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Home > Applications > Network Services > Voice and Video Messaging ApplicationsVoice and Video MessagingWhite Papers
Scalable, Standards-Based IP Media Servers: Driving the Shift from Proprietary Architectures PDF May, 2005 - The market for IP media servers is shifting away from proprietary hardware toward standards-based server platforms running media processing software. Carriers can now deploy open system-based servers running powerful and robust media processing software and achieve levels of scalability not even dreamed of just a few years ago. With the advent of more powerful server hardware that can handle the performance and scale required for carrier-class media processing, service providers can now capitalize on the many advantages of carrier-class, software-based IP media servers that run on open systems server platforms so they can efficiently manage capital and operating costs while deploying flexible, scalable and highly available multimedia services. The author will provide a historical perspective on IP media server evolution to open systems platforms, and offer insights learned from the market evolution for storage systems, database servers,supercomputers and Web servers. The author will explain that while proprietary servers were necessary for the initial introduction of IP media servers, open systems hardware, operating systems, applications and tools now provide everything needed to cost-effectively provide highly scalable and reliable IP media services. Software is the differentiator, and the author will highlight the limitations of proprietary media servers, discuss the impact of Moore's Law, and explain the advantages of open systems servers in terms of CAPEX, OPEX, feature velocity, scalability and reliability. PDF
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