China Research Laboratory

Next Generation Video-on-Demand

        In recent years,Video-on-Demand services have blossomed, but current VOD systems consume a large amount of network bandwidth and expensive video servers, which has been the bottleneck to deploying VOD services. Now IBM China Research Laboratory developed an innovative system to solve above problems.

What does it do?

Next Generation Video-on-Demand (XVOD), developed by IBM China research Laboratory, is a system that uses a new control scheme to greatly improve its performance.

What’s New
In contrast to traditional VOD systems, XVOD has an innovative content delivery solution, which is derived from stream merging scheme based on multicast to reduce server bandwidth requirements.

Customer Usability
Broadband services are causing content on-demand markets to bloom. Applications such as health care, education and entertainment services are becoming crucial. These new applications are becoming increasingly more important and make it more crucial than ever for technology companies to break the traditional bottlenecks of network bandwidth and large-scale server costs to deliver digital content with copyright protection to the end users.

The multicast-based secure content delivery system developed by IBM China Research Laboratory is the perfect solution because it focuses on those thorny problems and provides an all-in-one solution to both efficient usage of hardware resources and secure usage of content resources. By using multicast-based stream merging technology, the content delivery system of XVOD can support large numbers of simultaneous subscribers, and it supports all VOD capabilities such as start, stop, fast forward and reverse with as few of the server and network resources as possible.

Customer Benefit

• Affordable infrastructure cost to provide VOD services to customers and employees.
• Content delivery with full protection

IBM Benefit

• Providing end-to-end VOD solution. Especially the content protection sub-system can protect the streaming content, which is complementary to EMMS.
• Targeting service providers and expanding the traditional DRM (Digital Rights Management) market area, as well as IPTV market.
• Dragging IBM server

Our Contact: Jie Xin Jiao (Jie Xin Jiao/IBM/China) and Tao Guo (Tao Guo/IBM/China)