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Video-on-demand server provider Kasenna Corp., which aims to break into the traditional cable market, picked up a key win with Total Vision, a fiber-to-the-home broadband provider serving condo units in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
Total Vision is buying Kasenna media servers that will span 100 edge sites in those three states, serving a total of 65,000 individual condominium units. It plans to offer VOD, among other services, to those homes.
Scalable
Kasenna's technology is highly scalable, with its XMP SE software system built on off-the-shelf server technology. That allows the company to scale down to VOD deployments as small as a condominium, said Kasenna chairman and CEO Mark Gray.
Total Vision will buy Kasenna's $6,000 OmniBase server system, which stores 120 hours of content. It's the same low-end product recently purchased by Mid-Hudson Cablevision, an upstate New York operator, Gray said.
Kasenna's high-end product -- servers with thousands of hours of storage capacity and separate streaming solutions -- are being tested by Time Warner Cable engineers for Mystro, the company's headend-based digital video recording system. And Gray promises other cable deals...