http://www.streamingmedialand.com/industry.html

Be Here Technologies

www.behere.com

20300 Stevens Creek Blvd.,

Suite 100B

Cupertino, CA 95014-2241

Tel: 408.873.1300

Fax: 408.873.4950
 
 

RemoteReality Corporation

http://www.remotereality.com/

http://www.iqeye.com/prd/IQe3.htm

Corporate Headquarters

4 Technology Drive

Westborough, MA 01581

Phone: 508 870 1500

Fax: 508 870 8777
 
 

FullView, Inc.

www.fullview.com

3 Field Point Drive

Holmdel, NJ 07733, U.S.A.

Phone 732-275-6500 Fax 732-275-6266
 
 

Genex Technologies Inc.

http://www.genextech.com/home.html
 
 

10605 Concord Street, Suite 500

Kensington, MD 20895-2504

Omnieye camera system 360 camera, stereoscopic cameras, volumetric digitization

301-962-6565 FAX: 301-962-6555
 
 

imove inc.
http://www.imoveinc.com

26 NW Second Avenue, Suite 204

Portland, OR 97209

tel: (503) 221-2449

fax: (503) 221-2172 
 
 

Panoramic Projection
 
 
 
 

Panoscan, Inc.
www.panoscan.com

5632 Van Nuys Blvd. 

#150Van Nuys, CA 91401-4600

Casey Coss

818-908-4641
 

vr scanning 194 million pixels per minute
 
 

VRI
www.vri.ca

VR Interactive Corporation

102 Chain Lake Drive

Suite 1H

Halifax, NS Canada

B3S 1A7

1-902-446-4020
1-888-848-1908
fax 1-902-431-6345

lens system hi res 80 000 $ ca liscence reg res 1500$ ca
 
 

Viz box
www.vizbox.com

Visbox, Inc.

607 West Church St.

Savoy, IL 61874 USA

16 projector hi resolution projection system with live

rendering for arbitrary shapes see vrjuggler free vr api libraries
 

4096x 3072 pixels display
 
 

dVISE 
 www.division.com

http://emedia.engr.wisc.edu/dvs2000/docs/UNIXMAN/DVISECFG/dvisecfg.htm

SGI software in SGI Performer
 

quote on division reality vr environment 101 640 $ ca web vr solution

as well
 
 

Elumens
www.elumens.com
Sky-Skan
 

Elumens Corporation 
                                  1301 S. Briggs Ave.,
                                  Suite 100
                                  Durham, NC 27703  USA
1-800-842-1687
1-919-596-8900
fax: 1-919-596-2430

software for windows planetarium projection system off center

elumens free software spherical projection of images api for sgi open gl

creates content for vison station and vision dome proprietary

algorithms - thrutheta lens projection system center based
 
 
 
 
 
 

Stratosphere 
http://www.stratosphere.info/

360 projection dome 50 ft 
 
 

Evans & Sutherland

600 Komas Drive

Salt Lake City, UT 84108

Tel: (801) 588-7405
 
 

http://www.es.com/products/digital+theater/index.asp
 
 

Digital Theater products include StarRider (PC & IG) for domed theatres

Digistar 3 dome projection system
 
 

Goto Optical Manufacturing Co.

4-16 Yazaki-cho, Fuchu City,

Tokyo 183-8530, Japan

Phone: 81-423-62-5311

http://www.goto.co.jp/product/virtuarium-e.html

http://www.goto.co.jp/index-e.html The Virtuarium was the first full

color dome (planetarium) projector system for computer generated

imagery.
 
 

Hewlett Packard

Palo Alto, California USA

http://www.hp.com/pressrel/sep98/29sep98f.htm

HP VISUALIZE Center and HP VISUALIZE Workgroup IPDs combine Panoram

projection systems with HP computers.
 
 

Immersion Studios

Exhibition Place, Music Building

285 Manitoba Drive, Toronto, Ontario

Canada M6K 3C3

Phone: (416) 260-7711

Fax: (416) 260-7495

http://www.imm-studios.com Immersion reality theatres ? complete

digital interactive cinemas
 
 

MechDyne Corporation

11 E. Church Street, P.O. Box 1448

Marshalltown, IA 50158 USA

Phone: 515 754-4649

Fax: 515 754-4650

http://www.mechdyne.com

One of the leading system integrators creating wide variety of systems

from custom

table designs up to re-configurable CAVE/Theatre combos.
 
 

MetaVR, Inc.

37 Elm Street

Brookline, MA 02445-6813 USA

phone: US 617-739-2667

fax: US 617-249-0151

http://www.metavr.com

VRSG ? rack mounted PC based image generators with hardware

synchornization between multiple IGs.
 
 

MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc

50 South Winchester Blvd., Suite 500

San Jose, CA 95128 USA

Tel: 408 261 4100

Fax: 408 261 4103

http://www.multigen.com/products/immersive.htm

Vega Immersive and Vega Non-Linear Distortion Correction support IPDs

with tracking and curved screens: nautical, infrared, radar, advanced lighting systems,

animated humans, large area terrain databases, CAD data import,

DIS and more.
 
 

Quantum3D

6810 Santa Teresa Boulevard,

San Jose, CA 95119

Phone: 408.361.9999

Fax: 408.361.9980

http://www.quantum3d.com

Heavy Metal rack mounted PC based image generators with frame and sync

lock.
 
 

Panoram Technologies, Inc.

10951 Pendleton St.

Sun Valley, CA 91352 USA

Tel: (818) 504-0714

Fax: (818) 504-0636

http://www.panoramtech.com

Edge blending hardware, curved, flat and rear projected wall IPD, switching and

effects, mesh warp and off axis projection scaleable.,
 
 

120fps1280 X 1024 or split unix/linux/ windows/mac
 
 

RMH Agentur für neue Medien GmbH

Beethovenstraße 5-13

D-50674 Köln

Cologne Germany

Phone: +49 221 27225-0

Fax: +49 221 27225-10

http://www.rmh.de

Cyberstage ? 4 side room stereo display system
 
 

SEOS Displays Ltd.

