VOD and IPTV technology provider, Kasenna, is trumpeting the results of a new benchmark test of its server technology. The company says its software can deliver VOD to 500,000 Subs from a single video head office.

The test involved a cluster of 12 dual-processor servers based on the 64-bit Intel Xeon processor (3.4 GHz), which were powered by Kasenna's MediaBase software, version 8.1. According to the company, the cluster achieved 135Gbps of streaming capacity, which equated to 57,600 MPEG-4 streams at 2.3Mbps per stream. Thus, the cluster could power a half-million subscribers.

According to Kasenna, the benchmark was carried out under real-world demand conditions. The benchmark was achieved using standard off-the-shelf server hardware:

"While other IPTV solution vendors focus on specialized hardware designs or very high server counts when attempting to deliver metro-class performance, Kasenna's vision has always been to use software intelligence and a distributed architecture to enable a high-performance, more cost-effective, and scalable solution," Kasenna co-founder and CTO, Satish Menon, said in a prepared statement.