The SVA 2.0 software manages the
Note that PVC operation is currently supported across all of
the above NICs. SVC (Fore Systems SPANS) operation is supported on
all of the Fore Systems NICs listed above.
The SVA-2.0 software is being ported to the ATM Forum API and also
interim vendor solutions in order to provide UNI3.0/3.1 access
directly to the workstation. The MultiSource and MultiView series products
can communicate directly with each other using either
Fore Systems SPANS or ATM Forum UNI 3.0/3.1 signalling.
Operating Systems
The SVA-2.0 software runs on a variety of hardware architectures
and operating systems.
We support or plan to
support all popular platforms in order that our solutions
may be applied as widely as possible within a customers
organisation. The current operating system platforms
that we support are:
Video Cards
The SVA-2.0 software is able to use the native frame buffer
and workstation windowing system in order to display video.
There is no need to purchase special purpose video hardware.
Our software will handle the display of both uncompressed and
Motion JPEG video streams.
When high frame rate and large picture size is required
it may be appropriate to install a workstation vendor or
third party supplied video assist card to offload some of the
video processing from the main processor. The JPEG decompression
cards that we currently support are:
Audio Cards
Most modern workstations are now equipped with audio codecs
as standard. The SVA-2.0 software uses these devices
to play out the audio streams that may be generated by MultiSource and MultiView
series units. The quality and flexibility of the audio support
varies between vendors. The SVA-2.0 software allows the user to
select audio stream parameters that provide the best cross
platform performance. Pleae note that certain IBM
workstations do not include audio hardware as standard.
In this case the IBM Ultimedia audio card is required which is
supported in the SVA-2.0 distribution.
ATM Network Interface Cards
The SVA-2.0 environment uses native ATM in order to
transport video and audio directly to the end user.
The ATM NICs that we curently support are:
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