Telecom network vendor Alcatel-Lucent on Friday said its new technology will cut storage cost by 75 percent to support pay TV providers to store TV programs in the cloud.

Pay TV providers will benefit because they can cut down the cost, while maintaining compliance with content rights legislation.

Several countries are demanding each consumer to have their own copy of a TV program they have recorded as part of their copyright laws. Due to this, network recording services are uneconomical. Since the cost of storage for individual copying is significantly is higher than a shared recording for all consumers, the Alcatel-Lucent solution will benefit.

Compared to a private copy environment, Alcatel-Lucent’s virtual private copy architecture means storage costs can be reduced by up to 75 percent. As playback comes directly from the CDN, latency is also reduced, improving the quality of experience for users.

Alcatel-Lucent said its virtual private copy architecture solves this issue by combining economical tiered storage with enhanced intelligence in the Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) to enable pay TV providers to cost-effectively deploy private copy cloud recording and comply with copyright laws.

Paul Larbey, head of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Video business, said: “We are developing a prototype solution based on this architecture that will be ready to trial mid-2015, with product available towards the end of 2015.”

Baburajan K
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