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To: Ed Perry who wrote (3736)	11/3/1998 10:17:00 AM
From: Paul Lee	Respond to of 17679

For a non-techie-- in a paragrapgh or 2--What does this all mean?

To: Ed Perry who wrote (3736)	11/3/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: flickerful	Respond to of 17679

ed.... thanks for the link, i was an early holder of aware ( and pair, and afci) and i have long followed the dsl issue, in the "broader" bandwith issue context. to find ampex in the center of the convergence themes was inevitable. i am off to read the nuts & bolts; thanks again. randy

To: Ed Perry who wrote (3736)	11/3/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: Glenn Perry	Respond to of 17679

Ed- from your link, webserver.cpg.com "Transmitting video and audio over the Internet, despite several commercial options, is accomplished basically one way. A request is made to a server to send digital audio or video data and the compressed content is streamed to the client (in contrast to the old days of download first, then play) and decompressed with the aid of a player, typically a Netscape Communications Corp. plug-in or a Microsoft Corp. Internet Explorer ActiveX Control. For best results, most commercial streaming options require a media server. Another solution, though not as good as a commercial streaming server, is to stream the media with the Web server itself using HTTP. The main drawback of the serverless (HTTP) streaming solution is the inability to control the amount of data streaming from your site. This will not be a problem if you have a small site with few visitors, but if your visitor count rises, your network can choke. In contrast, media server solutions limit the amount of data leaving your site by reducing the stream count (number of consecutive streams) or dedicating a maximum bandwidth for video (which is less than the overall bandwidth available) that cannot be exceeded." This must be what that Netvideo site does. They must offer a commercial media streaming server. To be able to supply many consecutive simultaneous video "streams" of a large video library, you'd have to download from the libary quickly to a RAID device that has a lot of space and an extremely fast connection to the primary storage device. Perhap this is where the Data Dock 7000 from Micronet fits in. You'd also require a lot of bandwidth to support all the calls for streaming this data. codec (compression/decompression) schemes will play an integral role. Anything that reduces the bandwidth requirement is a plus.