SGI Origin 200 servers host up to 25 million hits per day for Dutch National Public Broadcaster NOSAmsterdam 14 September 2001 The Dutch public broadcaster NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting), in Hilversum, The Netherlands, hosts one of the country's largest Internet sites using 20 IRIX OS-based SGI Origin 200 high-performance servers. The SGI Origin 200 servers consistently and reliably handle more than 65,000 hits per minute all the way up to NOS's record of 25 million hits in one day. A single SGI Origin 200 server handled most of that record-setting day's work: 18.5 million hits, with peaks of up to 60,000 hits per minute. The SGI Origin 200 server used to distribute the RealMedia files handles more than 600,000 files per month.
NOS Web sites provide access to numerous NOS television programmes aired throughout the day as well as five radio stations, also available in the streaming format. In addition to more than 30 Web sites with hundreds of subsites, all accessible via the Omroep site, NOS has the overall responsibility of programming five on-air public radio and three on-air public television channels with programmes provided by Dutch media organisations.
NOS operates ten SGI 1200 servers for its Internet department encoder environment, using the servers to capture the audio and video signals and transform the programming into RealMedia files. NOS is currently considering the purchase of additional SGI equipment as it extends its storage capacity with a near-line solution, installs a new asset management system, builds an archive of television programmes and further expands its Web environment. As part of its ongoing convergence of broadcasting and the Internet, NOS's SAN environment, with Fibre Channel network protocol, has just been extended from 0.5TB online to 1.5TB with storage and brocade switches purchased from SGI.
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