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 >
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