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The Advantages of Special-Purpose Communications Technology: Meeting the Needs of Large Network-Based Solutions

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Overview Media servers that run exclusively on general-purpose processors in Intel or Sun servers are beginning to appear on the market. These media servers are touted as fast and easy to design and deploy, at a lower cost than media servers based on specialized hardware. This positioning paper examines the different requirements for media servers being deployed in small-to-medium enterprises versus large-scale, network based deployments and how the differences dictate the best architecture for the job.

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Publisher	NMS Communications	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2002	Downloads	560
Format	White Papers
Topics	Communications Software

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