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Streaming Media Services
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ALSO CALLED: Digital Media, Streaming Sound, Video Streaming Services, Streaming Audio Services, Streaming Video Services, Audio Streaming Services, and Media Streaming
DEFINITION: Streaming video is content sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer in real time. With streaming video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a file to play it. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream of data and is played as it arrives. The user needs a player, which is a special program that uncompresses and sends video data to the
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Streaming Media
| sponsored by Blue Coat
PRODUCT LITERATURE:
Check out this brief paper to see how Blue Coat Systems provides
an end-to-end solution based on MACH5 technology to improve the listening and viewing experience of an end user consuming streaming audio and video online.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Dec 2008
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Essentials of Delivering Video Services E-Guide
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
EGUIDE:
The largest component of network-related average revenue per user (ARPU) is video content, and so video content in some form is a key to revenue and profit growth. There are different business and technology strategies for providing video content. Read this E-Guide to understand which strategy is best for you.
Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009
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The Multiscreen concept: Why it's Needed and How to Get Started
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
PODCAST:
Multi-screen is the next step beyond Triple Play. Triple Play allows consumers to experience media on their mobile, their TV, and their PC. Multi-screen allows content to be consumed seamlessly. Listen to this podcast and see how both consumers and service providers benefit from this evolutionary step in multimedia presentations.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 09 Jun 2009
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Enabling the Profitable Evolution of Mobile Transport to All-IP
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER:
As demand for mobile multimedia services increase and average revenue per user
declines, mobile service providers must transform their networks to profitably support legacy voice and advanced packet-based services. This paper outlines the challenges associated with transforming the mobile transport network.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009
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STREAMING MEDIA SERVICES DEFINITION (continued): … display and audio data to speakers. A player can be either an integral part of a browser or downloaded from the software maker's Web site.Major streaming video and streaming media technologies include RealSystem G2 from RealNetwork, Microsoft Windows Media Technologies (including its NetShow Services and Theater Server), and VDO. Microsoft's approach uses the standard MPEG compression algorithm for video. The other approaches use proprietary algorithms. (The program that does the compression and decompression is sometimes called the codec.) Microsoft's technology offers streaming audio at … Streaming Media Services definition sponsored by SearchUnifiedCommunications.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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