ATLANTA: Time Warner Cable, New York, has agreed to license a new disaster recovery system from Scientific-Atlanta (SA) that will enable the company to minimise the impact of service interruptions for consumers; and to upgrade to its cable system while using its backup system to provide continuous programming.
The backup recovery system is scheduled to be ready by early 2004.
A company release explains that the disaster recovery system is an integrated solution that uses redundant, external servers that are in a TWC remote facility instead of being co-located in the Manhattan head-ends.
This separation provides greater protection for TWC’s ability to deliver programming and helps to assure a rapid, transparent switchover to the backup equipment. The redundant servers will monitor the activities of TWC Manhattan’s primary SA Digital Network Control System (DNCS).
As the Manhattan DNCS is updated, the backup system will synchronize its content to match that on the primary DNCS to deliver fast, accurate restoration of service.
The release quoted Larry Bradner, senior vice-president and president of SA’s SciCare(tm) Broadband Services Group as saying, “This recovery solution embodies our philosophy for assisting the MSOs; it helps to address a service issue that is critical to the operator’s success.”
SciCare Broadband Services is the system integrator, professional services, and consulting arm of Scientific-Atlanta that provides the technical resources to help cable operators meet their business and technical needs.
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Time Warner to get Scientific Atlanta’s disaster recovery system
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Scientific-Atlanta launches software to help Video-on-Demand
Scientific-Atlanta has developed a supercharged version of its Digital Network Control System (DNCS) software.
The software will help cable ops give subscribers Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVOD) services on a large scale. Besides removing the headache of poor network capacity, they will be able to add value to services they offer. Expanded VOD/SVOD capacity will help consumers become more receptive to on-demand interactive TV services.
Scientific- Atlanta’ s digital interactive network already delivers interactive TV applications to digital cable subscribers in North America. The company said that the operators who deploy Scientific-Atlanta powered networks have an end-to-end system which can consistently be upgraded. But the operators who don’t have a scalable, digital interactive network system behind the set-tops they deploy cannot offer VOD and SVOD on a large scale.
Scientific-Atlanta’s DNCS software takes care of the complex network traffic which is necessary for the smooth delivery of high bandwidth, interactive digital video and data services to subscribers. DNCS performs functions like set-top provisioning, session management, network flow control and optimising bandwidth. DNCS also coordinates communications between applications servers, set-tops, and other devices on the cable operator’sn etwork.
Time Warner Cable plans to upgrade some of its sites to Scientific-Atlanta’s new network software, which will provide the reliable and scalable platform for their VOD and SVOD rollout. Scientific-Atlanta is also helping Comcast aggressively rollout VOD across two million homes by the end of the year.
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Scientific-Atlanta launches software to help Video-on-Demand
Scientific-Atlanta has developed a supercharged version of its Digital Network Control System (DNCS) software.
The software will help cable ops give subscribers Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVOD) services on a large scale. Besides removing the headache of poor network capacity, they will be able to add value to services they offer. Expanded VOD/SVOD capacity will help consumers become more receptive to on-demand interactive TV services.
Scientific- Atlanta’ s digital interactive network already delivers interactive TV applications to digital cable subscribers in North America. The company said that the operators who deploy Scientific-Atlanta powered networks have an end-to-end system which can consistently be upgraded. But the operators who don’t have a scalable, digital interactive network system behind the set-tops they deploy cannot offer VOD and SVOD on a large scale.
Scientific-Atlanta’s DNCS software takes care of the complex network traffic which is necessary for the smooth delivery of high bandwidth, interactive digital video and data services to subscribers. DNCS performs functions like set-top provisioning, session management, network flow control and optimising bandwidth. DNCS also coordinates communications between applications servers, set-tops, and other devices on the cable operator’sn etwork.
Time Warner Cable plans to upgrade some of its sites to Scientific-Atlanta’s new network software, which will provide the reliable and scalable platform for their VOD and SVOD rollout. Scientific-Atlanta is also helping Comcast aggressively rollout VOD across two million homes by the end of the year.