A leading telecommunications company is launching a content delivery
service. The content that is planned to be delivered originates at a variety of
sources, each with its own format and delivery method. A consolidation delivery
platform is sought to address the new need.
A requirement for an international content re-distribution facility that
will offer a data transfer service to affiliates, has
been introduced by the company's content delivery project team. The content providers will be delivering the
content in a variety of files types that would have to be deposited in a
repository and delivered to a subscriber upon request.
The content is forecasted to be provided from hundreds of content
producer affiliates such as news, sport, weather, financial, media, gaming, and
other content producers. Being at the beginning of the project, the company has
decided to start with a small number of content producers and allow exponential
growth rate in traffic, volume and users.
The solution must satisfy the following requirements:
§
Guaranteed file delivery
§ Polling mechanism
§ Complete management, administration and control
§
Complete reliability including
recovery, integrity and sanity checks
§ Ability to run external programs
§ Easy to set up and configure
§ Ability to distribute files from one source to multiple destinations simultaneously
§ Delegation of administrator rights
§
Ability to handle an average of
75,000 files an hour
After intensive tests B-Hub has been chosen to serve as the company's
content collection and delivery platform. B-Hub's flexibility and
"turnkey" architecture convinced the company to chose
it over another solution, in spite of its reasonably high price versus the
company’s lower immediate requirement.
B-Hub provides the telecommunication company with a platform that can
start production in a matter of hours. The proposed solution incorporates
SoftLink's cutting edge file transfer technology including FASTCopy, FEST and
LiteCopy.
B-Hub answers all primary requirements presented by the telecommunication to SoftLink. No customization was required to deploy the solution. B-Hub satisfies the requirements as follows:
B-Hub
One of B-Hub's unique features is its pulling mechanism. Installing daemon components on the client's side, B-Hub is able to initiate a pull job from any client using FASTCopy, S/FTP or HTTP/S. Integrated with B-Hub's scheduler, B-Hub administrators can configure automated jobs that can be fully monitored and controlled.
B-Hub provides comprehensive
management and administration tools that permit administrators to pre-configure
all B-Hub Server processes.
B-Hub's internal mechanisms and file processing flow are completely recoverable, whether interrupted by power failure or network interruption. Furthermore, subject to the protocol's capabilities, B-Hub transfers are recoverable from the point of failure.
With its "open" architecture, B-Hub allows complete integration of other protocols and external programs. For example, B-Hub administrators can easily integrate custom virus scans, cryptology and smart card programs into B-Hub’s daily work flow.
B-Hub is a turnkey solution. Following rapid installation
and initial configuration, B-Hub is ready to go into production. All configuration is done through the professionally designed
user-friendly management console.
B-Hub is able to simultaneously distribute files to any number of nodes, using any type of file transport tool.
To lessen his or her
work load, the B-Hub administrator may delegate privileges to users in predefined
groups.
Aimed at very large organizations, B-Hub’s thread-orientated design
allows concurrent handling of extremely large number of files. Using Window's
event driven feature, B-Hub processes any file delivered to its system and
concurrently handle all files, subject to cue and priority restrictions. The
only factor that may hinder B-Hub's performance is hardware capability.
B-Hub offers the telecommunication company:
§ Ready to deploy file and content management tool
§ Ironclad security
§ Support for multiple protocols
§ Pulling mechanism
§ GUI and Web based management, monitoring and control tools
§ Extreme scalability
§ A variety of client and clientless interfaces
§ Bandwidth manipulation mechanism
§ Reduced development costs
§ Guaranteed delivery meaning no missing content
Where large scale file exchange is required B-Hub provides the ultimate,
flexible and manageable turnkey solution.