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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.
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