Windows Media Services
Windows
Media Services is completely integrated with Windows® 2000 Server,
allowing organizations to integrate streaming multimedia into applications
that facilitate corporate communications, e-learning, customer and sales
support, news and entertainment services, and product promotions. With
Windows Media Services, organizations can configure and manage
high-quality digital media content across the Internet and
intranets—delivering live and on-demand content to the maximum number of
users.
Specifically, Windows Media Services lets organizations:www.tartoos.com
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Attract and retain potential Web site visitors.www.tartoos.com
Generating the initial interest in a company Web site is a small part of
doing business in an online environment—organizations must also support
the large number of users attracted to their sites. Windows Media
Services provides industry-leading scalability, increased and efficient
bandwidth support, premium video and audio enhancements, simplified
setup processes, and built-in system protections to meet unusually heavy
demands.
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Share
and publish online information.www.tartoos.com
Windows Media Services offers the simplest and fastest encoding of
digital audio and video, and seamless integration with the browser (both
Internet Explorer and Netscape). Integrating streaming media with
improved features and services simplifies many e-commerce
processes—including creating pay-per-view applications, billing
customers, monitoring client traffic and usage, securing transactions,
encrypting audio and video content, and improving ways to promote and
distribute content.
Use new audio and video Web enhancements.www.tartoos.com
Windows Media Services includes wizards and automated processes to
simplify setup procedures, control
access to streaming media content, manage large multicast presentations,
and create unique interactive multimedia broadcasts. Using Windows Media
Services and its Web-enhanced features, network administrators can also
develop Web sites that are more secure and reliable, and easier to manage.
Attract and Retain Visitors
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Feature |
Description |
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Scalability |
Windows
Media Services offer a wide range of bandwidth support, delivering live
broadcasts and streaming-stored multimedia content at bit rates as low
as 28 kbps and as high as 6 Mbps. Windows Media Services can scale to
meet unusually heavy user demand, enabling content providers to host
large Internet broadcasts. A single server can scale to support as many
as 9,000 simultaneous user connections. |
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Built-in
Multicasting Support |
With its
scalability and bandwidth support, Windows Media Services provides
optimal multicast support, letting a business conserve network bandwidth
while supporting very large audiences during multimedia events and
broadcasts. Managing server environments and multicast streams is
simplified with new administrative wizards. |
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Intelligent Streaming |
To help
optimize the user experience, Windows Media Services lets companies
reduce network disruptions that might adversely affect streaming media
presentations. Intelligent Streaming technology protects content from
network problems and packet losses. Multiple bit rates are encoded in
the same file, and client and server communicate with each other to
dynamically determine the appropriate stream, based on network
conditions. Intelligent Streaming can be used for both Windows Media
files and live-encoded streams. |
Share and Publish Information
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Feature |
Description |
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Integration with PowerPoint 2000 Presentation Broadcast |
With the
new Presentation Broadcasting feature of Microsoft PowerPoint® 2000,
Windows Media Services helps presenters create slides that incorporate
audio, video, and slide animations. They can publish and distribute
information—offering the presentation to any user with a Web browser. |
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Enhanced
Commerce Capabilities |
Windows
Media Services works in conjunction with the Microsoft BackOffice®
family and Microsoft Office products to promote and manage e-commerce.
Without having to write custom code, users can implement commerce
solutions for their enterprise Web sites. |
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Reduced
Content Piracy (with Digital Rights Management) |
Windows
Media Services includes the Digital Rights Manager, which allows
copyright holders to securely package, promote, sell, and distribute
their audio and video content assets and intellectual property over the
Internet. The Digital Rights Manager encrypts the content and informs
end users of its authenticity. |
Use Audio and Video Enhancementswww.tartoos.com
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Feature |
Description |
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Easy, Full
Control Server Administration |
With the
new administrator interface, Windows Media Services lets companies apply
a simplified and automated process to configure unicast and multicast
broadcasts. Using enhanced wizards to control and manipulate multiple
content streams, a content provider can simulate live
broadcasts—creating, for example, a series of pre-recorded clips such as
news, commercials, and weather.
To prevent disruptions caused by network overload, organizations can
use the scalability and unicast features of Windows Media
Services—limiting server bandwidth, file bit rate, and the number of
client connections, and managing network resources.
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Familiar
Windows Interface |
Since
Windows Media Services is also a component of Windows 2000 Site Server,
administrators can use the same simplified management tools and
interface to impose security and to control access to streaming media
content. Using stream authentication, administrators can obtain media
transaction delivery and secure access, no matter where presentations
are distributed. In addition, administrators can log statistics for
large-scale multicast presentations, measure server activity, and
monitor overall site activity. |
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Two-Way
Interactivity (via Chat Service Integration) |
To create
highly interactive multimedia broadcasts and events, a company can
integrate Windows Media Services with the chat services of any Internet
content provider (ICP). The combined features of chat and streaming
media can encourage users to remain on Web sites for longer periods of
time. |
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Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Add-On Opportunities |
The
world's leading server applications—from messaging and groupware to
database and data warehousing—are developed primarily for the Windows
Server platform. With support for Windows Media Services from such a
wide array of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), value-added products
such as streaming media servers present unique opportunities. For
instance, by using server-side Application Program Interfaces (APIs),
ISVs can offer products that use the functionality of Windows Media
Services for unicast and multicast broadcastingwww.tartoos.com |
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