Edward Way, Burgess Hill,

West Sussex, RH15 9UE, U.K.

Tel +44 (0) 1444 870 888

Fax +44 (0) 1444 870 777

http://www.seos.com

Worlds leading supplier of visual display systems to simulation

industry. PRODAS projectors have excellent geometry correction,

luminance control, automated setup, etc.
 
 

Trimension Systems Limited

Whittle House

Ashwyn Business Centre

Marchants Way

Burgess Hill, West Sussex

RH15 8QY

Tel: +44 (0)1444 250888

http://www.trimension-inc.com

Probably the worlds largest IPD vendor with extensive experience

building Reality Rooms, Domes, Tables, Walls, etc. SEOS is a sister

company.
 
 

VRCO, Inc.

330 S. Wells Street Suite 1200

Chicago, IL 60606

Voice: +1-312-344-5120

Fax: +1-978-336-0228

http://www.vrco.com

http://www.vrco.com/products/vrscape/vrscape.html

Software and consulting company. Provices Commercally supported EVL CAVE

Lib and other IPD tools.
 
 

Spitz Inc
www.spitzinc.com

P.O. Box 198 RT. 1

Chadds Ford, PA 19317

Phone: (610) 459-5200

Fax:(610) 459-3830 http://www.spitzinc.com/

Planetaria, Domes and immersive theatres construction and content

production/library.

poly dome atm 4 theater automation
 
 

Fakespace Inc.

241 Polaris Ave.

MountainView, CA 94043 USA

Phone: (650) 688-1940

FAX: (650) 688-1949

http://www.fakespace.com

http://www.pyramidsystems.com
 
 

Combined Pyramid/Fakespace IPD products include the CAVE, Immersive

WorkRooms, WorkWall, Workbench, Mini-Workbench, VersaBench, ImmersaDesk
 
 

Flogiston

16921 Crystal Cave Drive,

Austin, TX 78737 USA

Phone: 512 894 0562

http://www.flogiston.com

Flodome and Flostation provide single user rear projected dome IPDs
 
 

http://www.sense8.com/products/ido.html WorldToolKit link to free

windows world up modeller
 
 

Alternate Realities Corporation

1301 South Briggs Avenue, Suite 100

Durham, NC 27703 USA

Phone: 919-596-8900

Fax: 919-596-2848

http://www.virtual-reality.com
 
 

VisionDomes portable, multi-user, single projection dome environments.

(4, 5, 7 meter and custom)
 
 

BARCO

http://www.barco.com/projecti CRT and LCD Projectors, Stereoscopic

support, Baron Table IPD, split head projector CAD Wall
 
 

Cadcentre Group plc

High Cross

Madingley Road

Cambridge CB3 0HB

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1223 556655

Fax: +44 (0)1223 556666

http://www.CADCENTRE.com
 
 

Group Visualization solution combines Review Reality software with wall

display.
 
 

TAN Projektionstechnologie GmbH

http://www.tan.de

Cube™ -room IPD

Holobench (Dual plane table)

Responsive Workbench, Stereovision single projector Wall and TANORAMA™

multichannel wall.
 
 

VR Systems

Unit 8, Home Farm Business Centre,

East Tytherley Road, Lockerley,

Romsey, Hampshire. UK S051 OLW.

Tel: (01794) 342050

Fax: (01794) 342051

http://www.gkc.co.uk/~vr-systems

CyberSphere was a sphereical IPD free to rotate in any direction.

Although shown on BBC in April 1998, its current status is unknown.
 
 

Multicast Infrastructure
 
 

ip multicast bbs
 
 

http://lists.servicenetworks.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?site=penton&enter=ipmulticast
 
 

Multicast Service Providers List
 
 

http://www.multicast-isp-list.com/

(Inclusion is free and open to all. If you want to be included please

respond to this e-mail or contact Marshall Eubanks at

tme@multicasttech.com. We need to know details of your service or

product offering,)
 
 

Inktomi

http://www.inktomi.com/products

leadership position in network software integrated suite

publish, distribute, retrieve and manage information across global networks
 
 

Inktomi Media Publisher, Inktomi Traffic Core, Inktomi Traffic Edge and

Inktomi Traffic Controller
 
 

Media Publisher is for cataloguing, managing, and publishing media content,

enabling enterprises to organize, schedule, personalize, and display rich

media content through an on-line catalogue of programs organized into

customizable channels and categories.
 
 

eRoom Content Search allows Inktomi Search Software users to access

collaborative content published within eRoom's Internet-based software

through a single search query both inside and outside the eRoom environment.
 
 

Technology: "Media-IXT caches frequently requested streaming media content

at the edge of the network, close to end users. When a user requests

streaming media content, Media-IXT checks to see if the requested content is

in the cache. If it is not, the request is forwarded to the origin media

server which provides it. Media-IXT then stores the content in order to

satisfy future requests for it." Doesn't mentioned which streaming standards

it supports.

It also provides audience-viewing metrics to measure content usage as well

as to fulfil regulatory compliance procedures.
 

Fast Forward
 

Products: Multicasting with Software.

Company: 9/13/00: acquired by Inktomi for $1.3 billion.

http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM2000/ep/yano/index.html

Three core components make up the FastForward solution: MediaBridge,

MediaBridge ServerLinks, and the Broadcast Manager. MediaBridges are

software-based broadcast nodes that typically are placed at local

points-of-presence (POPs) of a service provider on a Solaris, Linux, or

Windows NT-based server. These nodes dynamically pull in streams from the

Internet and feed them to whatever media servers are in place, such as

RealNetworks G2, Apple QuickTime, or Windows Media Technologies servers. The

bridges communicate with those servers and figure out which streams each box

can handle via the ServerLink piece, which sits on the media server.
 
