Foster City, California-based parallel processing systems pioneer nCube Corp, now almost wholly focussed on multimedia servers, has added two new multimedia models to its line, the MediaCube 30 and MediaCube 3000. The MediaCube is described as no larger than a tower personal computer, and the company says it can be configured to deliver up to 300 concurrent streams and more than 600 hours of content storage. It is also the engine of nCube’s new all-in-one nAble interactive multimedia development system. The MediaCube 3000 server can deliver from 500 to more than 20,000 concurrent streams and will support more than 24,000 hours of content storage, the company claims. The MediaCube 30 starts at under $80,000. The MediaCube 3000 is priced in scalable configurations at under $1,000 per stream. Production versions will be available in June, with alpha versions available immediately and beta versions available in April.The nAble system includes MediaCube 30, a complete Asynchronous Transfer Mode network, television set-top boxes from Apple Computer Inc, a terminal server and an application server. It is offered in partnership with Oracle Corp, and includes the Oracle Media Server and optionally, the Oracle Interactive Application Objects development kit. It’s out in June; no price was given.
