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Callisto Media Systems Voyager - Video Services Platform

Accomplishments Patent awarded 10/97 (US & Canada) Best New Canadian Technology Development Award - 3/99 Pilot customers deliveries - 4/99 Product launch - 5/99 (NAB) SUN Partnership - 5/99 “News in a Box” w/Leitch - 4/00 Telesat Award (VCA launch customer) - 10/01 Voyager Release 2.2.3 - 06/02

Voyager Provides Unmatched Flexibility

Strategic Differentiation Architecture - patented/proven - 7 years ongoing dev’t

Centralized & distributed streaming & caching Tightly coupled group of servers acting as a single server (VIA)

– All servers connected to all other servers Loosely coupled distributed cache servers (VCA)

– Puts content @ local hub, no duplication of storage (reduces costs)

Features - includes basic & advanced mgmt. services Quality of Service (QoS) over IP Content management & distribution Effortless/remote support capabilities

Customer investment management capability

Video Services Platform - NOT just a Streaming Solution

Digital Video & Video Streaming

Applications Background

End to End Solution

Ingestion Distribution Cache

Meta-dataIngest Central Access

Push Unicast

Push to edge

Pull from edge

Multicasting

Mapping

Distribution

Encryption*

Archiving

Accounting

Remote caching

Unicast

Multicast

Collaboration

Stream Play

* Future

Quality of Service

What are Video Servers?

Guaranteed video delivery Special purpose video S/W I/O intensive operation Video data stream oriented Delivers voice, video & data Asset management Other applications on

separate servers

General General Purpose Purpose ServersServers

VideoVideoServer Server

Balanced system performance General purpose O/S CPU & memory intensive Transaction oriented Evaluates data Runs applications

Service Components

Content acquisition - of existing resources or production of new content to populate video server

Video digitization - encoding and compressing of analog video for storage in a digital medium

Video server - stores video in digital format for retrieval on demand

Network - for distribution of video and interaction with client (broadband)

Client interface - software the client runs to request, view and operate (Web browser - Netscape/IE)

Video on Demand Service Model

BroadbandPort

Display Device IP Service Delivery SupportServices

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other subscribers

Large Selection SetDigital Video Files

Voyager

Access/ViewingCommsNetwork Service Provider Equipment

- Accounting- Billing- Statistics- Maintenance- Reporting

WebTV

Acquisition &Encoding

Digital MPEG Video MPEG1 (ISO) - PC based solutions

S/W decoding Most popular PC/Intranet standard (1.2 - 1.5 mbps) Special techniques for lower bit rates

MPEG2 (ISO) - Broadcast Quality Hardware decoding - any PC ($100 video card) Software decoding for higher end PCs (with DVD players) Higher bit rates (MBPS) for DVD

More storage & bandwidth required

MPEG4 - ISO/ISMA open standard Multimedia specification (video, audio & graphics) & interactivity Compresses scenes individually, variable bit rates

Video Storage Requirements

Bit Rate Storage (1 hr) CD (650 MB) DVD (4.4 GB)

1.0 450 MB 86 min 9.7 hrs

1.2 540 MB 72 min 8.1 hrs

1.5 675 MB 57 min 6.5 hrs

2.0 900 MB 43 min 4.8 hrs

3.0 1.35 GB 29 min 3.2 hrs

4.0 1.8 GB 21 min 2.4 hrs

Voyager Video on Demand

(VoD) Systems

Architectural Issues Configuration flexibility (H/W & S/W) Scalability - seamless incremental growth

Manage capital investment outlay Retain capital investment

Centralized or distributed video Large central and smaller remote servers

Central or distributed content repository Distributed databases No centralized master of any database or device

Video Distribution Issues

Network bandwidth, control & ownership Content brokerage & management Application - system features, tools, GUI, ITV Architecture - scalability, flexibility, distribution Platform, integrity - of streams, content and QoS Performance of video server engine

Solution must have all these capabilities

Application Issues System operation and maintenance

Effortless Administration Remote support & maintenance

Comprehensive activity tracking & statistics suite Viewer, title/content, database management Digital rights management

