iStreamPlanet, Switch Communications, and Intel team up to deliver an outstanding online media experience for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.
Whether they are following alpine skiing, figure skating, luge, hockey, snowboarding, or other events, millions of people will watch the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games on their computers. iStreamPlanet was selected by NBC and Microsoft 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 partnered with Intel and co-location services provider Switch Communications. The new infrastructure uses 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.
"The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series was the right choice for providing the performance iStreamPlanet needed, while enabling us to build a dense, energy-effecient infrastructure that fits in well with the SuperNAP facility."- Jeff Ames, Chief Technology Officer, Switch Communications
