Sun Microsystems expands Sun Streaming System

April 22, 2008 – Sun Microsystems has announced that it has expanded its Sun Streaming System product portfolio to create an IPTV platform that can scale from 100 to 160,000 simultaneous streams.

Sun has added new server and storage platforms for small to mid-size streaming of television and IP-based video.  The company also announced Sun Streaming Software Release 2, which leverages the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), enabling service provider customers to scale from 500 to over 1.5mn subscribers, and from 200 to more than 1mn hours of content.

“The Sun Streaming System is the only streaming product family on the market today to offer customers both disruptive economics and non-disruptive growth at nearly any scale point - giving customers the ability to evolve their networks and services without the pain of major retrofits or integrations,” said Graham Lovell, Senior Director, storage servers and IPTV for Sun Microsystems.  “Sun’s innovation makes us uniquely positioned to serve the needs of IPTV service providers and brings consumers the latest video technologies such as personalised video and social networking.”

Later this year, Sun Streaming System will also support carrier-grade Netra x64 servers, Netra ATCA x64 blade servers, and options to include flash-based storage from Sun.