SCTE Orlando 2004 Tec Expo: Why We Are Here
By Steve Rose
Sunday, June 13, 2004
SCTE Tec Expo 2004: Why We Are Here
Interactive Content Engines, LLC
Interactive Content Engines LLC Contact Information:
1088 Bishop Street, Suite 4100 Voice: (408) 876-4008 (VoIP)
Honolulu, HI 96813 Cell: (808) 280-8080
Fax: (808) 573-0744
www.interactivecontentengines.com steve@contentengines.com
Our purpose in being at the SCTE TecExpo is to find a manufacturing and support partner or licensee for our product. An ideal candidate would be a company that wants to enter or expand their presence in the emerging Everything On Demand market. The arrangement can be exclusive or nonexclusive, and we are open to any business structure alternative. Funding for ongoing R & D is not an issue.
Interactive Content Engines™ has been working on a highly scalable, remarkably inexpensive Interactive Broadband Server architecture and the corresponding software. We use commodity based hardware to help achieve the lowest possible cost per stream, in a design that helps insure lights-out reliability. Our project is nearing fruition, and is at a point where we can begin to demonstrate it. First deployments are about three months away.
Applications include Everything On Demand, Network Personal Video Recorder (NPVR), video home / business / community security, individually targeted advertising, data backup, and other applications where high composite bandwidth recording and playback is required.
Our product is based on intellectual property protected by three pending patents, and earlier work recognized by the Patent Office as prior art. Our IP protection does not depend on the manufacture of a specific part. Although proprietary components could be incorporated, it is not required by the design.
Design Characteristics:
- Scalable from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of streams
- High stream density, minimal server footprint
- Very high reliability allowing unattended operation
- Very low cost per stream fully leveraging commodity pricing
- Fully independent streams, each controllable individually
- Straightforward design – no tricks or shortcuts
- Independent output bit rates, broad encoding and transmission protocol compatibility (e.g. MPEG-2, MPEG-4, RTP, UDP, etc.)
- Interconnects to Cable QAM modulators or any IP network
- Designed to interoperate with business and network management systems
- Isochronous or non-isochronous content delivery (e.g. video or data)
