Motorola on Wednesday announced a new family of on-demand multimedia servers that can deliver content and services to televisions, computers and mobile devices.
The M3 can handle video on demand, Internet video, time-shifted TV, network DVR and on-demand advertising.
It can be deployed in either clusters of rack mount servers or in blade server platforms, and supports "virtually any" networking topology or streaming requirement, including low-density edge streaming and large, centralized deployments.
The M3 family has four members:
The M3 family fits into the company's Media Delivery System, which includes the Motorola CPS-1000 Content Propagation System for cable and the BitBand Maestro content delivery network management system for over-the-top Internet video and IPTV environments.
Here's a promotional video further explaining the devices:
The new server family is scheduled to begin shipping in the third quarter of 2010.