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Video-on-demand (VoD) service will allow customers to request that certain movies or television shows be played on their television sets or computers immediately, giving individuals direct access to the materials stored in a video server. The goal of this projec ....

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.... 30 Mbits/sec. Storage will consist of a set of four 18GB ULTRAWIDE SCSI-2 drives configured as a striped logical volume using standard Widows NT system tools. To further increase transfer speed, a 64MB hardware disk cache will also be used in the system. Arrays of optical drives will also be employed as secondary storage. The VoD Server will be linked to an array of Uninteruptable Power Supplies (UPS) capable of supplying 10 minutes of backup power. Similar servers were tested in this configuration with multiple client access and was able to saturate the network with 150 clients playing MPEG1 and 2 streams. The effective network usage was 25 ....