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LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it is expanding its Sun(TM) Streaming System product portfolio, creating the only IPTV platform that can scale seamlessly and cost-effectively from 100 to 160,000 simultaneous streams. Joining the industry’s highest performance Sun Fire(TM) X4950 Streaming Switch are new server and storage platforms for small to mid-scale streaming of television and IP-based video. Sun also announced Sun(TM) Streaming Software Release 2, which leverages the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS), enabling customers to scale economically from 500 to more than 1.5 million subscribers, and from 200 to over 1 million hours of content.

Check out this artilce which illustrates the demand from new media applications/rich media content or even the likes of TV/movies on deman, can be a driver for more infrastructure, bandwidth, and storage. This article in particular discusses Sun’s streaming system for IPTV, it does sound cool, it’s interesting to read what technologies they are using for their solution. I wonder what will change as we go to HD content?

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