Simple configurable GUI Asset management Configuration management

Internal configuration flexibility

Voyager Interconnect Architecture (VIA) Scalable, modular, flexible, distributed architecture Content and bandwidth management

Voyager Performance Managing & configuring performance optimization parameters

Voyager Collaborative Architecture (VCA) Integrates Families of servers into distributed Communities

Voyager Management Application (VMA) Configuration, content, user profile, account & database mgmt

Voyager GUI GUI development utilities & portal development capability

Voyager Foundation

Voyager Management Application (VMA)

Catalog Clips Profiles NetworkAccounting

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Voyager Video Services Platform (VIA/VCA)

Building Blocks

User Interface/GUI

VIA - Resource Management

H/W - SUN & others

Solaris

Foundation (Real Time Communications)

Catalog Clips Profiles NetworkAccounting

Voyager Management Application (VMA)

Set Top Box (EPG)

Stream ManagementIngestion Delivery

Application - edu, entertainment, surv.

VCA - Collaborative Architecture

VMA Features System Operation and Maintenance

Manage database of individual or group user profiles Control of desired system features

Comprehensive activity tracking Accounting & usage tracking (with filtering ability)

By individual user, video object and/or activity Asset usage monitoring (Royalty management)

Interface/API to billing & reporting systems Administrative functions for video objects

Addition/removal of video objects to/from library Manage video object library & databases Manage client access and control

Voyager Catalog Management

Cataloging by user defined attributes Search based on user specified attributes/categories

Custom search criteria, Dublin Core, IMS, CanCore Keyword searches on title or descriptive paragraph “N” Level drill down menu capability (customer defined)

Title/content management Remote cache system management Remote content import Editing & clipping

Database attribute management Enter, editing & display control

Voyager Clip Management

Power of “digital video editing” in users hand Create “virtual clips” and “tags/bookmarks” Create & provide URL links to video, clips & tags

Clip is auto-generated and available for incorporation into– web documents & training courses etc.– on line textual annotation of video clips– on line HTML editing & video clip insertion

Eliminates copyright/re-purposing issues

VideoStart

VideoEnd5 min 10 min

Clip

Server: www.voyager.comTitle: Flight to Jupiter

Voyager Profile Management

User Access Voyager access & security Integration with 3rd party authentication server

Multilevel security - driven by user profile Privileged access for critical control functions

System Administrator, Administrator, Librarian, User

User profile selectable options including Feature set choices Multilingual capability

Stream Capture & Play-out

Live event capture support Can ingest ‘live’ Video over IP stream Voyager automatically puts in to cache Allows for real time streaming Meta-data can be created during ingestion Applications include

Security camera captures Live event transmissions Automatic content ingestion

Additional Voyager Features

Playlist Can create and play any list of video files or clips

QuickTime/MPEG4 QuickTime integrated into Voyager (no Mac server req’d) MPEG4 hinted files with QT/RTSP Including Mac client platform support Incorporates MPEG4 - ISO/ISMA

Integration of windows & real media formats

Voyager System Management

Server & architecture management Database integrity management Storage capacity management System auto configuration

Nodal management Bandwidth & I/O management Storage device management

System Configuration & Management

Customer set-up configuration system System default features

System logo, background colors Feature sets, e.g. language, home/splash page etc.

GUI & application layout Database parameters

Search criteria & attribute displays Mandatory fields Attribute value properties (single, multiple etc.)

Customer System Management

Video Viewing

MPEG1 S/W decoders Direct Show with Callisto Java applet

MPEG2 - S/W decode for PCs (> 650 MHz) Several decoders on market that support windows player

Browser-less client (MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3) Voyager Java API QuickTime Player for QT, MPEG4 on PC & Mac

