The Benefits And Challenges Of Deploying Large Regional VOD Asset Libraries. (2008)
By Michael W. Pasquinilli, Sunil Nakrani, Jaya Devabhaktuni, Concurrent Computer Corporation
Many of the domestic video-on-demand (VOD) systems in service today are being upgraded to ten thousand hours of storage. Much of this storage is for traditional “on-demand” assets. There is also an industry trend towards recording an increasing amount of broadcast content onto the VOD system. The cost of deploying these very large encode, ingest and storage libraries into each VOD system may prevent the launch of these new services. This paper discusses the economical benefits and technical challenges of introducing regional asset libraries that can support multiple VOD systems. The relationship between network bandwidth and asset caching will also be explored.
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