IP multicast

Cost efficient, reliable data distribution

A server/PC-based solution for sequentially multicasting digital content, ASTRA's data carousel service determines which content is transmitted, to which location, at which time. It enables customers to deliver constantly updated information to remote sites by allowing them to automatically forward relevant data in recurring cycles.

Applications for which the MFTS carousel is ideally suited include:

• Video and other content for points-of-sale displays
• Enterprise data file delivery
• Distance learning
• Database updates
• Time- or programme-specific set-top-box (Over-The-Air) applications.

Additional software modules:

• Remote management
• Security
• Scheduled transmission
• Client script interpreter
• Web crawler

Key features:

• Based on proven technology
• Forward Error Correction (FEC)
• Extended TFTP protocol (RFC 1350, RFC 2347, RFC 2348, RFC 2349, RFC 2090)
• Fully Microsoft Windows compliant

Benefits:

• Fast and simultaneous delivery of business-critical information
• Satellite network savings (single data stream regardless of number of receivers)
• Significant system savings (serve thousands of remote sites concurrently from a single server)
• Rapid deployment
• Flexibility (anywhere, anytime accessibility)