Media On Demand’s design philosophy is to enable our Streaming Media Hosting System to be scalable, flexible and cost effective in order to fit customer requirements. This design ensures delivery from robust load balanced server architecture to clean, scalable bandwidth. We can handle any size project from live webcasts with thousands of concurrent viewers to entry level on-demand hosting packages.
Media On Demand’s architecture is based on the fact that no individual server is fault tolerant. We have built a complete and scalable server system that is made up of multiple redundant media servers. If we encounter any failure within our system, the whole of the system will remain online streaming content. This Architecture provides a robust hosting platform that has built-in redundancy, while also providing optimised performance.
Media On Demand’s infrastructure is dedicated to hosting Streaming Media and event content. We are dedicated to scaling our infrastructure to meet the needs of our clients. We continue to add servers and bandwidth as load increases to bring down the marginal average of the overall system. This maintains low per server utilisation and with our load balanced infrastructure, allows us to sustain maximum throughput during peak usage periods. We also dedicate segments of our system for exclusive projects to provide the priority required for special applications.
The Network
No matter how good the server infrastructure, a hosting service is only as good as how it connects to the rest of the world. We partner with a major backbone provider with robust International Internet backbone connectivity. Our Data Centre is connected through multiple, redundant fibre optic connections in a fault tolerant, geographically networked model.
Our Network Operations Centre (NOC) monitors circuits 24/7, assuring quality throughput minute by minute. Additionally, public and private peering arrangements with national and international backbone providers allow Streaming Media to be routed directly into these networks, bypassing crowded public Internet circuits. We are dedicated to scaling our bandwidth as additional capacity is required.
Cable & Wireless network overview
Cable & Wireless has the reach, versatility and performance organisations needs, whatever its size, scope or ambition.
- Tier 1 operator in Europe. international IP backbone network delivers faster, more reliable performance and give data the most direct route to its destination
- New US network provides high-quality infrastructure and service delivery to international customers requiring service to, from and within up to 311 metropolitan areas in the US
- Networks that support our IP-VPN QoS and IP-VPN Internet services enable connections to sites without setting up expensive private circuits, helping staff spread across a wide geographical area work together better
- Investments in 78 major international cable systems, providing connectivity to every continent
- Data centres host many of the world's best-known, highest-traffic websites. They have the technology, service and security to support leading businesses in the financial services, technology and other sectors
- Data network offers cost-effective frame relay and ATM services at a range of speeds to a long list of countries world-wide
- Global Roaming Exchange (GRX) network enables mobile operators in more than 70 countries route General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) traffic - including data from email, file transfer and intranet applications - to far end-operators, broadening the reach they can offer customers
- National telecoms networks provide a robust infrastructure to support businesses in the UK, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Panama, the Middle East, and in the Atlantic, South Pacific and Indian oceans
