Ultravox (software)

Ultravox or Ultravox Media On Demand Server (UltraMODS), is a streaming video project by AOL. The goal is to create something like SHOUTcast but for routers, so that the data is handled much better, can handle more users efficiently, and channel changing is much faster.

Marketing

AOL Radio is the primary user of this protocol on both the various AOL client software as well as Winamp.

Technology

This format uses "uvox" URLs, and can be viewed in Winamp. Nullsoft is reportedly helping AOL create Ultravox. Nullsoft also releasedNullsoft Streaming Video, which is streamed over Ultravox software.

Michael Wise is on the ISMA Board of Directors, [ [http://www.isma.tv/about_isma/leadership.html ISMA Board of Directors] ] and is reported as being actively involved in AOL’s streaming technology planning. In an effort to drive interoperability and lower distribution costs, he and his team are now working to standardize key parts of Ultravox, AOL’s own streaming technology platform.

Ultravox is implemented in servers and in the firmware of certain routers to provide efficient, scalable delivery to hundreds of thousands of customers simultaneously.

ee also

AOL Radio

Notes

External links

* [http://ultravox.aol.com/ Official site]
*CNet
** [http://news.com.com/AOL+aims+to+supercharge+streaming/2100-1023_3-939736.html AOL aims to supercharge streaming]
** [http://news.com.com/AOL+debuts+its+own+streaming+tech/2100-1023_3-966239.html AOL debuts its own streaming tech]
* [http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15533 TheInquirer - AOL to ditch Real Networks in Netscape Radio?]
* [http://www.flexbeta.net/main/comments.php?catid=1&id=2931 Flexbeta - AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software] (Read last paragraph for blurb about Ultravox)