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LSI Corporation (News - Alert) launched a platform featuring the company's networking and storage solutions to enable content delivery networks (CDN). The CDN brings the rich media services to multi-screen environments. A programmable platform that brings significant performance, manageability and scalability and enhances the application and content delivery servers is the combination of LSI Axxia Network Accelerator, Axxia Media Accelerator and WarpDrive SLP-300 solid-state acceleration card.

In a press release, Steve Vandris, media processor product line director, Networking Components Division, LSI, said, “By preventing network congestion, data center and mobile CDN servers make it easier for users to access live broadcast video, video on-demand, and other video and graphics-intensive content from any screen, at any time and in any place. Our portfolio of network and storage solutions makes it easier for OEMs to more cost-effectively manage rich media content and deliver a higher QoE to users.”

The foundation enables equipment manufacturers to reduce operating expenses for their customers while delivering rich media content and enabling new services is provided by the CDN servers using the LSI portfolio of networking and storage solutions. The LSI networking and storage solutions also enables the equipment manufacturers to decrease time to market, support new codec standards and help OEMs produce products with upgradeable features.

Will Strauss, principal analyst, Forward Concepts (News - Alert), said, “With the exploding growth of rich media within the data center environment and on mobile devices, more efficient media processors and storage capabilities are required to meet today's demands. The adoption of CDN servers powered by LSI solutions helps OEMs contend with this issue.”

LSI Corporation was recently in news when it announced a platform featuring the company's networking and storage solutions to enable content delivery networks (CDN) that bring rich media services to multi-screen environments. The combination of the LSI Axxia Network Accelerator, Axxia Media Accelerator and WarpDrive SLP-300 solid-state acceleration card provides a programmable platform that brings significant performance, manageability and scalability enhancements to application and content delivery servers.

Sujata Garud is a TMCnet freelancer with three years of writing/editing experience and two years of market research experience. As an editor she has covered the IT, electronics, banking, pharma, construction, mining and healthcare industries. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Rich Steeves