Look at Red5's new edge/origin functionality. On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Ash Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Mark. > I have posted this in the Red5 group. > This has to run over the internet - not on a campus network. > If you think the numbers are too high, whats a reasonable limit that can > be supported? > > Regards, > Raghu > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Mark Winterhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I think you'll get better answers if you post onto the Red5 list. > > > > I'm really not qualified to answer, but just to give you something to > > think about, if you have 500Kbps video, that would mean you'd max out > > the connection if a dorm with 200 students is connected with only > > 100Mbit (and they probably won't switch off their P2P clients for > > you). So you'll need to learn about the existing infrastructure, too. > > Then again, you'll end up needing several servers anyway, so you might > > as well spread some of them out over campus. > > > > But again, I'm not qualified and you're much more likely to find > > somebody on the Red5 list who has practical experience with that kind > > of setup and can tell you something about potential pitfalls like HDD > > access times and so on. > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Subscribe Mail > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am new to architecting streaming solutions. > > > > > > Heres a requirement for one of my customers: > > > > > > 1. 5000 registered students. And potentially all of them could be > > watching > > > the videos (lessons) on the system concurrently. (this can happen at > > Peak > > > time - just before their exams) > > > > > > 2. I would like to have acceptable jitter at say the dimensions > > (length and > > > breadth) and the resolution quality of say YouTube. I would assume > > audio > > > becomes more critical than the video as this is a lecture for the > > students. > > > > > > I was thinking that Red5 would be a good choice to steam these videos > > to > > > these students. > > > > > > Can someone suggest the kind of hardware that would be needed to > > support > > > this scale of streaming. Also, can someone help me with some > > indicative > > > numbers of what such a hardware setup costs? I am looking for very > > broad > > > level indicative numbers. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Regards, > > > Ash > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > >
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