Concurrent’s MediaHawk VX is the world’s first unified video delivery solution designed expressly for commercial video applications. MediaHawk VX, Concurrent’s sixth generation video solution, enables a wide variety of revenue-producing video applications that can be delivered to any device, anytime, over any network. It combines the strength of Concurrent’s Emmy® award-winning video to TV solution with new features that extend Concurrent’s tradition of high-performance video and unparalleled quality of service to PC’s, mobile devices and other consumer electronics devices. Over 2 million streams have been deployed worldwide using Concurrent’s MediaHawk video solutions. With the introduction of MediaHawk VX, Concurrent builds on our leadership position by offering unprecedented platform flexibility, scalability, reliability, density and power efficiency.
Platform Flexibility
MediaHawk VX supports video delivery over managed or unmanaged networks to a wide variety of consumer electronic devices including televisions, PCs and mobile devices. It is designed around independently scalable software modules that can be applied in concert to support a broad array of deployment scenarios and commercial video applications:
- Delivery to any device from one common server
- Support for TV, PC’s, mobile devices and other consumer electronics devices
- Integrated RTSP streaming, HTTP progressive download, MS smooth streaming, Adobe Flash and Apple HTTP adaptive bit rate streaming
- Integrated on-demand transcoding
- Support for Multi-screen commercial video applications
- Video-On-Demand (SD, HD, 3-D)
- Time-shifted TV and network DVR
- Broadcast video
- Advanced advertising
- Software Solution – hardware agnostic
- 100% Commercial off-the-shelf hardware
- 100% Solid-state storage or high capacity HDD options
- Support for open standards
- Next Generation On-Demand (NGOD)
- Interactive Services Architecture (ISA)
- Integrated with Concurrent, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Seachange, Time Warner Mystro and a variety of homegrown Business Management Solutions
- Support for video delivery over managed and unmanaged Networks
- Designed for CDN, Hybrid-Library, centralized and distributed architectures
- 100% Solid-state edge server configuration options
Scalability
MediaHawk VX features independently scalable software modules for various video-related functions. Each software module scales linearly without any performance impact to other software modules. This modular structure enables the MediaHawk architecture to more precisely align and adapt to the requirements of the specific application.
- Independent scaling of ingest, storage, transcoding and streaming capacities
- Multiple storage options enable terabytes to multi-petabyte capacities
- Available in large and small market system configurations
Reliability
MediaHawk VX offers true end-to-end resiliency. Features such as Concurrent’s Gatling Resilient Streaming™ prevent session or stream interruptions from occurring as a result of a server, network link or power failure by automatically routing active sessions to healthy components. This ensures a seamless subscriber experience.
- End-to-end resiliency
- Gatling Resilient Streaming featuring automated stream recovery
- Ingest resiliency featuring automated recovery
- RAID-protected storage featuring fast-write technology in support of time-shifted video
- Resilient interconnects with multi-path support
- Support for any-stream anywhere configuration
Density
The MediaHawk VX solution is paired with commercially available hardware in order to offer industry-leading performance density. Performance of the MediaHawk VX solution is up to four times that of prior server generations on a per rack unit basis.
- Up to 20 Gbps (4800 SD Streams*) of output per rack unit
- Up to 20,000 simultaneous connections per rack unit
- Industry-leading raw ingest capacity with support for thousands of simultaneous network DVR recording sessions per rack unit
- Industry-leading storage density up to 1 PB per standard rack
*3.75 Mbps standard definition video
Power Efficiency
Concurrent’s ultra-high stream density leads to eco-friendly power efficiency figures. In addition, since MediaHawk VX is a software solution, it can take advantage of periodic green technology advances in the commercial hardware market in order to provide continuous improvement over time.
- Less than .07 watts per stream
- Software leverages COTS hardware power efficiency improvements