Power in the User’s Hands

Voyager ASP/Portal

AdminAdminPortal 1Portal 1AdminAdmin

Portal 1Portal 1NewsNews

Portal 2Portal 2NewsNews

Portal 2Portal 2EDUEDU

Portal 3Portal 3EDUEDU

Portal 3Portal 3 SportsSportsPortal 4Portal 4SportsSports

Portal 4Portal 4

IndividualizedIndividualizedPortalsPortals

IndividualizedIndividualizedPortalsPortals

Satellite & Low Bandwidth Content

Distribution Support

Telesat Configuration

WebCache Server

Web Cache

Library Player& Video

Conferencing

Satellite HQ Remote Sites

Gateway/Hub

Two-Way Indoor Unit

ODU

Video Server,Repository,& SatelliteScheduler

CA*net4IP-2

IP- 1

Router(NAT)

16 MBPS 2 MBPS

CacheServer

Dispatch Scheduler Provides content movement dispatch facility

B/B Satellite distribution & low B/W connectivity Between central & remote cache servers Can monitor and change content dispatch schedule and parameters

Satellite or network dispatch based on B/W & time slot allocation By date, day of week or default parameters

Prioritized based on requestors By round robin, site, site prioritized or groups

Eliminates/manages duplicated content requests

Video Request Support Can search any public meta-data in Community Video request status page (for all Community) Requested videos can only be manually deleted

Others only in cache & space reallocated based on usage System manages space requirements for incoming

content

Group-casting Will allow selected distribution of content Can create groups of recipients, e.g.

French Schools (Group 1) English Schools (Group 2) Native Schools (Group 3)

Content can be “pushed” by service provider or “pulled” by remote requestor

Content requested by remote sites becomes part of primary archive

Content received but note requested by remote site, remains only in rewritable cache

CA*net 3 Connectivity

BCnet

Netera SRnet MRnet

ONet RISQ

ACORN

STAR TAP

Ottawa Halifax

Chicago

Vancouver

Fredericton

Calgary ReginaWinnipeg

Montreal

Toronto

St. John’s

Charlottetown

New York

Select Customers Education

Pentranic Group (2 systems) USA Video (3 systems)* Bell/OneWorld CANARIE CAnet3 NBTel (Aliant) * Island Tel/ITAS (Aliant) University of Manitoba TV Ontario * California State University Cuauhtemoc University (Mexico) Belle/Netera University of Guadalajara Tutorbuddy.com University of South Florida (Inet2)

Other House of Commons* Maritime Tel (Aliant) * Rogers Telecom/Metronet* Nortel Networks (2 systems) World Village Networks Infomagnetics/IMT (wireless) Leitch Technology Futureway Communications Bertelsmann* Humanet/Seojin (Korea) WebDax (Nebraska - wireless) Telesat Canada - satellite (19 systems) SavoirNet/Bell Canada

*Leased/pilot trials** Selected

Project Management

&Sales Tools

Define Requirements

Identify the kind and level of training Identify course development requirements Identify user requirements (quality) How many users will access system (streams)? How much content will be made available (hrs)? Identify he most effective distribution method Where and who will maintain system? Roll out schedule

Keep Success within Reach

Implementation

Review network capability - client Determine methodology for delivery

Local and remote locations Determine content and encoding methodology Choose pilot project clients and content Beta on Broadband LAN or WAN Measure usage and request feed back

Target: Success

Integration into IS Strategy Meet enterprise information & filtering needs Streamlining & simplification of services Value added service & training on demand Sharing, exchanging & retaining information System modularity, inter-operability & distribution Information synchronization Meets enterprise technology architecture goals

Scalability, open, multi-media, off the shelf

Convergence of Technology with Strategy

Network Infrastructures

& Issues

Network Implications

IP network No special networking H/W (any switch, router etc.)

Bandwidth Most critical on streaming capability How much can be accessed for video delivery How many streams can be supported at specific bit rate

Service Quality Internet or LAN

Impacts # of hops and QoS

Network Requirements

BackBone 10BaseT 100BaseT GBE

Actual (est'd) 6 MBPS 60 MBPS 600 MBPS

Data TBD TBD TBD

Video@ 56 KBPS 110 streams 1,100 streams 11,000

250 KBPS 24 streams 240 streams 2,400 streams

1 MBPS 6 streams 60 streams 600 streams

2 MBPS 3 streams 30 streams 300 streams

3 MBPS 2 streams 20 streams 200 streams