Adobe Flash Media Server 2 Professional (Win) Upgrade from 1.x Personal

Adobe Flash Media Server 2 software offers the unique combination of traditional streaming media capabilities and a flexible development environment for creating and delivering innovative, interactive media applications to the broadest possible audience.

This combination enables organizations to create and deliver a range of basic experiences such as Video on Demand, live web-event broadcasts, and MP3 streaming as well as rich media communication applications like video blogging, video messaging, and multimedia chat environments to let you reach your audiences the way you want.

With the Flash Platform, users can finally view high-quality, interactive video online as a truly seamless, instant-on web video experience. The new version of Flash Media Server 2 will now provide organizations with the most powerful way to deliver web video and rich media applications to the widest possible audience on the Internet.

Flash Media Server 2 introduces new Origin-Edge architecture designed to work together for large scale deployments by enterprise customers. Flash Media Server 2 has a unique, programmable streaming environment that includes a robust API for precise code control over media streams, assets, and features--like custom interactivity, user authentication, and bandwidth detection--to deliver truly distinct user experiences.

WHY FLASH MEDIA SERVER:

• Broadest Reach
  Flash is the world's most pervasive software platform, reaching over 98% of all connected desktops, and is distributed through Microsoft, Apple, Netscape, and AOL.
• Lower Costs
  Bypass the need to encode into different formats and develop multiple versions of your site to reach multiple platforms. Encode and develop once and deliver everywhere with Flash Media Server.
• Seamlessly Integration
  Seamlessly integrate media experiences directly in your website without having to pop-up other windows or browsers for a clean, cohesive look.
• Custom Player
  Take control of the look and feel of your media player to conform to site design specifications and promote your brands. Build custom players with unique functionality to differentiate your experience and retain and engage your audiences.
• High Quality Video
  Support for a new video codec offers superior video quality at smaller file sizes.
• Video Blogging & Messaging
  Video recording on the server enables rich media communication applications such as video blogging and messaging.
• Instant On
  A small, light-weight file format, protocol, and player coupled with a programmable buffer control on the server enable FMS2 streamed media to start instantly when the play button is selected.
• Firewall and Proxy Traversal
  Quickly test multiple port and protocol combinations to bypass firewalls and proxies and choose the fastest connection.
• Bandwidth Detection
  Detect the speed at which the client connects and serve up the appropriate bit rate video. No more confusing “Choose Size of Video” messages to your end-users.
• No client cache
  Audio and video content streamed to Flash clients via Flash Media Server is not cached on local client machines. Deliver mp3 files and other media safely and securely knowing that your website visitor will not be able to go to their Temporary Internet Files folder and obtain your media file assets.
• Unique transfer protocol limits stream ripping
  By default, content delivered via Flash Media Server is wrapped in RTMP. Because this is a non-published proprietary format, stream ripping programs do not have the capability to rip media delivered via Flash Media Server. This minimizes the ability for unauthorized programs to capture a digital media stream from Flash Media Server to the Flash Player.
• Access Control
  Flash Media Server provides a plug-in mechanism that can be used by publishers to verify and authenticate users before a stream is delivered. Using access control, publishers can prevent unauthorized sites from deep linking to their media streams, they can enable single sign-on usage or even over pay-per-view content and events.
• SSL Delivery
  For the ultimate in stream security, Flash Media Server supports encrypted delivery of the actual stream via SSL. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol for secure communications over TCP/IP. Flash Media Server offers SSL and encryption for both incoming and outgoing SSL connections and data. This provides users with one of the strongest types of security as a stream is being transmitted.
• Edge Servers
  For larger scale deployments, a new Edge -- Origin deployment option is now available for simplifying load balancing, failover, redundancy, and clustering.

Adobe Flash Media Server 2 : Datasheet

System Requirements

• OS Required - Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• Hardware Requirements - Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor (dual Intel Xeon processors recommended) - RAM 1 GB - 1 Gigabit Ethernet Card.

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