Blackwave launches first production device, signs CDNetworks

Blackwave, an Internet video storage and delivery company, announced its first production system, the Blackwave R6, which it said will reduce storage and delivery infrastructure by storing and delivering video in multiple protocols from one platform. The company also announced it has signed CDNetworks as its first customer for the R6.

Blackwave CEO Bob Rizika said the R6 device can deliver video through HTTP, Windows Media Server, and Flash from the same back-end appliance. Rizika said the device gains its increased capacity from innovations at the software level, which generates significantly higher read rates than standard SATA drives.

The company claims the R6 only takes up half a rack of space, but can deliver 10 times the performance of standard systems.

"The Blackwave system has the robustness to handle the initialization of a request and expedite delivery, providing a sub-1.5 second time-to-video for the viewer," said Michael Kuperman, director of global operations for CDNetworks, in a statement. "With the Blackwave R6, we are able to rapidly and cost-effectively scale our implementation of the Adobe Flash Media Server 3 software distribution network in support of our growing customer base." 

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