 

FastForward has already sold its solution to the Real Broadcast Network and

Digital Island.
 
 

The MediaBridge software has three components. First, there's MediaBridge

broadcast node software, which runs on Linux or Solaris servers and forms

the basic building block of any Media Delivery Network (MDN). Second,

there's ServerLink, a software module that is installed on existing

streaming media servers (RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media, ShoutCast) to

link them to the MDN. Third, there's Broadcast Manager, a suite of network

monitoring and management tools (the figure shows just part of it).

FastForward's network management for live streaming gives it an advantage it

will need later. Namely, as more places get broadband connections, the

ability to tightly allocate existing bandwidth will yield in importance to

the ability to quickly see who watched what, and for how long.
 

Digital Island

http://www.digisle.net/

Product :Footprint: Hosting service for streaming media. Customer adds the

Footprint URL on their web page for streaming content. Then Footprint's

servers figure out which streaming server to select (load balancing, get

closest server) and then the streaming server on Footprint's servers

delivers the content.

In general Digital Island does Web Hosting, Network Services and

Professional Services.
 

http://www.streampipe.com/
 
 

Akamai

http://akamai.com/

Product: FreeFlow Streaming

- hosting web servers and streaming servers on the Akamai network

- production, signal acquisition and encoding services

How it works: Freeflow is a caching concept. The basic assumption is that

75% of the size of a web page consists of embedded objects. An embedded

object is typically an image, for example a GIF or a JPEG file. Akamai has a

network of web servers that are at the edges of the Internet. With Freeflow

the actual web page is still requested from the original web server, but are

the embedded objects reside on the Akamai servers. Akamai does also load

balancing on their web servers (similar to burstware's conductor). Akamai's

infrastructure employs over 4000 servers in 160 networks (typically in a

ISP's network) in 45 countries.

Akamai is a technology oriented service company, the founders came from MIT.

Akamai has a very good understanding of traffic patterns on the Internet.
 
 

Globix

http://www.globix.com/streaming/

Globix is a provider of Internet hosting services with seven data centers in

the US and one data center in Europe. In addition to that there six more

global access POP's. Globlaix connects their data centers and POP's with

their own fiber backbone which is typically a OC-48 (2. Gbps).

- Streaming Media Service: Globix provides streaming media hosting services

and offers complete services (video production, encoding, hosting, hosting,

managing).

Company: located in New York NY, Santa Clara CA and London UK. NASDAQ: GBIX.

6/00: 3 Months Revenues $21 Mio, 3 Months Loss: $31 Mio
 

I-Beam

http://www.ibeam.com/

(proposed Nasdaq symbol: IBEM), which could be seen as a FastForward

competitor, uses satellite technology to circumvent network congestion and

bring data closer to users. FastForward, though, could sell its software to

I-Beam, because I-Beam must first send data to local ISPs, who in turn send

it to customers.

Product: iBeam has a propietary network for media streaming. They have a

satellite network for distribution of the content to their servers. In

reality iBeam uses the satellite network only to 10% for distributing the

media content. Company is focused to serve only media content.

iBeam has a product called On-Target that allows to insert advertising. They

also over service packages, such as All-hand meetings (recording,

broadcasting on their network) and Corporate Training Solutions. They call

their media distribution system iRelay and their redirection system (load

balancing, picking the closest edge server) iDirector.

Cisco

http://www.cisco.com/

Cisco - Sight Path:Edge Runner NetRunner

Product: Hardware/Software bundle.

Technology: NetRunner is a data distribution system for streaming data. It

supplies the EdgeRunners, a streaming server and cache engine, inside

firewalls, close to the customers.

- Edge Runner: "SightPath EdgeRunners simply plug into a power supply and

into a LAN, and are ready to receive rich media from the SightPath

NetRunner. SightPath's EdgeRunners self-organize on the network without any

ongoing administration. Using SighPath's unique SODA technology, EdgeRunners

automatically configure themselves and organize into a single cooperating

system that calculates the fastest route for distributing media anywhere in

the world. Working behind the safety of your firewall, SightPath EdgeRunners

receive media from the SightPath NetRunner, an enterprise media management

system. "

20 to 100 simultaneous streams of MPEG video.

MPEG, QuickTime, RealVideo and Windows Media video

- NetRunner:
 
 

http://www.sightpath.com/
 

Overcast: Reliable Multicasting with an Overlay Network
 
 

abstract: http://www.jannotti.com/papers/overcast-osdi00/
 

Talarian

http://www.talarian.com/

- SmartPGM (Pragmatic General Multicast): Middleware for reliable multicast

transport protocol for applications that requiremulticast data delivery from

multiple sources to multiple receivers.

- SmartTransfer: tool set for multicast file transfer over Talarian's

SmartPGM protocol.

Company: located in Los Altos, CA. Public: TALR (NASDAQ). Acquired

WhiteBarn, Inc. on 5/1/2000 (White Barn technology consisted of Multicast

products). Revenue 1/5/01: $21 Mio.
 
 

Bandwiz

http://www.bandwiz.com/

- Magic Media: Steaming Solution, using multicast based system. Seems to be

similar to Digital Fountains approach.

Explanation of the Technology: "For example, if a media server is serving 20

different video clips to up to 400 simultaneous viewers, it uses up 400

times the typical clip bit rate. Switching over to Bandwiz, a server would

be transmitting 20 clips at five times the bit rate, thus providing the same

20 clips to any number of simultaneous viewers at an aggregate bit rate of

only 100 times the typical clip bit rate."

Company: located in Waltham, Massachusetts, has an Israeli R&D center.
 

Burst.com

http://burst.com/

Product: Burstware. Streaming media server software solution, propietary

transport protocol, codec neutral, live functionality, fail-safe

functionality. Runs on Quicktime and MS Media Player with Burst plug-ins.

Company: located in San Francisco, CA. 11/20/00: Burst cut about 80 percent

of its work force. Public on NASDAQ: BRST.
 

