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shred444
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February 14, 2007
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  • February 14, 2007
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Hi There,
I'm from Northeastern University and I'm researching ways our television station can broadcast online using flash. Currently, we are using a 3rd party to broadcast (brightcove.com), but we are looking to bring this back on campus.

We stream anywhere from 3000 to 8000 streams per month to students and staff on and off campus. We are looking to either use an existing server on campus or build our own.

Can you tell me if...

Flash Server can run on a system that is shared with other users, or should the system be dedicated?

Does Flash Server use multithreading for dual core systems. IE: specs on the site say dual 3.2ghz Xeon. Dell offers Dual Core Dual 3.0ghz Xeon. Would this suit our needs?

How important is memory when streaming from this server?

Is there a clean interface to upload/compress videos and place them on the server?

Can the developers edition be installed on a desktop machine to be tested before using it on a server?

Thank you,
Our current website is www.nutv.neu.edu

-Jonathan
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    egyserv
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    February 22, 2007
    Read it
    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashcom/productinfo/editions/fcs_whitepaper_bandwidth.pdf
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    egyserv
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    February 22, 2007
    thats depending on the hardware and concurrent connection . also depend on the application type (video, audio, data) and bandwidth available from your server

    read the bandwidth wight paper about the bandwidth they are talking bandwidth concurrent users also hardware and application types .

    search in adobe website about it .
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    Anonymous
    February 18, 2007
    Actually, the specs are a bit misleading. It says "Pentium 4, 3.2GHz (Dual Xeon or higher recommended)", which means it can run on a Pentium 4 machine, but they recommend a Dual 3.2Ghz Xeon. Which is true...my development machine is a crummy little 1.2Ghz single processor P4 and it runs perfectly fine. But I can bet that the second more than 4 connections touch it the performance would be bad.

    My production machine running FMS 2 Professional has a single dual-core 3.2Ghz xeon. I'm only running a few applications and <100 connections and the server is barely taxed. I was thinking I'd add another dual-core processor to it when I had more applications/connections.

    For the same price of that Dell you mention, you could get two Supermicro servers:

    http://www.pricewatch.com/servers/993779-15.htm

    Good luck!

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