Creating the Backbone for Robust Streaming Media.

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 2000

One of the truisms of content delivery over the Internet has been the unfailing ability of content developers to suck up virtually every last drop of network capacity with more complex and higher quality streaming audio and video. In some of the more well-publicized instances, viewer demand has brought some live streaming media events to a standstill as viewer demand overwhelmed the Internet's infrastructure.

And that has placed a premium on network upgrades and the development of a new class of streaming media hosting companies that, by siting their media servers as far out into the network as possible, are building up a more robust infrastructure developed specifically for streaming media. That infra structure building is laying the groundwork for all...

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