Network Appliance
: Net Cache

http://www.networkappliance.com/

: web caching hardware solution. Patented file system and microkernel

technology.

Technology: Network Appliance promises to support the popular streaming

formats:Ê "The NetCache appliance provides native protocol support for all

of the popular streaming media formats: Microsoft Windows Media

Technologies, RealNetworks RealSystem G2, and Apple QuickTime.
 

Info Libria

http://www.infolibria.com/

Products: Content Commander, Media Mall, Dyna Cache

Content Commander .Hardware/Software bundle.Ê "Content Commander,

InfoLibria's platform for replication, management, distribution, and

delivery of web-based objects and streaming audio and video, enables

provider network managers to capture and manage content and content-related

activity among distributed DynaCaches and/or MediaMalls."

MediaMall - Media cache. "MediaMall is InfoLibria's advanced streaming

appliance for providers faced with large audiences, high volumes of video

and audio content,Ê and varied applications. MediaMall serves video and

audio streams to the requestor from the edge of the network and enables

providers to deliver the TV-quality video and CD-quality audio that

customers demand. MediaMall is part of InfoLibria's complete Internet

infrastructure solution."

Supports: Microsoft's Windows Media Technologies, RealNetworks' G2 platform,

Apple Computer's QuickTime 4, and Cisco's IP/TV streaming media

applications. Up to 1600 simultaneous 1 Mbps streams per Smart Content

Engine platform.

"Edgecasting" - stream close to the consumers. Offer also

"Live-Edgecasting".

Whitepapers

Cache Flow:

http://www.cacheflow.com/

Products:

- cIQª Streaming.

. Streaming server software. Apple QuickTime (Apple Darwin Server) clone.

Flat fee per server software (unlimited streams per server installation).

Streaming and Webcache engine, with integrated streaming server. They cache

the streams with some clever methods (Patents pending) and then start

streaming them from the TeraEdge server - they support Real (licensed!),

Quicktime and Microsoft.

Company: located in Sunnyvale, CA. Acquired by CashFlow for $440 million.

Before it was a privately held company.
 
 

Vividon

- Vividon Streaming Delivery Accelerator (SDA): SDA-1000 (Throughput: 100

Mbps), SDA-2000 (Throughput: 400 Mbps), SDA-5000 (Throughput: 700 Mbps),

Caching Applicance for Streaming Applications.

Protocols: HTTP, MMS, RTSP/RTP, Microsoft Windows Media,

- .Vividon Service Manager: manages (configure and monitor) several SDA's.

Company: located in Sudbury, MA. Founded by MIT grad students. VC-Funded.

* CacheWare

Products: Software that manages caching, content distribution and content

access control.

- MetaServer: policy engine that distributes meta-information about

available content to compatible enterprise edge servers.

- EdgeServer: a low-overhead server appliance that can reside anywhere in

the corporate intranet or extranet.

- MetaManager: GUI to the MetaServer, and provides simple, intuitive access

to and control of the MetaServer.

Company: located in Campbell, CA. Privatly held. Founded in 1995 as Ark

Research Corporation, sold its remote mirroring business to LSI Logic in May

2000 for $23 million.
 

iBlast

http://iblast.com/

Wavexpress

http://www.waveexpress.com/

Collaborative venture of Wave Systems Inc., Sarnoff Corp., and The Fantastic

Corporation

datacasting

Vsoft: VideoClick

http://www.vsoft.com/
 
 

Accordent

http://www.accordent.com/

- Dynasyne Technology

- VITECH
 

Kasenna

http://www.kasenna.com/

Products:

- Mediabase: Streaming and content management software. Three layers: 1)

Media Distribution 2) Media asset management (acquisition, storage, meta

data management) 3) Media streaming through Kasenna pump (QuickTime, MPEG

1/2), RealServer, streaming. Platforms: Irix (SGI), Linux, Solaris.

Mediabase originates from SGI/Warner Brothers interactive TV trials in

Orlando, FL.

- VCD Architecture: Video Content Distribution Architecture.

Company: located in Mountain View, CA. Spin-off from Silicon Graphics (SGI).

13.6 million funding from US Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures, Entertainment

Media Ventures and SGI VC funding.

Streaming21

http://www.streaming21.com/

Products:

- S21 Player: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3, ASF, VCD. Microsoft Windows Media Player

based.

- MediaServer: compression standards: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3, ASF, VCD. Java

based remote management. Scalable servers, fail-safe functionality.

- MP3 Server: User authentication and license access control. Architecture

that facilitates e-commerce with ODBC

- MediaCaster: Live and scheduled multicasts and broadcasts. Up to 7

concurrent audio and video channels per server

Company: located in Los Gatos, CA.VC funded. 7/11/00: $11Mio Series B

financing from iGlobe Partners Fund.
 

GMV Network

http://www.gmvnetwork.com/

Products: GMV Network Distributed Media Frameworkª (DMF) which consists of

encoder, two tiered media reflector/distribution system, server and media

players.

- INcoder: BeOS based live encoder.

- TCP Reflector / UDP Reflector / Transport Gateway: up to two tiers of

stream distribution

- EdgeServer: streaming server

- Players: Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Winamp (MP3).

Propietary players: video applet (Java, H.263), GSM applet (audio)

Company: based in Chicago, IL.
 

