Juniper Networks has introduced VXA Series Media Flow Engines, a suite of content delivery appliances, to maximise the scale and reliability of Media Flow offering.
The company said that the Media Flow offering is a content delivery and caching offering, which allows service providers, content publishers and content delivery networks (CDN) to provide media content efficiently, cost effectively and profitably.
The new Media Flow offering enables customers to reduce costs, improve user experience, and drive new revenue by allowing service providers to introduce new content-based services and expand business models while leveraging existing network investments, the company said.
In addition, through the new offering customers can deliver CDN services or the delivery of premium entertainment content to any device, at any time, Juniper said.
According to Juniper Networks, the base of the new offering is Media Flow Controller, which is a hierarchical caching software appliance that provides an awareness of content requirements, network conditions and storage infrastructure for optimal caching efficiency and performance.
Further, the new offering includes Networks Media Flow Manager, which is an element management application and the VXA Series Media Flow Engines.
The company said that the Media Flow Controller can be deployed on the VXA Series Media Flow Engines or on general purpose x86 servers, to extract high performance from the available hardware, enabling more enhanced scalability, thus reducing the number of servers in users networks, reducing costs associated with power, space and cooling.
