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StreamingCulture's® main encoding lab is located at the New Media Lab, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, a state-of-the-art facility for new media, Internet, and information technology research. Designed as a dynamic laboratory that facilitates the use of new media and high-end visualization techniques in research and development projects, the New Media Lab is a leader in collaborative projects between educational, government, and private sector concerns. The lab's high-end facilities, computer graphic, and web authoring workstations, Media 100 digital video editing system make it a place where breakthrough ideas for the immediate future are encouraged and realized.

StreamingCulture's® main data center is located in a carrier grade facility, with one hop connectivity to all major Internet backbones. The present bandwidth capacity of the facility is 100mb/s; an upgrade to 1gb/s connectivity is planned. Aggressive bandwidth monitoring and proactive capacity increases insure that spikes in client media access are handled effortlessly. Redundant Compaq Proliant servers running Linux 2.4, FreeBSD and Windows 2000 deliver media in all major formats. Media are centrally managed, cached, and replicated. Cisco switches and routers connect the server farm to the Internet and northeast U.S. ISP POPs. Connectivity to Asian, European and Latin American backbones is peered on OC48 backbones. The facility is protected by multiple redundant power generators, sophisticated environmental protection systems, and rigorous physical security.

Elise Bernhardt
Marc A. Scorca
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