Atsana

Atsanaâs MPEG-4 simple profile chip solution
employs a parallel processing array combined
with memory to perform these tasks.
This ability to conduct calculations in parallel
is particularly important for the high
computation task of Motion Estimation.â

Envivio

Envivio will be demonstrating a complete end to end MPEG-4 solution for residential IP Television deployment. The demo will showcase headend equipment encoding MPEG-4 (4-CasterT) content that is distributed via the video servers (4-SightT). All the headend is managed by the management server 4-ManagerT. This content can be viewed on PCs or Set-top boxes using the 4-ViewT and EnvivioTVT.
The Envivio LB-4100 real time, full-resolution MPEG-4 encoder interfaces directly to the Comtech EF Data CDM-IP 300L modulator via an IP interface.
http://www.tuxia.com
CONTACT: Barry Strauss of Envivio, Inc., +1-650-875-3018, or bstrauss@envivio.com
Steve Kerns of Sparkpr, +1-415-962-8200, ext. 251, or steve@sparkpr.com, for Envivio, Inc.
Ê
Envivio's MPEG-4 video broadcast and streaming technologies were combined with TUXIA's "Purple TASTE" client software stack. TUXIA describes its TASTE software as a customizable, Linux-based software stack for open standards based IP-streaming set-top boxes. TUXIA's componentized Linux embedded operating system makes use of an XML-based GUI on a Mozilla web browser.
Encoding Station prepares an MPEG-4 file that contains one encoded audio stream, one encoded video stream, and the BIFS stream that contains instructions for reconstructing the presentation. Envivio also offers encoding station hardware solutions for plug and play systems, as well as more sophisticated professional series systemsThe Envivio MPEG-4 suite is the comprehensive solution allowing our customers to explore and take advantage of MPEG-4: an application suite that not only embraces superior design tools, compression and media delivery, but also the tools to create, market, and link interaction and commerce to comprehensive back-end tools to manage the business.
 

2netFX

http://www.2netfx.com/

Products:

- HDTV over IP: Jointly developed with TeraLogic and 3Com.

- StreamRider Player: IP Multicast/Unicast player. Windows. MPEG 1/2/4,

H.263. Streaming formats: RTP, MNS, OPV, RAW, IP. Standards: MPEG-1, MPEG-2,

RTP, UDP, IGMP, IP, SAP, SDP

- ThunderCastIP Server: An industrial-strength video server with web-based

remote management and scheduling. Supports live input (encoder: Array

VideoONE, Optibase MovieMaker). Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,

H.263. MediaPlayer/QuickTime compatible.

- CastFX: broadcaster front-end application.

Company: formerly Media NOW!, located in San Jose, CA. Privately held.

Investors: Canopy Group.
 
 

iVast

http://ivast.com/

Products:

- iVAST Studio SDK: a suite of iVast technologies that integrate with 3rd

party authoring tools.

- iVAST Server: MPEG-4 streaming server software.

- iVAST SystemWare: corba compliant middleware for 3rd party application

integration (ad serving, accounting, e-commence, digital rights management).

- iVAST Player: MPEG-4 player (video, video object planes, 3D rendering, 2D

vector graphics, interactivity).

iVAST Live Broadcast Encoderª: Provides high-performance, broadcast-quality, real-time MPEG-4 audio/video encoding and simultaneous archiving
Pam Golden Loder Jennifer Toton
Golden Loder AssociatesiVAST
pgloder@goldenloder.comjtoton@ivast.com
+1.908.889.8300 x122 +1.408.496.0671
Amnis NAC-3000 with LivePlayer ÷mpeg2
Amnis Systems (formerly Optivision)

Company: located in Santa Clara, CA. Privately held, VC funded.

Ingenient Technologies

Ê Information: info@ingenient.com
Ê Sales: sales@ingenient.com
Ê Marketing: marketing@ingenient.com
Ê Support: support@ingenient.com
MPEG-4/H.264 multimedia system solutions
TI 3rd party partner Ingenient Technologies will demonstrate the latest
MPEG-4 and H.264 video codec technology running on TI's C64x DSP.
Ingenient Technologies provides a full range of services that include
development boards, advanced audio/video codec technologies and
system integration capabilities.
On a single 600 MHz 64x DSP, this live demo can showcase multiple multimedia codecs such as:
1) MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile video with MPEG-4 advanced
audio coding encode and decode
2) MPEG-4 audio video coding/H.264 video with MPEG-4 advanced
audio coding decode
3) MPEG-2 video decode at full D1 resolution

Corporate Headquarters
1701 W. Golf Road
Tower 2, Suite 1210
Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008
USA
Phone: 847-357-1980
Fax: 847-357-1981

LSI Logic Corp.

http://www.lsilogic.com.
LSI Logic Corp. announced two design wins for its Domino media processor
Cable operators looking to use MPEG-4 streams on top of their current MPEG-2 infrastructure can also utilize the transcoding feature, Saffari said. For example, the feature makes it possible to re-encode HDTV from an MPEG-2 Main Profile @ High Level format to SDTV in an MPEG-2 Main Profile @ Main Level format, or convert an MPEG-2 video format to an MPEG-4 video format.
system OEMs can now build a 720 progressive/1,080 interlaced
The DoMiNo network media processor is the industrys first programmable, single-chip, multi-stream, multi-format, MPEG audio/video/system codec (encoder /decoder) architectureFlexible video and motion estimation processor;Ê DRAM controller; cache and scratch pad memory; IEEE1394 link, transport-stream de-multiplexers; video and audio I/O; flexible system bus, and all necessary system I/O, including smart card interfaces.
Multi-service network video head-end transraters and transcoders
* Non-linear editing (NLE) for the broadcast industry, including cable,Ê
satellite, and Internet MPEG-2, MP@ML and MP@HL
* MPEG-1, MPEG-4 (H.263+ with AAC audio and interlaced video support), and DV
* DVD-Audio with Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) and LPCMÊ
decoding MPEG-1 Layer I, MPEG-1 Layer 2, MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3),Ê
AC-3, DDCE, DTS, etc. MPEG-2 MP@HL to MPEG-2 MP@ML,
or even MPEG-4 at 1.3 Mbps or lower.
* Recording from or to DV camcorders for editing, archival, or video-mailing
purposes. Transcoding is required from DV to MPEG-2 or MPEG-1, orÊ
even MPEG-4, or vice versa.
* Recording digital music in MP3 format for playback with portable MP3
players. This requires transcoding from the original digital format to MP3 format.
LSI Logic is headquartered at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035, 866-574-5741 (within U.S.), 408-954-3108 (outside U.S.).

