CacheFlow introduces content-delivery products

(Telephony) CacheFlow has introduced a content delivery architecture that lets customers build appliance-based content delivery networks (CDNs) for managing streaming and secure content that is key to multimedia communication.

As part of that, CacheFlow plans to offer a centralized point for managing all content distribution aspects and team with EMC’s information storage technology as part of its data center-to-network edge storage, management and delivery system.

CacheFlow’s architecture will allow users to “grow with their content demands,” said Frank Cabari, CacheFlow’s product marketing director. “Almost every opportunity we’re going into in the enterprise is, ‘Tell me your streaming equation and how I fit that into my network.’ That’s becoming more and more of a trend.”

CacheFlow’s technology advances the caching concept and enables users to drive richer content farther into the network, Cabari said. This is where the extensible management platform comes into play.

“We’ve had a software-based content management director,” Cabari said. “We’ve now moved into an application form factor.”

CacheFlow’s extends its understanding of network appliances and how they are deployed to other systems--such as storage systems--through its EMC partnership.

“We can actually do real-time look-ups with them through these intelligent protocol communications we have with their back-end devices,” he said.

This allows the system to discern what information is on the storage device and whether that information has changed. Each change is then appropriately pushed out as updated content to the edge, where it is more easily accessible by end users.

Cabari used the example of an on-demand Webcast that has been stored for those who didn’t see the original live broadcast.

“If that content moves up to an EMC storage device, you can now set a policy that you have that distributed down to the edge,” he said. “Now, you can take it and automatically repeat it out to those edge devices and let users get a better experience, because they’re getting that content served up locally.”

The new technology will be globally available in March, he said.