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Windows Server Forum / Windows Media Server / January 2008How long is a piece of string
Hi, there, i have a few questions, advanced thanks to anyone that answers them... 1. We have two thousand users in out company, what sort of hardware do i need to be able to stream to them? Were a law company and traine lawyers will primarily use the system to learn... Has anyone got any real life examples of usage for this kind of scenario? 2. We have 1000 of these users split over 20 sites with small WAN connections to each site. Therefore i will need a caching server at each site. What does a caching server need to comprise of? Does it have to be another Windows Server box with Media Services? Or can it be an XP box? Many thanks. Mike > Hi, there, i have a few questions, advanced thanks to anyone that answers > them... > > 1. We have two thousand users in out company, what sort of hardware do i > need to be able to stream to them? Depends on the encoding bit rate. If you encode at 300 kbps you can do it with a single WMS streaming server with a GigE connection If you go to 500+ kbps you will need two streaming servers. A good x64 server with 4 gig of ram will handle it Were a law company and traine lawyers will > primarily use the system to learn... Has anyone got any real life examples of > usage for this kind of scenario? Sure. However, unless you are streaming fairly continuously, you will want to use a low cost CDN rather then build it yourself. > 2. We have 1000 of these users split over 20 sites with small WAN > connections to each site. Therefore i will need a caching server at each > site. What does a caching server need to comprise of? Does it have to be > another Windows Server box with Media Services? Or can it be an XP box? You can use a cheap dell sc445 with 2 gig ram at each location I would run Windows 2003 server (or NT) at each location. It is a streaming server so you dont Media Services. You would have one incoming stream fron the main distribution WMS streaming server (NOT from the encoder) and then set up DNS in each office to direct the viewers to the local streaming server. There is an example diagrammed at www.totalstream.net |
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