Editing NCUBE (section)

===nCUBE-4===
The nCUBE-4 marked the transition to commodity processors, with each node containing an Intel [[IA-32|IA32]] server-class CPU. The n4 also brought exclusive focus on video streaming rather than scientific applications. Each hub contained one hypercube node, one CPU, a pair of [[Peripheral Component Interconnect|PCI buses]], and up to 12 [[SCSI]] drives. The n4 was followed by the n4x, the n4x r2, and the n4x r3. These last two were based on the [[Serverworks]] chipset rather than the Intel ones. The nCUBE-5 was very similar to the n4 family but incorporated two hypercube nodes in each hub and only supported video streaming over [[Gigabit Ethernet]].

In 1999, nCUBE announced the MediaCUBE 4, which supported 80 simultaneous 3&nbsp;Mbit/s streams to 44,000 simultaneous VOD streams, in concurrent [[MPEG-2]], [[MPEG-1]] and mid bit-rate encoding protocols.<ref>{{cite web|title=nCUBE to Integrate its Industry Leading Video-on-Demand Solutions With the Microsoft TV Platform|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ncube-to-integrate-its-industry-leading-video-on-demand-solutions-with-the-microsoft-tv-platform-77674197.html|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref>