Calliope: A Distributed, Scalable Multimedia Server
Andrew Heybey, Mark Sullivan, and Paul England
Bell Communications Research
Morristown, NJ 07960
Abstract
Calliope is a distributed multimedia server constructed from personal
computers. Preliminary performance measurements indicate that
Calliope can be scaled from a single PC producing about 22 MPEG-1
video streams to hundreds of PCs producing thousands of streams. The
system can store both variable- and constant-rate video and audio
encodings and can deliver them over any network supported by the
underlying operating system. Calliope is cost-effective because it
requires only commodity hardware and portable because it runs under
Unix.
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