Way to go, SUN!

WSJ reports:

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Sun is announcing plans to offer cable operators and other telecommunications companies new hardware and software for delivering streams of video.

Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim designed the system, which is being unveiled at the Tribeca Film Festival today in New York. The Sun Streaming System, as the company calls it, includes the Sun Fire x4500, which combines computing and data storage in a single product.

The company says the new system can deliver up to 160,000 simultaneous video streams — 10 times more than existing products on the market — at a price of $50 per stream.

The system would sell for upward of a million dollars.

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How about a similar system at a lower price-performance point for those hundreds and thousands of newly launched, boutique internet-TV stations?