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Anonymous
June 13, 2008
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Multipoint Publishing

  • June 13, 2008
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The documentation for multipoint publishing says you need to use Flash Media Interactive Server. Can you get away with a single version of the Interactive server and have it broadcast to multiple Flash Media Streaming Servers?

We're looking to set up 3 servers in a load balanced environment. Since the licensing cost for Interactive server is $4500 and Streaming server is just $995, I was going to try to save $7k. We don't really have much need for the extra features that Interactive server offers other than mutlipoint publishing.

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flashmediaserver/3.0/hpdocs/help.html?content=00000095.html
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/compare/

Thanks.
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    Anonymous
    June 16, 2008
    yes, you can technically do it for sure (not sure about the legal part).

    however, the other solution of using edge configuration on streaming edition may not be the legal way to do (even if possible)

    From section 1.9 of FMS 3.0 license
    "“Edge Configuration” means a particular configuration and license of the Software for the Interactive Streaming Server solely for use with an Origin Configuration"
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    Anonymous
    June 16, 2008
    Does anyone know if the recipient Flash server in the multpoint publishing process requires server-side action script? Or is the server-side action script just required on the publishing Flash server? The streaming edition doesn't support server side action script, so that would be a problem if all servers needed their main.asc updated.
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    Nafania
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    June 15, 2008
    Yes, you can.
    The following example provide multipoint solution via "server side" programing. There is another way, via server configuration. You can configure your 2 Streaming Servers as "edge" servers ( like proxy server but for flash ) and give the client links to those servers via web load balancing application(asp, php, etc'). You can chose to use simple "round robin" scheam or you cam monitor actual load on the servers ( via API ) and distribute the load acordingly
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