· Capacity - 25 feature-length movies

· Serve 4 different movies simultaneously

As previously discussed in the cost estimate, the Video on Demand (VoD) Server will be based on a multi-processor x86 architecture. The VoD server with all elements described in the cost estimate (excluding RAID level 4 support) will be implemented on the Windows NT operating system running on a 500MHz dual-processor Pentiumc III Xeon system with 512MB of memory. The configuration will consist of two Ethernet interfaces connected to an Ethernet switch on a T3 backbone, providing a peak network bandwidth of 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 too

In order to increase the bandwidth from the I/O subsystem, asynchronous I/O requests are issued. Thus, anticipated demands for data can be queued to disk so that the data is available when it is needed by the clients. This pre-fetching of data before it is needed results in seamless flow of data and the effect of jitter observed by the client.

The methology of video data transport is a crucial factor in the efficiency of the system. Below I will discuss the following methods of video data transport and the method which I have selected to be used by the server.

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