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Anonymous
June 13, 2009
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FMS in a live broadcasting setup?

  • June 13, 2009
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Hello,

I am looking for a solutions to live broadcast video on the internet, where the live broadcasting is on location and needs to transfer the video made to the server throw a standard (mobile) internet connection. After this the server would need to broadcast it directly to the internet.

Now is my question how can i manage something like this whit FMS?

And how is the traffic acts? like if i would send 500kbps to each user and have 10.000 users I need a 5gbps connection?

I am looking for a solutions whit as many users as possible (250.000) whit a minus of 10.000, so there will be loadbalancers and more than 1 server involved in this. Anyone can give some directions how to manage this?

Thanks in advance!

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    Anonymous
    June 15, 2009

    Ah ok well my first goal is 10.000 users whit 5 servers and a loadbalancer whit failover setup.

    I am more concerned about a good upload speed then the connectivity about the mobile internet lines in The Netherlands. Almost the full country has been covered for mobile internet however the upload speed varies from 1.4mbps to 64kbps on paper. The actual source will not move at time of broadcasting however it will be a mobile installation what can be installed on several places.

    So I suppose I would need to buy 5 licenses of FMS and link them together so they will act like one? And how stable is FMS in stress situations? cause I can’t have it that the software fails when broadcasting live.

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    Anonymous
    June 15, 2009

    You can use FMS for this. If you're using a mobile broadband connection, you might have problems if the broadcaster is moving (cell networks have a hard time maintaining constant connection when the wireless point is in motion).

    You are correct about bandwidth... the requirements are #of clients * video bitrate.

    For 250,000 users, you're talking about a lot more than one server. With your 500kbps figure, you're looking at a farm of 50+ servers and a lot of bandwidth. It might make better sense to use a CDN with a large network (like Akamai or Level3)

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