Video on-demand system architecture

Recent technological advances made multimedia on-demand servers feasible. Two challenging tasks in such systems are satisfying the real-time requirement for continuous delivery of objects at specified bandwidths and efficiently servicing multiple clients simultaneously. Out project is aimed at prototype development of such a large scale server. This paper jointly addresses the issues of load balancing, responsiveness, streaming capacity and cost effectiveness of high-performance storage servers and delivery systems for data streaming applications such as video-on-demand or news-on-demand We propose a relatively simple, flexible and robust video-server architecture.