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Development of Linux based Stream Server
An internal university venture firm has developed a Linux based multimedia stream server in parallel form igniting interests from multi-media industries.
The company that developed the multimedia stream server, "Moby Dick 21," is a venture firm named Postream Corp. located within the campus of Chunnam University School of Engineering. This Moby Dick system is a high performance VOD (Video on Demand) system that is capable of providing a high resolution motion picture with sound to the users basing not on the Microsoft windows operating system, but rather on the Linux operating system.
This VOD service allows users to view any movies that are playing at the movie theater or stocked at the video rental place through PC or TV in real-time. Considering that all existing stream servers are based on the Microsoft operating system, the development of Moby Dick 21 gives a new meaning in this industry.
Some of the advantages that this system offer are the ability to enjoy a bigger screen and higher resolution motion picture with sound compared to the existing system. Also, this new system allows five times more users to use this service simultaneously than the existing system.
This system can also support other data formats such as MPEG and provides an excellent expansion capability to satisfy the needs coming from potential increases in demand. Since the expected marketing price is very competitive compared to its technological value, it is expected that there would be a surge in the demand from industries such as internet services, education facilities, businesses, government offices, contents businesses, etc. in providing real-time entertainment, real-time remote lecture, promotion and advertisement of businesses and goods, public support service, internet broadcasting service, and so on.
Currently, Postream Corp. is developing a new business model using VOD, and it is called "V-Project." This project will form a consortium made up of contents providers, equipment manufacturers, and telecommunication businesses to reach to the 5 million subscribers of high speed internet access in Korea to provide a "home internet movie theater." According to this business model, people with high speed internet access can watch currently released movies at home through internet at almost half the price of what they would normally pay at a movie theater.
Mr. Jung-Seung Na commented that this multi-media stream server in parallel form is a technological feat that can threaten the market share of Microsoft and soon be patented. He added that multi-national company such as LG-IBM, which is the co-sponsoring company, will handle the manufacturing of hardware.
Postream Corp. which was established in May of last year, has developed state of the art medical systems such as the remote hearing test system and hard of hearing correction system, and it intends to list itself on the KOSDAQ (similar to NASDAQ in the US) next year.
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