Concurrent Announces New Content Storage Solutions

June 22, 2007

Source: Concurrent

Concurrent, a worldwide leader of on-demand technology that is shaping the future of television, announced today the launch of the MediaCache 1000, the first in a line of non-volatile flash SSD (solid state drives) storage products. The MediaCache, along with Concurrent's full MediaHawk line of products and services, will be on display in booth 649 at the Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE) Cable-Tec Expo, at the Orange County Convention Center, in Orlando, Florida, June 19-22, 2007.

"The MediaCache 1000 is an important first step towards addressing the future storage requirements of VOD systems," said Bob Chism, CTO of Concurrent. "We believe that the VOD market will continue to move away from spinning media to solid state drives. The launch of this product and the development of this product line once again prove that Concurrent is a technology leader looking far ahead of the competition."

Concurrent's MediaHawk(TM) VOD platform optimizes the price and performance of the VOD system by leveraging a multi-level caching strategy that is matched to the respective storage technology. This strategy allows Concurrent to provide the ideal combination of high performance and reliability, with a scalable solution that makes economic sense. The new MediaCache 1000 leverages the reliability and throughput density of SSD; its nonvolatility allows it to retain memory even during sudden power outages, providing three times the reliability of traditional disk-based storage, while supporting over five times the streaming throughput. It uses 45% less power and, like other products in the MediaHawk line, utilizes commercial off-the-shelf hardware. Just like DRAM SSDs, flash SSDs are extremely fast since these devices have no moving parts, eliminating seek time, latency and other electro-mechanical delays inherent in conventional disk drives.

Concurrent has already trialed and received some orders for the MediaCache 1000, with plans for full product availability in the third calendar quarter.

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