Enterprise Video Communities
What Bronson Does
Bronson is a rapid deployment framework for LAMP enabling buildling of scaleable highly customized robust membership, content, community and media sites.
Our offering includes everything needed to make a custom community-enabled site including:
Bronson Application Server
The Bronson Application Server includes our core software api available via native PHP and REST for managing real-time interactions in enterprise-class dynamic community oriented sites. The API is pre-built and extensible enabling rapid deployment of highly complex systems with arbitrary data-models and business-object relationships. It enables us to quickly model business-rules and community associations without data-model-up code-through. Our core application server is built to provide simultaneously robustness of application feature-set and simple speed and memmory management enabling us to achieve ultra-low latency with fully dynamic data.
Bronson Caching Engine
The Bronson Caching engine allows us to distribute dynamic data amongst a cluster of application servers to ensure best use of allocated computing resources. The caching engine allows us to scale smoothly across near limitless numbers of application servers and storage engines making it possible for us to grow scale our application into the hundreds-of-millions of users while maintaining our high performance standards.
Bronson Clustering Engine
The Bronson Clustering Engine allows us to distribute a given application among multiple front-end application servers even if they are geographically diverse, enabling us to take advantage of shortest route delivery methods as well as scale on inexpensive "commodity hardware".
Bronson Media Engine
The Bronson Media Engine is a tool for enabling safe media sharing within a community, it includes a real-time video/audio/image transcoder for sharing rich media content in a community, injecting advertising into media streams, distributing content across the web and an administrative interface for reviewing and publication control. Our flexible storage solution allows us to take advantage of distributed storage systems and CDN's to provide the best quality of service and therefore highest media quality at optimal bandwidth available on the internet today.
Bronson Distribution Engine
Communities today do not live in isolation and interfacing with existing "Mega-Communities" (myspace, google, facebook, etc.) is essential to the success of a community effort. Our remote api and facebook/opensocial hooks allow us to rapidly deploy mini-applications and communities within the context of the OpenSocial and Facebook frameworks.
Bronson Templating Engine
The ability to deploy content without complicated technology processes is core to any content and community oriented internet business. At the same time, as content subject matter and types change, the ability to create new content templates quickly utilizing existing structures is critical. The Bronson Templating Engine enables engineers to utilize pre-built templates as starting blocks for their applications as well as define their own templates quickly in the familiar and ubiquitous PHP programming language. Our native PHP api gives robust access to data to front-end coders making knowledge of sql or the underlying data-structure unnecessary.
Bronson Community Engine
Bronson's basic deployment scenario is for online community building, whether content-oriented (e.g. specific movies or games) or activity-oriented (e.g. dating, contests or appointment-setting) the ability to accurately create and manage relationships of various types across a broad range of content categories is what makes communities worth having. Our basic api supports friending, groups, ownership, membership management, security, messaging, favoriting as well as allowing us to extend the basic relationships simply and easily to fit any given business model.
Bronson Player
Sharing content without giving away content is core to any content-oriented business - getting consumers to come back. Having a great looking video player with interactive features embeddable makes for a more robust "sticky" user experience. Bronson of course comes with both a "basic player" but also a real-time configurable "enhanced player" built for easily integrating with 3rd party ad servers, as well as enabling in-stream interactivity such as chatting, rating, friending, etc.
Bronson SIMPLE AJAX API
At the heart of Web 2.0 is the dynamic web page, enabling simple data-transactions to happen dynamically on the page to provide a richer experience with less bandwidth and "wait time". Bronson's simple AJAX api takes the hard work out of building engaging user experiences and leaves you free to carefully decide what's best, rather than be limited to what is possible right now. Of course we're compatible also with industry standard AJAX frameworks like Dojo, jQuery or MooTools, but even those frameworks can take some work to get used to, our ajax api makes it easy.