Kulabyte and M&A Tech, Announce AMD using with 4, 8, 16 Core Servers

Kulabyte LLC. as a developer leader of advanced video processing technologies, based in San Marcos, Texas, focused on delivering the fastest video encoding solutiony and achieving the highest video quality. Kulabyte Professional Encoding Enables M&A Customers to Deliver Faster, Less Costly On-Demand and Live Video Solutions. M&A Technology (www.macomp.com), established in 1984, provides Total Technology Solutions to Education, Government and Corporate customers. Offering computer systems and a wide range of networking products and services.

Today, April 16, 2007 on Las Vegas - at National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2007, Kulabyte, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies announced Release of 4- and 8-Core Servers and AMD’s 16-Core Encoding Hardware. The products, available 4 and 8 core servers for video encoding applications, and AMD’s 16 core encoding solutions for professional, broadcast, and post production applications.
Kulabyte has demonstrated, with AMD, the fastest video encoding solution with using Dual Core AMD Opteron™ processors in an 8 socket server configuration, using codec engines such as On2 Flash, VC-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. M&A partners include Microsoft, AMD, and Novell, etc.

Magdy Elwany as founder and president of M&A says, “With the explosion of online video, for training, promotional and entertainment purposes, our customers are asking for affordable, solutions for rapid encoding and distribution of video, and our agreement with Kulabyte provides the fastest off the shelf hardware and software solution on the market for video encoding. “We are delivering a customized PC product using the fastest technologies.

The Kulabyte Professional Encoding is a patent pending multicore encoding system that significantly faster encoding speeds and higher quality video, giving ability to produce content in desired formats with greater efficiency and economies of scale. Robin Rush, CEO of Kulabyte says AMD Opteron processors and the M&A solutions are ideally suited to the Kulabyte technology, which compatible with the widest array of video codecs and together, we can provide a costeffective, customized solution for a highgrowth arena. Kulabyte offers 2 pass variable bit rate (VBR) encoding in both live and on demand broadcasting, which enables media companies to realize superior picture quality, faster encoding speeds and optimized bandwidth utilization.

Another technology, the Kulabyte’s TimeSlice™ technology delivers faster encoding, noticeably improved picture quality and significant bandwidth savings, while utilizing industry standard codec engines. When use with dualcore AMD Opteron processors, tests show that 16 core encoding servers deliver a 60% increase in speed and efficiency over competitive multicore processing platforms, which llimited to a maximum of 8 cores in a single server. Digital media creators can encode, and distribute digital content at speeds 12 times faster than standard codec times. Charlie Boswell, director of Digital Media & Entertainment for AMD says The Kulabyte technology solves major problems that face any customer that is processing digital video.