Whether they followed alpine skiing, figure skating, luge, hockey, snowboarding, or other events, millions of people watched the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games on their computers. IStreamPlanet was selected by NBC and Micosoft to manage content acquisition, encoding, and publishing of live and on-demand video for the Games. To build the digital media infrastructure required for this massive undertaking, the company worked with Intel and co-location services provider Switch Communications. The new infrastructure used servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to provide the raw compute performance, memory, and I/O bandwidth required to deliver an outstanding online media experience.
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