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HEWLETT-PACKARD DESIGNS NEW FILE SERVER FOR PAC BELL VIDEO PROJECT
Interactive Video News, February 21, 1994 , Volume: 2 , Issue: 4

As cablers and telcos search for file server technologies to drive video delivery networks, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is hoping its new "video transfer engine" will enable it to compress programming according to user needs.

HP says its transfer engine will function differently from computer file servers by optimizing data movement. Data in the system will be compressed according to the user's video quality requirements. More compression might be placed on home shopping video, for example, than on movies or sports.

HP is developing the file server engine for use in the $16 billion "California First" video-on-demand project. The recently-announced Pacific Telesis Video Services project is aimed at delivering video-on-

demand to 100,000 subscribers in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County and Silicon Valley. The envisioned service will enable subscribers to survey virtual titles and select films with remote controls.

Pacific Bell said it hopes to begin delivering the video-on- demand services beginning later this year or early 1995. It has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with HP which the telco plans to convert into a contract before the end of March.

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