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Karl Paulsen has spent over thirty years in broadcast television engineering and management holding key positions in operations, consulting, design, and systems integration. Karl is currently CTO at AZCAR Technologies, a global provider of media solutions and technology integration for the moving media industry. Previously he was Director of Engineering for Synergistic Technologies, Inc., and VP of Engineering at Digital Post & Graphics. Karl has focused on video file servers, storage and IP-based video technologies, including workflow, implementation and analysis for advanced digital media systems for nearly two decades. A feature columnist for TV Technology magazine, he has contributed over 150 articles to his long running ‘Media Server Technology’ series. Karl authored the book “Video & Media Servers: Applications and Technology” as well as dozens of other contributions to the industry. He is a SMPTE Fellow and standards community participant, a SBE Life Member and a Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.

Video and Media Servers, Second Edition is a focused guide for anyone with a technical understanding of video. This new edition covers streaming and media asset management. It also includes treatment of server technology as well as practical applications.
Video and Media Servers, Second Edition provides a technical understanding of video—analog or digital—with answers to many questions that surround tapeless, digital disk, and server based video distribution. Up-dated to address the universal shift towards the use of servers for the storage and delivery of video media, this book covers such timely issues as digital television broadcasting, the acceptance of compressed digital video and storage, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, and streamed media on the internet.