The PeerStream 5 Server Technology

(Multicast Streaming Configuration)

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From its working principles, the PeerStream 5 server technology is very flexible: the structure of the software offers the possibility to organize your streaming infrastructure according to your needs and according to the payload you have to handle. That means all available components can be executed on one single server or they can be spread over different numbers of them:

Here all blue drawn elements symbolize a PeerStream 5 streaming infrastructure which consists of the PeerStream 5 Audio/Video Server itself and one or more PeerStream 5 Suppliers which provide the audio/video media data to that main server. All these elements can be positioned freely within a network and may be located on different server hardware. Especially for the data-suppliers it may be very important to put them on the systems where the media data are available at. As shown above here more than only one data supplier can be used. That offers the possibility to provide the same stream content with different data and bit rates. Beside the yellow clients which receive the streamed data on your customser side the red management console, the PeerStream 5 Terminal, is a important part. It offers the possibility to remote administrate and control a streaming network. The same working principle is true for live podcasts except the fact that the supplied podcast data are transmitted using a separate channel. Because of this it is possible for a podcast server provider to to open its infrastructure for public use: this separate channel doesn't gives access to privileged operations like the remote management console. Here podcasters submit their data using a special podcast supplier software that is freeware and which accesses the server via that public but secured channel.

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