Cisco Cisco UCS B260 M4 Blade Server 白皮書
Virtualized Video Infrastructure with Harmonic VOS and Cisco UCS
January 2015
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(with two HD channels per discrete appliance in 1RU) reveals a dramatic reduction
in infrastructure complexity. As shown in Figure 6, the required hardware is
considerably reduced for a VVI implementation based on Harmonic Electra XVM and
Cisco UCS. This case study represents 1080 HD mezzanine sources with one HD
and five ABR outputs per input, with 15:1 redundancy. Each blade server (equipped
with Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v3 CPUs) supports six HD channels.
in infrastructure complexity. As shown in Figure 6, the required hardware is
considerably reduced for a VVI implementation based on Harmonic Electra XVM and
Cisco UCS. This case study represents 1080 HD mezzanine sources with one HD
and five ABR outputs per input, with 15:1 redundancy. Each blade server (equipped
with Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v3 CPUs) supports six HD channels.
Conclusion
Today’s discrete fixed-function appliance-based video architecture is both costly
to deploy and maintain and complex, difficult, and time consuming to expand.
These realities and associated costs increase the time from deployment to results
and affect profitability just when media companies need agility to address change,
growth, and opportunity.
to deploy and maintain and complex, difficult, and time consuming to expand.
These realities and associated costs increase the time from deployment to results
and affect profitability just when media companies need agility to address change,
growth, and opportunity.
Increasingly capable industry-standard hardware, such as Cisco UCS B200 M4
Blade Servers, provides a compelling alternative in the form of VVI. This software-
based approach offers numerous operational and economic benefits for video
production, with lower TCO and greater agility than traditional discrete appliance-
based systems. VVI with Harmonic Electra XVM and Cisco UCS provides modern
video production facilities with agile and efficient video service delivery to compete
more effectively and benefit from emerging opportunities.
Blade Servers, provides a compelling alternative in the form of VVI. This software-
based approach offers numerous operational and economic benefits for video
production, with lower TCO and greater agility than traditional discrete appliance-
based systems. VVI with Harmonic Electra XVM and Cisco UCS provides modern
video production facilities with agile and efficient video service delivery to compete
more effectively and benefit from emerging opportunities.
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Figure 6. Harmonic Electra XVM Running on Cisco UCS Results in Dramatic Infrastructure
Reduction and Simplification
Reduction and Simplification