Minerva

Minerva VNP-40 real-time encoding appliance. The Minerva VNP-40 carrier-class encoder enables network operators and content providers to deliver live multicast and unicast content over broadband Internet Protocol (IP) networks. A standards-based solution, the VNP-40 complies with both RTP and RTCP networking protocol standards. The VNP-40 delivers H.263 compliant video, and is compatible with MPEG-4 compliant players. "Streaming high-quality video at low bit-rates ranging from 100Kbps to 1Mbps gives organizations an excellent communications tool without bringing a network to its knees,'' said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of marketing at Minerva Networks. Minerva also offers a suite of professional services to facilitate the deployment of end-to-end video networking solutions
The Minerva VNPú features high-quality MPEG video encoding technology. Designed around LSI
Logic's video processor, a PowerPC CPU, and VxWorks Real-Time OS, the system is built to offer
broadcast-quality video with high reliability. The Minerva VNP supports MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 compression and decompression in NTSC, PAL, and
SECAM formats at data rates from 1 to 15 Mbps. Its flexible CODEC architecture provides encoding
and decoding for one- or two-way communication and for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint
delivery.
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Philips Digital Networks
- MP4Net

http://www.philips.com/

Products:

- WebCine Player: MPEG-4 player, Windows.

- WebCine Encoder: MPEG-4, video and audio.

- WebCine Server: RTP, RTSP, runs on Linux.

Philips Nexperiaú media processor (such as the pnx1300 or pnx1500) with the pnx7100 MPEG CODEC at the heart of the system solution, Philips is offering consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers the ability to differentiate its end products based on a single flexible platform Philips Nexperia DVD+R/+RW reference design is based on a front-end solution built around the Nexperia pnx7850 processor and an OPU manufactured by Philips. The back-end solution is built upon the Nexperia pnx7100, a single-chip AVG (Audio, Video, Graphics) MPEG2 CODEC. Philips Nexperia family of media processors is powered by a high-performance TriMediaú CPU core with additional instructions for optimized MPEG video processing. Fabricated in a low-power 0.13-Micron process, it is a power-efficient, high-performance, multi-format media processor for a variety of CE applications. Philips has seamlessly combined both the pnx7100 and pnx1300/pnx1500 onto one platform.
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VBrick Systems
9140-4200 - single channel MPEG-4 encoder
* 9140-4300 - dual channel MPEG-4 encoder
* 9130-4300 - dual channel MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoder
+1 203-265-0044
 
 

Vweb
http://www.vwebcorp.com/
An MPEG and H.263 A/V codec chip from Vweb Corp. is said to be the first such device capable of full-screen MPEG-4 resolution, with backward compatibility to the H.263 videoconferencing standard. The VW2010 is also the first device to pack a full MPEG-1, -2 and -4 and H.263 encoder and decoder, to include transrating and transcoding functionality. capable of adjusting video resolution, frame and bit rates dynamically; changing formats to overcome network congestion; and enabling video distribution across LANs and WANs. It can also convert MPEG-4 back into MPEG-2 for display via a set-top box or DVD player.
The codec is expected to roll out in the first quarter of 2003 and will be priced at less than $35 in quantities of 10,000.
Call (408) 615-1888

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3CX

http://www.3cx.com/

Products:

- IXJET Streaming Server: Streaming server. Supports MPEG2, MPEG1, QuickTime

and ASF files. Platform: Windows NT. Requires Microsoft Netshow Services.

- IXJET Live Server: Uses Array Microsystem's VF100/200 MPEG-1 encoder

board.

- rcPlayer: Platforms: Windows, Mac. Requires QuickTime, DirectShow 5.1 or

later for software MPEG-1 decoding or Java Media Framework MPEG-1 playback

Company: HQ located in San Jose, Ca. Privatly held. Formed from IXMICRO

Network Division (IXMICRO: developers of popular Macintosh hardware products

such as Graphics Accelerators, TV Tuner/Capture cards).

On2

http://www.on2.com/

Products:
- TrueCastª Client/Server Architecture: streaming server. Compression
technology: VP3ª Codec. Hosted by On2.
- Player: Java based VP3 decoder. VP3 Plug-in's for QuickTime player and
RealPlayer.
Company: located in New York, NY. Public company: ASE:ONT.

PRODYS

sales@prodys.net

PRODYS is showing a range of audio and video compression algorithms on DSP,
including the following new products.
- Advanced Simple Profile at level 4 Encoder supporting half D1 resolution and Interlaced
Simple Profile encoder supporting resolutions up to 4CIF/D1.
A high quality range of MPEG-4 Visual Encoders and Decoders optimized for the Texas Instruments TMS320C6000T family of Digital Signal Processors.
A very extensive range of Audio Compression Codec for the Motorola DSP563xx, supporting the MPEG-1/2 Layer II, MPEG-1/2 Layer III and MPEG-2/4 AAC.
PRODYS solutions are available for
the Texas Instruments TMS320C62x, TMS320C64x, TMS320C67x and Motorola DSP563xx that cover a wide range of applications in the fields of Audio, Video and Communications.
Trigo, 54 2ª P
Polígono Industrial Polvoranca
Leganés 28914 Madrid (SPAIN)
Tel.: +34 91 689 68 80
Fax: +34 91 694 37 77

Fraunhofer IIS

http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/mpeg4_soft/video.html
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/products/audio_dsp/index.html
Catalog DSP implementation on TMS320C6201
2003 include: Live TV-sized MPEG-4 video and 5-channel audio encoding, streaming and decoding
Fraunhofer IIS contacts at NAB: Mr.
Stefan Geyersberger, Mr. Georg Ohler.
Fraunhofer IIS/AEMT contacts at NAB:
Sebastian Schmidt, R&D Engineer, and
Markus Cremer, group manager, Automated
Audio Analysis (AEMT).
mailto:amm_info@iis.fraunhofer.de
Video: MPEG-4 Simple and Advanced Simple Profile As one example, Fraunhofer IIS developed an MPEG-4
Simple Profile video encoder using two Texas Instruments´ TMS
320 C 6201 running at 200 MHz.
Encoder and decoder:
C/C++ source code
WIN32/LINUX object code
 

DBS

http://www.dbslive.com/

Products:

- DBS Streaming Caster: live streaming software

- Streaming Indexer:

- StudioNet FC SAN:

- DBS Streaming Player: based onWindowsMedia Player.

