Fastweb has ordered BitBand servers with a total of 100 Terabytes of storage attached, to upgrade its IPTV services in Italy.
The new 880 BitBand VoD servers will be attached to servers throughout Fastweb’s points of presence in Italy, one of the most advanced IPTV networks in the world.
The BitBand Vision 880 servers use BitBand’s new high performance streaming technology called X:Stream, which offers 7 Gbps streaming output, and each stores up to 10,000 hours of H.264 SD Video.
BitBand has the bulk of the distributed VoD server business from Fastweb, with some of the business shared with VoD rival Kasenna. Fastweb was BitBand’s first ever IPTV customer and it built its distributed architecture that keeps central copies of films and distributes the most popular ones dynamically to edge appliance servers for customer delivery. The system has been a model for handling VoD since it was first built in 2000.