PRISM

Speaker: Amit Sehgal, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Computer Science, UK
Place  : Verizon Room, on the 1st floor of Hardymon Building
Time   : Thursday, February 5th, 2:00-3:00pm

With the emergence of broadband access networks and powerful new
personal computer systems, the demand for network-delivered
full-motion streaming video content has risen and will continue to
increase.  Efforts to deliver live and stored television are being
made.  PRISM (Portal Infrastructure for Streaming Media) is an
architecture for distribution and delivery of live television content
over IP, as well as the storage of such content for subsequent-demand
access.  PRISM also offers the framework and architectural components
necessary to support other streaming content distribution network
(CDN) services such as video-on-demand.  The talk will give an
overview of the PRISM architecture and describe the components unique
to PRISM.  The PRISM architecture was proposed by the AT&T Research
Labs.