Re: video servers/information highway

In article <2nab6b$pe2_at_agate.berkeley.edu>, Eddy Yu <eyu_at_soda.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>I am currently looking for articles or papers that deal with
>the information highway. Actually, I'm not quite sure what the
>subject would fall under, but I'm basically looking for information
>about databases being used as video servers. I think Oracle released
>a producat that will do something like that. Basically, it would
>allow a user to download it to be viewed at his own time at home.
>So I can watch the 10:00 news at what ever time I choose. Are
>there any resources that I can refer to get more information
>on this subject? I am trying to compile a research paper on this
>technology and am having a slightly difficult time since this
>is a rather recent thing. Please email me any information you
>might have or respond here.
>
>Thanks
>
>eyu_at_soda.berkeley.edu
>
Check out an article in Fortune Magazine Sep/Oct/Nov 93 which features Larry Ellison on the cover.Larry Ellison is the chairman of Oracle Corp. This gives some info about what u are talking about but at a very laymanish level. The product of Oracle which does the above is called Oracle Media Server 1.0. Talk to Oracle and get a brochure on this. This would be a good starting point.
Oracle Media server is available on NCUBE . Why NCUBE?Oracle partly owns NCUBE :-) . Another reason is the data throughput in such video servers is so high that it was felt that an architecture like NCUBE could handle it. However it will be a matter of time before it is ported on other machines. Hope this helps.

Thanks and Regards
Mahesh Vallampati
M.S. In EE
Dept.of Electrical Engineering,
Texas A & M University.
Ph:(409)845-6189
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