Hey, cable: Silicon Graphics is back. (Broadband Week).(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, April, 2002 by Stump, Matt

Silicon Graphics Inc. is getting into the domestic cable video-on-demand service business. And no, you're not reading a story from 1993. The company that became synonymous with Time Warner Cable's Orlando, Fla., Full Service Network is re-entering cable's VOD space with a new Origin 300 server that can deliver 600 video streams for $255 per stream, the company said.

"Video-on-demand has woken up in cable in the U.S.," said SGI director of marketing and media industries Jason Danielson, as the price of streaming technology and the embedded base of VOD-enabled set-tops had made the market more attractive. For the past few years, SGI has focused on telco, cable and even satellite server and storage systems. "We were into the telco space, and the...

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