious how the VOD solution providers handle this real-world utilization potential vs. the number of titles a VOD server farm would carry.