Company: located in Korea.
 

ImageOn

http://www.imaginon.com/

Technology: Java based decoder.
 
 

Virage

http://www.virage.com/

Products: Video Application Server
 
 

LessData, Inc.

http://www.lessdata.com/

Products:

- LessData Video Player. Based on propietary technology. Promises superior

video quality than Microsoft Media.

- Live Video Streaming Server

Company: based in Calgary, Canada, privatly held.
 

BroadWare

http://www.broadware.com/

Products: Streaming server/hosting with Java based clients.

Company: privatly held. Based in Cupertino, CA.
 
 

Togabi

http://www.togabi.com/

Products: MPEG-4 and H.263 based video/audio encoder, servers, and players

that deal very well with Internet congestion, packet loss as well as with

video streaming over wireless channels. Very impressive demo at Streaming

Media West 2000.

Company: Offices in Seoul Korea and Raleigh, NC. 7 employees (12/00).
 
 

Tekadence

http://www.tekadence.net/

Products: The Tekadence Platform is an open, end-to-end solution for

authoring, managing, distributing, and presenting networked software

applications.
 

Ligos

http://www.ligos.com/

Products:

- GoMotion¨, the award-winning MPEG software codec .

- Ligos LSX-MPEG, fastest MPEG encoding solution available in software.

- Indeo (sold to Ligos from Intel), for serverless video and audio streaming

from a single file

Company: provider of real-time media stream management software for the

devices and networks
 
 

Clearband

http://www.clearband.com/

Products: Turn-key solution for capturing encode and broadcast any real-time

video. 300Kbps to 2.0Mbps. MPEG-2.IP multicast.
 
 
 
 

Network Appliance
: Net Cache

http://www.networkappliance.com/

Product: web caching hardware solution. Patented file system and microkernel

technology.

Technology: Network Appliance promises to support the popular streaming

formats:Ê "The NetCache appliance provides native protocol support for all

of the popular streaming media formats: Microsoft Windows Media

Technologies, RealNetworks RealSystem G2, and Apple QuickTime.
 

Interactive Video Technologies IVT

Products: Video Operation Platform (IVOP): platform that creates and deploys

interactive video applications (the underlying technologies are standard

based). Proprietary development tool.

Company: NY

* Hypnotizer

Products: Interactive video streaming technology for existing MS Window

Media Player and RealPlayer. Propietary plug-in for existing players adds an

video overlay layer where menus, information and animations can be played.

Example: interactive menus for sports results and statistics during a

streamed football game.

- Player plug-in for MS Media Player, Quicktime and RealPlayer

- Hypnotizer server to serve the interactive content

- Hypnotizer editor for creation.

Company: located in Paris, France

* MShow

Products:

- MShow Player: application that integrates streaming video and audio,

telephony, graphics and messaging.

- Togetherware: server where the players connect to.

* ACTV

* Fantastic

Products:

- Channel Editorial Center (CEC): plan, schedule and schedule broadcast

material. Content types: 1) pre-caching content on the receivers end 2)

download software 3) streaming.audio/video. Includes editor for a booking

system, editor for a content online guide, subscription manager.Platform:

Windows.

- Channel Management Center (CMC): Transport of the content over satellite,

Internet (cable/DSL), mobile. Management of the bandwidth. Platform: HP Unix

& Windows.

- Fantastic Channelsurfer: integrated environment with Audio/Video player,

channel guide, e-commerce functionality. Platform: Windows (integrated in

Explorer and Netscape), Set-top boxes.

Customers: mainly large telecom companies.

Company: located in Zug, Switzerland. Public on Neuer Markt (Frankfurt):

FAN. Public since 9/99. 9/00 : Revenues $15 Mio, Loss: $30 Mio 337

employees.
Diva

Products: Video on Demand (VOD) products

- DIVA Video Server

- DIVA System Manager

- DIVA Digital Link

Company: founded in 95, Sarnof Spinn-off, located in Redwood City, CA. $100

equity raised.
Irdeto Access

Protecting digital content broadcast.
 

innovatv.com

Products: IMag. Interactive TV applications for the Web. Used by Road

Runner, Cox@Home, and MediaOne Express.

Company: located in San Diego, CA.
 
 

http://www.bulldog.com/
 

VisioWave

Products:

- Video Surveillance system. Includes a server appliance rack, inputs for

regular, existing analog video cameras, hardware encoders, management

system, storage server, web center and SDK.

Technology: proprietary compression method, based on wavelets. Streaming

transport over IP networks. Bandwidth can be changed in real-time.

Company: privatly funded, headquarters in Boulogne Billancourt, France,

research center in Lausanne, Switzerland.
 
 

Multicast Service Providers List

IP-Only.Net
 
 

IP-Only.Net is a Swedish-based ISP providing full multicast connectivity

for all Internet access services.

IP-Only.Net supports PIM-SM and will provide BGP-peers with BGP nlri

multicast, MSDP and PIM-SM.

There is no extra change for multicast connectivity.

There are no limitations on the use of multicast.

Contact :

noc@ip-only.net or

Your account manager
 

Lava.Net
 
 

Lava.Net provides full multicast connectivity for all Internet access

services.

Native multicast routing is enabled throughout the network infrastructure

and with one of their upstream peers, Sprint.

Dialup (analog and ISDN), DSL, co-location, and direct ethernet customers

have full multicast connectivity.

Multicast connectivity is included in the access services for no extra

charge. "We make no distinction between multicast and unicast traffic."

