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Avnet Launches First Virtual Platforms Offering for High-Performance Video Streaming with Digital Realty

04/11/2023

Initial solutions enable video broadcasters and application providers of any size to evaluate, deploy and scale their services immediately and cost-effectively

 

PHOENIX Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) and Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) are enabling customers to virtually and cost-effectively evaluate, deploy and scale high-performance, capital-intensive IT hardware for video streaming platforms. The initial solution is founded on a 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ based server from Supermicro and integrated with AMD Alveo™ U30 media accelerator cards.

 

Avnet Virtual Platforms is an evaluation platform offered by Avnet Integrated, the global advanced systems integration arm of Avnet. The platform enables customers to virtually benchmark workloads on high-performance, typically capital-intensive IT hardware stacks. Once optimized solutions are defined, Avnet Integrated facilitates volume deployment and servicing of the prescribed solutions – providing customers with a single point of engagement throughout the life of the solution. Customers may then focus wholly on extending their competitive advantage, typically found in software innovation, and driving demand with their users.

 

The initial solution offering is purpose-built to address the growing needs of the global video streaming market which is estimated by Research and Markets to reach $224B by 2028. New, growing, and established digital content providers will benefit from access to high-performance IT hardware, the ability to virtualize their hardware, and efficiently outsource how they purchase video streaming solutions. Typical applications include:

 

  • Live events
  • Telehealth
  • Live eCommerce
  • Customer support & engagement
  • eLearning
  • Live sports betting
  • Live social and collaboration
  • Interactive media & entertainment

 

To satisfy the low-latency requirements of applications like video streaming, and enable immediate scale, Avnet is leveraging Digital Realty and its global footprint of 310+ data centers. This allows customers to evaluate solutions in a production-ready environment of highly interconnected facilities. Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL® allows customers to see how their applications will perform when deployed, without having to make the full deployment investment.

 

Additionally, to deliver the unprecedented compute performance required by these real-time applications, Avnet has deployed Supermicro A+ servers based on AMD EPYC processors & AMD Alveo U30 Media Accelerators. While this solution addresses the low-latency compute and bandwidth requirements inherent to interactive streaming, the Alveo U30 media accelerators simultaneously drive a reduction in the cost per stream and overall power consumption. Customers may virtually evaluate how their workloads perform on the solution today, by contacting Avnet.

 

“As the insatiable demand for high-performance IT solutions continues, the collaboration with Digital Realty drives a new level of capital optimization, for technology providers and customers, that also accelerates time to market, and scale, of these needed solutions,” said Nicole Enright President, Avnet Integrated.

 

“Digital Realty is actively supporting the industry’s shift to a data-centric architecture and is evolving its interconnection capabilities with an updated roadmap for PlatformDIGITAL®, a first of its kind global data center platform for scaling digital businesses. Our partnership with Avnet Integrated and the deployment of the first video streaming centric solution from our Santa Clara Campus paves the way for subsequent installations and the expansion of solution profiles (i.e. liquid cooled servers) to accelerate innovation where high-performance matters,” said Tony Bishop, SVP, Enterprise, Platform and Solutions, Digital Realty.

 

"The live streaming market is rapidly evolving and service providers are urgently looking for ways to reduce infrastructure overhead and the associated capital and operating expenses to scale,” said Sean Gardner, head of video strategy and market development, Video Transcoding Group, AMD. “The Alveo U30 media accelerator, coupled with 3rd generation EPYC processors, maximizes video server density while reducing power and thermal footprint. Now, with its availability through Avnet Virtual Platforms, customers can move from concept to production even faster to meet their market window.”

 

“Today’s leading high-performance video streaming applications need solutions optimized with the latest innovations,” said Don Clegg, senior vice president, Worldwide Sales, Supermicro. “The Supermicro 1U, AS -1114S-WN10RT, incorporating an AMD CPU with up to 64 cores, is an ideal solution for these compute-intensive workloads.”

 

For more information on this solution visit www.avnet.com/virtualplatforms.

About Avnet Integrated

Avnet Integrated is the integration arm of Avnet Inc. and globally offers comprehensive systems integration, business, and service solutions.  Collaborating with the industry’s premier platform suppliers, Avnet Integrated helps customers optimize capital, accelerate sales and deliver on their brand experience, ultimately accelerating revenue and margin growth. For more information, please visit avnet.com/integrated or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Avnet

As a leading global technology distributor and solutions provider, Avnet has served customers’ evolving needs for an entire century. We support customers at each stage of a product’s lifecycle, from idea to design and from prototype to production. Our unique position at the center of the technology value chain enables us to accelerate the design and supply stages of product development so customers can realize revenue faster. Decade after decade, Avnet helps its customers and suppliers around the world realize the transformative possibilities of technology. Learn more about Avnet at avnet.com.

About Digital Realty

Digital Realty supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers a trusted foundation and proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for scaling digital business and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty's global data center footprint gives customers access to the connected communities that matter to them with 310+ facilities in 50 metros across 28 countries on six continents. For more information, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Avnet

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