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Multimedia content delivery over LANs and WANs

Multimedia content delivery over LANs and WANs. Patrick Coe EKU Technology department EET 499 CET/CEN Capstone project 2009. Outline. Develop both a reliable and cost effective method of storing and delivering multimedia content in a diverse environment.

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Multimedia content delivery over LANs and WANs

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  1. Multimedia content delivery over LANs and WANs Patrick Coe EKU Technology department EET 499 CET/CEN Capstone project 2009

  2. Outline • Develop both a reliable and cost effective method of storing and delivering multimedia content in a diverse environment. • Configure and allow administrators secure remote access to the distribution system. • Ensure client accessibility and ease of use.

  3. Motivation • Personal interest after doing work at both a cable TV and radio station in Carahue, Chile • An interest in making interactive methods of learning accessible to a larger audience. • Personal interest in Linux based operating systems and their capabilities • To make people’s lives easier

  4. Introduction • Voice and video over IP have become common. Skype™ and YouTube™ are popular examples.

  5. Introduction • Business meetings can happen without physical presence • A professor can lecture to classes in different locations

  6. Introduction • Facility has over three-hundred client computers and over one thousand users across 3 buildings.

  7. Problem Statement • How do we implement a multimedia distribution system to handle these users? • How do we keep this solution cost-effective and scalable

  8. Servers Dell Optiplex GX110 -1200 MHz Celeron Processor -384 MB SDRAM -two 30 GB IDE HDDs -Web-cam Dell PowerEdge 4400 -733 MHz Pentium III Xeon processor -256 MB registered SDRAM -four 9 GB SCSI HDDs in a RAID-5 configuration -Web-cam -TV-tuner

  9. Software • Windows 2003 Server • Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) • VideoLAN • Windows Media Encoder • Windows Media Services • tightVNC • LogMeIn

  10. Design

  11. Remote Access

  12. System in practice

  13. Dead server • Thunderstorm destroyed the Ubuntu Server • System still works in place due to built in redundancy

  14. Conclusion • Great learning experience • Cheap and scalable • It works! You can go to http://www.wburg.k12.ky.us/extra/jackettv/archivepage.htm and view videos available on the web

  15. Future Work • Live-CD distribution • Secure web access to multimedia • MythTV as an easy to use client

  16. Thank you for watching • Greetings from Europe! permanent e-mail: coepatrick@gmail.com Frankfurt, Germany Naantali, Finland Pori, Finland Barcelona, Spain Rome, Italy Toledo, Spain Madrid, Spain

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