11.   The bill for a company like Cambridge-based Akamai Technologies, which runs streaming video servers worldwide, would run into the millions.

12.   The microprocessor in turn forwards a command to a remote video server.

13.   Today, Zia runs one of the most promising pieces of Digital, its video server business.

14.   Video servers are special-purpose computers used to store digitized information -- like movies -- and route it to viewers on request.

15.   Fujitsu is providing the video servers and all associated hardware, as well as an editing center to which the news providers will send their output for processing.

16.   Matsushita said it planned to apply the video server technology to such fields as multimedia education, electronic libraries, museum information kiosks and medical information.