Beyond streaming: managing broadband video networks

Video streaming is quickly becoming a mainstream technology deployed in a variety of applications and markets. As services grow to encompass larger organizations or user communities, single video servers evolve quickly and become "islands" of video servers that are unmanageable  from an operational point of view. Existing solutions in the market allow video servers to be managed individually from a central location.

Whitepaper by Kasenna Inc

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However, issues involved in routing content, setting up and managing workflows and content-management call for a different class of solution – it calls for the construction and management of a "video network." A Managed Video Network takes unifies islands of video servers into a seamless, logical entity by using an infrastructure designed to manage content, workflow, distribution and administration.