Live Broadcasting with Silverlight and Windows Media

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Live Broadcasting
with Silverlight and
Windows Media
Chris Knowlton
Senior Program Manager
IIS Media Team
CBS - March Madness - WMS
FTV - French Open - IIS
Agenda
Technology Overview
Enterprise Broadcasting
Internet Broadcasting
Technology
Overview
In This Section…
Common Media Delivery Methods
Unicast
Multicast
Server Types
Microsoft Media Ecosystem
Clients
Servers
Encoders
Content Management
Media Delivery Methods
Media Delivery Methods
Multicast
Unicast
Traditional Streaming
Progressive Download
Adaptive Streaming
Multicast
A single one-to-many
stream
Uses bandwidth of
Origin
Server only one stream
Requires multicast-
enabled networks
Typically requires
fewer servers than
unicast
Unicast
Many one-to-one
streams
For private and public
Origin
Server networks
…vs. multicast:
Requires more
bandwidth per user
May require more
servers