Chapter 19PlatonTV: A Scientific High Definition Content Delivery Platform

Mirosław Czyrnek1, Jimagedrzej Jajor1, Jerzy Jamroimagey1, Ewa Kuimagemierek1, Cezary Mazurek1, Maciej Stroiimageski1, and Jan Wimageglarz1

1Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznaimage, Poland

19.1 Introduction

Platon Scientific high definition (HD) interactive TV, PlatonTV in short, is an interactive Internet Protocol (IP) television service built to provide HD digital content to foster education, facilitate knowledge sharing, and popularize science. It is one of several services offered to the research community by the Platon project through deployment of dedicated infrastructure and applications in PIONIER [1], Polish countrywide broadband optical network. PlatonTV platform comprises a variety of components supporting various stages of content processing, from content production, through content packaging to the delivery to end-users, ...

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