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Sigma Adds To Its REALmagic NetStream 2000
Sigma Designs is adding new features to its REALmagic NetStream 2000 card to shorten the evaluation cycle typically experienced by systems integrators. Bundling InfoValue's QuickVideo OnDemand and Media NOW!'s StreamRider IP/multicast software with NetStream 2000 will enable prospects to stream MPEG-2 video over Ethernet networks within one hour, dramatically shortening the ""proof of concept"" testing cycle. Sigma is demonstrating NetStream 2000 with the new software at mcast 2000, a streaming video show in San Francisco, California. The purpose of the additional software is to enable prospective customers to quickly create streaming video demonstrations using NetStream 2000. Previously, customers needed to obtain and integrate several separate products to stream video. By including the easy-to-install video-on-demand and IP multicast software, Sigma provides developers and information system (IS) departments with everything they need to build and test a complete streaming video system in about an hour. NetStream 2000 will ship with a three-user version of InfoValue Computing's QuickVideo OnDemand, the fastest video-on-demand software for standard Windows NT or Linux networks. Networked PCs with NetStream 2000 cards can open and play MPEG files stored on the InfoValue video server. The video can be viewed using InfoValue's QuickVideo Player or customized applications such as those used for training applications. Network administrators can create web pages that access each video file with a hyperlink. The IP/multicast software, Media NOW!'s StreamRider, is a robust client/server solution that makes it possible to ""broadcast"" one or more ""channels"" of rich MPEG video to every PC on a local area network (LAN), much like a TV network. IP/multicast ensures the same low network overhead whether one user or 100 users are viewing the broadcast. StreamRider can view live, IP/multicast MPEG-2 video delivered over an IP-based network by Media NOW!'s ThunderCast/IP server and is compatible with Minerva's VNP and Optivision's NAC encoders. ""Our video steaming software transforms ordinary PCs into video-on-demand and IP multicast servers,"" explained Monsong Chen, President of InfoValue Computing. ""Our products are used by corporations, educational institutions, and the U.S. military to achieve their missions by incorporating video streaming into their daily operations. Having our video-on-demand software bundled with Sigma's video decoder silicon is a natural fit.""