VERSANT and Fraunhofer FOKUS Demonstrate Power of Object Databases to Deliver IPTV

15.03.2011

Hamburg / Berlin, 15. March 2011 – Increasingly, rapidly growing numbers of users want to simultaneously access the same TV programs and channels. For this IPTV operators need technology infrastructures that can provide fast, robust and agile management of core IPTV systems. The results of a major applied research project has found that using object databases to manage IPTV delivers performance that is up to eight times faster than traditional means. The project was carried out by Berlin based Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (Fraunhofer FOKUS) and Versant Corporation (NASDAQ: VSNT), an industry leader in high performance data management software.