Overview
WideOrbit & HDTV
Remote Access
Centralization
EDI
Hardware Requirements
WideOrbit Advanced Technology Committee
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Overview
The WideOrbit system fully exploits the capabilities of twenty-first century technologies. From database architecture to advanced user interface design, the system leverages the most current and capable object-oriented technologies. As a result, the WideOrbit system gives television stations insight into and control over their business on a level not attainable with older technologies.

WideOrbit began researching the development our line of products in July 1999. We made the bulk of our initial technology choices (architecture, software languages etc.) in August 2000. The bulk of our competitors started the development of their product five to thirty years prior to our start. When they introduced their software, it was ahead of its time and 'revolutionary.' Unfortunately, in technology, a 'head-start' is usually a big disadvantage when more modern software and hardware technologies emerge later.

WideOrbit was developed to allow great technology flexibility in our software. We can accommodate group centralization, multi-channel, remote access, clustered or unclustered servers, and geographically centralized or decentralized servers. We are built on low-cost PC servers that are getting cheaper and faster every day. The cost of memory is also decreasing at an exponential rate, which is why WideOrbit users can access years of past history of WideOrbit data for little incremental cost.

WideOrbit uses a multi-tiered architecture that consists of Database Server (s) that contain the data components, Redundant fail over Applications servers that contain the business rules and processing and Thin Clients which connect to the n-tiers of application servers.