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Using Erlang in a Carrier-Grade Media Distribution Switch

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Summary

Steve Vinoski talks about the media distribution market and how Erlang is used in a media distribution switch to control the video stream flow at speeds up to 200Gb/s and handling tens of thousands of open HTTP connections.

Bio

Steve Vinoski is the author of "Toward Integration" by IEEE Internet Computing, and has written for magazines such as C/C++ Users Journal and C++ Report and is the co-author of Advanced CORBA Programming with C++ (APC) with Michi Henning. He is currently a member of technical staff at Verivue. He previously worked as chief architect for IONA Technologies, HP, Apollo Computer and Texas Instruments.

About the conference

The Erlang Factory is an event that focuses on Erlang - the computer language that was designed to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-realtime applications with requirements for high availability and high concurrency. The main part of the Factory is the conference - a two-day collection of focused subject tracks with an enormous opportunity to meet the best minds in Erlang and network with experts in all its uses and applications.

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Jan 07, 2011

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