Video Processing with SSD Storage
For Edge Deployments
Codensity™ EdgeFusion E408
Cloud service providers and CDN operators are increasingly motivated to move video storage and processing closer to the edge, to save core network bandwidth costs, improve QoE, while supporting emerging interactive cloud video applications including cloud gaming, AR, and VR. Codensity EdgeFusion is the fusion of NETINT’s video processing and SSD storage technologies into a single compact, low power device ideal for video application processing in cloud edge architectures.
Save Video Caching and Storage Costs
VOD service providers often cache their content at POP locations close to concentrations of customers, to maximize the QoE of video viewers. With the EdgeFusion E408, you can store video content in a compressed format, saving storage space and costs.
Reduce Core Network Bandwidth
Streaming video providers often build their encoding ladders in centralized locations, and then distribute full encoding sets to POP locations for ABR streaming to consumers. With EdgeFusion, CDN and cloud operators can reduce distribution bandwidth and costs by sending only the original source video to the edge location, where the E408 can economically generate encoding ladders.
Optimize Surveillance Video Processing
Distributed video surveillance networks often stream their camera feeds to a central monitoring facility for storage and processing, driving up ongoing bandwidth and storage costs. With the EdgeFusion E408, AI and ML processing can be applied to the video at the network edge, to identify and then distribute only alarm and event conditions to the central monitoring station. Camera video feeds can be stored in a compressed format inside the E408, and then retrieved later if further investigation required.
Deliver Cloud Gaming, AR, and VR
Processing interactive video applications will require very low motion-to-photon latency. To achieve low latency will require processing at the edge locations to minimize network delays. EdgeFusion E408 is an ideal solution, supporting deterministic ultra-low latency encoding of each frame generated by 3rd party cloud gaming and rendering applications hosted at the edge.
Computational Storage with Integrated Video Processors
Codensity EdgeFusion uniquely combines SSD storage with integrated H.264 AVC and H.265 HEVC processors in a single device, to support both video storage and processing requirements.
Save Rack Space and Power
Combining storage and video processing in a single plug-in module saves rack space and power requirements where it is most scarce – at the network edge.
EdgeFusion E408 – Preliminary Specifications
| EdgeFusion E408 – Preliminary Specifications | ||
|---|---|---|
| Form Factor | U.2 (SFF-8639) – 2.5” Width / Height: 15mm | |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | |
| Protocol | NVMe | |
| Capacity Options | 3.5 TB | |
| Sustained Sequential Read/Writes | Read/Write Bandwidth: 4 GB/s | 1.4 GB/s Read/Write Latency: 100 µs | 20 µs | |
| Random I/O Operations per Second | 4 KB Read/Writes: Up to 350K / 50K IOPS | |
| NAND Flash Memory | 3D TLC NAND Flash (standard) | |
| Power Consumption (Typical) | Max Read: 11W, Max Write: 24W, Idle: 2W | |
| Advanced Technology | Enhanced Power Loss Protection Temperature Monitoring and Logging End to End Data Protection LDPC (Low-Density Parity Check) High Endurance Technology Video Compression Offload Engine | |
| Life Expectancy | 2 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) | |
| Lifetime Endurance | Enterprise Grade, detailed number is related to Flash Selection and firmware configuration | |
| Usage | 24/7 Operation | |
| Operation Temperature | 0 degrees C to 70 degrees C | |
| RoHS Compliance | Meets requirements of European Union (EU) ROHS Compliance Directives | |
| H.264 AVC Decoder | H.265 HEVC Decoder | |
|---|---|---|
| Profile | BP / CBP / MP / HP / HP10 | Main / Main10 |
| Level | L5.2 | L5.1 Main-Tier |
| Max Resolution | 8192 x 4096 | 8192 x 4096 |
| Min Resolution | 16 x 16 | 8 x 8 |
| Capacity | 4K @ 60 fps 1080p @ 240 fps | 4K @ 60 fps 1080p @ 240 fps |
| H.264 AVC Encoder | H.265 HEVC Encoder | |
|---|---|---|
| Profile | BP / CBP / MP / HP / HP10 | Main / Main10 / Main Still Picture Profile |
| Level | L5.2 | L5.1 Main-Tier |
| Max Resolution | 8192 x 4096 | 8192 x 4096 |
| Min Resolution | 16 x 16 | 256 x 128 |
| Capacity* | 4K @ 60 fps 1080p @ 240 fps | 4K @ 60 fps 1080p @ 240 fps |
