Hollywood based MovieFlix.com, a broadband movie provider on the web will deploy Surgient Networks' streaming technology to handle its growing subscriber demand for on-line movie entertainment.

Surgient is a next-generation platform company that addresses the scalability and manageability issues of a distributed computing infrastructure. According to an official release, MovieFlix.com delivers a library of full-length movies, short films, independent films and television shows currently using Microsoft's Windows Media and RealNetworks' Real Player technology to more than 650,000 registered members and to its 5,500 MovieFlix Plus paying monthly subscribers. With an average subscriber retention rate of more than 80 per cent, MovieFlix.com has quickly become one of the most successful on-line movie entertainment services on the web today, says the release.

The company states that through partnering with Surgient, the company is able to assure customers and subscribers of high quality broadband service, technology being key to improving service levels and managing operating expense. Surgient's eQ2500 serves up to 17,000 on-demand streams and 14,000 live streams from a single, 3.5" high (2 rack unit) storage, compute and networking convergence platform.

It can take the place of up to 20 traditional servers and requires less labour to manage. Unlike ordinary servers or caching appliances, the eQ2500 assures stream set-up times of less than four seconds regardless of system load. Combined with industry-leading performance and a system application level quality of service management, the eQ2500 yields not only the lowest cost-per-stream but also streams with consistently high quality. Surgient's eQ2500 streams Windows Media-formatted content and RealNetworks media streaming formats.

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