This is the era of the information revolution and today, more than ever before, we are being deluged with information. While the upside of this is exposure to more knowledge than was ever easily accessible before, the downside is that the sheer volume of content is overpowering existing storage and delivery systems. What is adding to the overload is the high content of audio visual materiel; materiel that takes up large volumes of storage space and requires a high bandwidth to disseminate.

This is where Jetz comes into the picture. Jetz is a powerful Video-on-Demand streaming server and system that operates over any existing IP network and can interface through Set Top Boxes, Thin Clients or PCs. Jetz has been developed and is manufactured by Jetzbroadband, a company with hundreds of man years of experience in the broadcast and educational spheres.

A revolutionary, one-stop solution that perfectly integrates off-the-shelf hardware with innovative, scalable software architecture, Jetz is a complete answer to a single-location VoD network or a multi-location, distributed network seeking high-throughput, multi-stream, broadband content delivery.

The Jetz solution comprises the Jetz family of Repository/Content Servers, Streamers/Transmitters and Middleware as well as complete authentication and real-time audits and integrates with leading Set Top Box and Access Network manufacturers. As such, it is ideal for educational institutions seeking to deliver high quality, on-line, audiovisual content to students in the classroom or in residence. Typically the Jetz content server could host everything from educational audiovisual content to course materiel, lectures, papers, projects and so on. In addition, the Jetz ability to simultaneously support Multicast, recorded or live streaming, is a tremendous boon for the broadcast of events, functions, seminars, festivals, etc. being held at the institution. The authentication and audit systems built into the Jetz software ensure that students are able to access only the information topics they are cleared for and also prevent misuse of the system.

Finally, Jetz is completely scalable and can support from as few as fifty to as many as several thousand concurrent Unicast and Multicast streams.