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How it Works

Vidiac is a robust N-Tier platform built on 6 years of research, development and ongoing refinement. The system consists of 70,000 lines of custom written code as well as some off the shelf programs to handle issues of streaming, encoding, and data handling. Designed to seamlessly accept a multitude of video formats, the platform outputs standardized Windows Media and Flash video for the greatest reach.

Bandwidth is expensive, server software is expensive, and the Human Factor of just maintaining a video portal is very high. Vidiac builds on a single platform distributed across multiple datacenters to create a robust solution and leverage economies of scale to offer video portals to new sites. For small video portals this makes the once high cost of video hosting a negligible expense. For larger video sites, you get the benefit of a fully outsourced IT department for either free or very little cost.

Here is how we do it.

CNAME sub-domain

Key to the service is giving a site owner the ability to brand the Vidiac portal to look like their site, and that branding starts with the address. A site owner points a domain to our server so when your viewer types "video.YOURNAME.com" the viewer is taken to our server and the Vidiac interface is then dynamically skinned to look like your web site. With the viewers coming to Vidiac, your server load is decreased and we cover all needed capacity to handle the uploads, browsing, and streaming views of your content.

Datacenter Architecture

Vidiac is hosted in 3 Datacenters to insure redundancy, and Disaster Recovery. Our servers are Enterprise grade machines running on a Microsoft Windows server environment in order to insure greatest compliance with Windows Media server. Our servers use Fiber Channel connected Storage Area Network (SAN) technology for the highest level of data availability and redundancy. Our software includes network and application alarms to alert management to any failures, or breaks in the process. Network connectivity is provided via (4) Gigabit Ethernet Handoffs to the Internet which we load balance. Hardware and Software scaling are rolled into our management process, so Site owners never have to worry about upgrading hard drives, network connectivity or software compatibility.