Verivue MDX 9200

Media Distribution Switch

Verivue MDX 9020

Media Distribution Switch

Verivue Media Distribution Switches

MDX 9200

MDX 9020

Green Design Advantage

Power consumption and heat dissipation are two critical issues facing operators today. Increased video capacity requirements lead to ever-increasing numbers of servers, each generating incremental heat and increased energy cost. In fact, a typical video serving office can require dozens of independent rack-mount servers with hundreds of repetitive parts. Each standalone server requires network adapters, cables and supporting LAN switches with no economy of scale as the number of servers grows. By consolidating on MDX platforms, operators can increase the utilization of their hardware and decrease the number of physical assets needed. Its energy efficiency features include:

Modular system design allows common components like cooling fans and power supplies to be shared, thereby delivering power savings.
Power management software allows modules to be deactivated to reduce power consumption during periods of reduced load.
Front-to-back cooling in support of hot-air and cold-air aisle configurations that help increase cooling efficiency, a recent best practice in data centers.
A variable-capacity cooling system that provides only as much cooling power as is needed at any given time.

In this context, the MDX is an important new platform for operators to evaluate when weighing the relative TCO associated with building out video streaming infrastructure. With its unique solid state storage technology to reduce energy consumption and improve cooling efficiency, the MDX helps alleviate power consumption limitations emerging in many data centers.