April 25, 2007 7:45 PM PDT
Sun's Streaming System, announced Wednesday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, consists of a group of servers and at least one storage system. Together, the systems can deliver as many as 160,000 simultaneous streams of standard-definition video over the Internet, but a high-end model costs $8 million. Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim had been working on the systems for his most recent start-up, Kealia, which Sun acquired in 2004. From top to bottom are ordinary Sun Fire X4100 servers, an X4200, an X4500 "Thumper" storage system, and the new Sun Fire X4950 Streaming Switch.
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