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How to Build Scalable and Robust Live Smooth Streaming Server Solutions
As you may know, IIS Media Services 3.0 includes the latest smooth streaming technology offering – Live Smooth Streaming with which you can do HD quality live streaming with smooth playback experience. Together with Smooth Streaming enabled Silverlight client (link), you also get advanced features like full live DVR, FF/RW, Slow Motion, live Ads insertion, etc. Live Smooth Streaming has been successfully deployed in many high profile online events including the most recent NBC Sunday Night Football. To enable Live Smooth Streaming for such big-scale online events, we not only need to build great streaming and playback features but also need to make sure scalable and robust server solutions can be built to handle the massive streaming load as well as any unexpected failures in the network. So in this blog, I will go through the related server features and discuss how such server solutions can be built by using those features.