Why would I be interested in using MOREnets video streaming service?
Video streaming is appropriate for predominantly one-way video transmissions. These transmissions can be supplemented with interactive e-mail, chat or voice feedback. Examples include plays, concerts and other performing arts as well as lectures, presentations, speeches, opening ceremonies and similar events. The real value of the MOREnet video streaming service is that it prevents the member’s bandwidth from being saturated by requests from streaming video recipients. Streaming video is unicast, meaning that every recipient request receives its own stream from the server providing the streaming service. This means that the server must be able to accommodate the full bandwidth of all the requested video streams. For example, just four 220-kilobits-per-second (Kbps) streams will use more than one-half of the capacity of a T1. By serving the video stream through MOREnet’s high-bandwidth site, the site originating the stream can avoid saturating its own bandwidth.
