Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Looking at daily scenarios for media
usage
With some examples being more explicit than others, here's a sample of the situations
you might already face or will face soon. Such a platform as MediaDrop can resolve
them by nature:
• You have been requested to build a media system that is able to display
a presentation video clip of a product you intend to promote (in a market,
company, and so on).
A BeagleBone board with remote management will be
handy, most of all if you have a lot of videos to handle
.
• From the precedent point,
compare the different PC and BeagleBone budgets
.
• Your wife asked you to watch the latest TV show episode from Netflix,
but she doesn't want to use any computer for it.
Really?
• As an employee, you want to improve yourself. Having access to e-learning
would be a good thing. Does the local proxy server grant you access to such
media-related things?
A local device having access to local contents is so easy to
deploy for each desktop
.
• A company wants its employees to use internal communication—
easy and fast
as podcasts by using the boards on the local network
Down in the cave is a server without a
head - headless servers
Behind such a strange title are the motivations for the server that you will optimize
needing to be headless. Even though BeagleBone is able to display GUIs, shiny
graphics, and desktops, you need to get used to interacting with your server
as if you are
in a cave with limited light
and no eye-candy gadgets. Here are some of the reasons why:
•
Resources
: The most important reason is that a graphical desktop consumes
the most amount of resources. Consider not only the GUI resources but also
the graphical server it relies on; therefore, it needs more CPU, memory, and
disk space.
•
Space
: Our server can be physically anywhere. Thanks to its reduced
dimensions, it is easy to put BeagleBone in a place and forget about it.
This can be next to the desktop, behind your monitor, in a cupboard,
and in your car as well.