Frame relay customers must specifically request multicast access.

Contact :

Sales Office

733 Bishop Street, Makai Twr Ste 1170

Honolulu, HI 96813

Or call (M-F 9am - 6pm; Sat 9am-1pm)

808-545-5282 (24 x 7 voicemail)

888-545-5282 (toll free from neighbor islands)

808-529-0596 (fax)

human-info@lava.net

Level 3

Level 3 currently provides multicast connectivity/transit and will run

native pim sparse-mode, MSDP and mBGP to any customer on any Level 3

Internet interface.

Multicast connectivity is included part of the basic service offering for

no extra charge.

There are no limitations imposed on the use of multicast.

Contact :

Just request it from your sales representative or call

1-877-2LEVEL3

(1-877-253-8353)
 

Multicast Technologies
 
 

Multicast Technologies (MCT) has working solutions for cost-effective

audio and video broadcast using Multicast, up to and including complete

broadcast channels.

MCT also provides network engineering consulting and multicast bandwidth

for its clients.

In addition, Multicast Technologies operates the OnTheI.com multicast

Internet radio station, and the OnTheI.tv multicast video network.

Contact :

Multicast Technologies

Sales Office

Suite 410

10301 Democracy Lane

Fairfax, VA 22030

703-293-9601

info@multicasttech.com
 

Naino

Naino offers multicast connectivity to its clients.

This service is obtained by connecting directly to their POP in

Courbevoie, France.

(This multicast service is currently only available in France.)

Multicast Service is part of the Basic Service Offering, in fact "we

generally don't offer unicast transit to our clients (except multicast

encapsulation)."

Naino offers an SLA for all their multicast services except for "MBone"

connectivity which is best effort.

Multicast use is unlimited except for being subject to their Acceptable

Use Policy

Naino also offers Network engineering services / consulting in France and

in Quebec (Canada).

Contact :

Naino SA

Sales Office

21, rue Bargue

75015 Paris

France

Tel: +33 1 56 58 01 14

Fax: +33 1 43 33 52 67

info@naino.net
 

Spirit One

Spirit One provides multicast connectivity (receive only) for all

customers, DSL and Dial-up.

There is no extra charge for this service.

Contact :

SpiritOne Internet Services, Inc.

5319 SW Westgate Drive, Suite 162

Portland OR 97221

503-240-8081.
 
 

Sprint

Sprint provides multicast connectivity and transit to Sprintlink dedicated

IP customers. Multicast is not currently available to DSL, dial, or Sprint

Broadband Wireless customers.

Sprint provides native multicast connectivity to the multicast enabled

Internet.

Multicast service is currently available at no additional charge to

Sprintlink dedicated IP customers.

There are no limitations on the use of multicast, except for the use of a

multicast boundary to prevent traffic from propagating from reserved

addresses.

Contact :

Sprintlink dedicated IP customers can submit a request from

www.sprint.net/support/multicast_request.html, or

send email to multicast@sprint.net

Telia International Carrier

Telia International Carrier offers global IP Transit and Multicast

services on a wholesale level.

Telia International Carrier provides native multicast.

The Multicast service is included in the basic IP service offering at no

additional charge. The IP backbone SLA covers the Multicast service as well.

There is no limitation in the Multicast service.

Contact :

If you are interested in our Multicast or other IP services please contact

your local Telia sales representatives or

send email to sales@teliacarrier.com
 

Verio

Verio provides native multicast connectivity and transit without

restriction.

Multicast is disabled by default, and is supported on 'best-effort' basis

via multicast@eng.verio.net only.

There is no extra charge for this service.

Contact :

multicast@eng.verio.net
 
 

Speedera

Product: hosting service provider, does also streaming
 
 

Cidera

Product: Satellite delivery network, Live Only

Press release: "Cidera, Inc., the Internet Broadcast Backbone, is an

international leader in the satellite delivery of Broadband content to the

edge of the Internet. Cidera uses innovative high-speed satellite technology

designed to transport high-bandwidth data faster, more reliably, and more

efficiently to ISP's and DSL and Cable access providers. Cidera is expanding

its international network infrastructure to improve theÊ movement of Web

site content, streaming audio and video, live webcasts, large databases and

Usenet News over the Internet. Cidera serves more than 300 Points of

Presence (POPs) in North America and Europe."
 
 

Adero

Product: hosting service provider, does also streaming
 
 

Mirror-Image

Product: hosting service provider, own server network including Oracle

servers.
 
 

InterPacket

Product: hosting and delivery per satellite
 
 

Shoutcast

FVC.com

POPcast

Massive Media

Enron Broadband

Exodus

Streaming Media Corporation
 
 

http://smc.net/

8GB of throughput, satellite reception facility with 25 satellite dishes.

Located in Denver, CO.

Multicast Media

http://www.multicastmedia.tv/
 
 

st3
 
 

Services: content generation, asset management, content delivery. st3 has

their own fiber optics network in the US.

Company: a wholly-owned subsidiary of NextLec Inc, based in Chattanooga, TN.

Privatly held. 102 employees (7/01). Founded in 11/97.
 
 

Xantic
 
 

Services:

IP Streaming Service. Client has a satellite dish, data is delivered from a

data center directly. Guaranteed bandwidth. Two version: continues IP

stream, Scheduled Stream.

File Delivery.

The service is now available in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa

Company: joint venture between KPN of the Netherlands and Telstra of

Australia. Former Station 12 and SpecTec.

Network Products
 

Foundry Networks

RadWare

Alteon

F5
 
 

Skystream

http://www.skystream.com/
 
 

starburst.com also geocast
 

AT&T

Bloomberg

Hewlett-Packard Company

Hughes Network Systems

Internet Initiative Japan

KNTV NewsChannel 11

Microspace

Communications

Netcom Systems

Nortel Networks

Priority Networks

Stardust.com

Teleglobe

UUNET

Virgin JamCast