One of the most common questions used to be “how many people can actually participate in a live webcast?”. Well, this was a tough one. Although ePresence software is highly scalable by design, there was no actual infrastructure in place to offer an environment that can allocate hundreds or thousands of concurrent connections. All we could offer is to shop around for high capacity co-location providers, which often resulted in significant TCO. The new release of ePresence Capture addresses this by supporting all 3 major Flash servers (Adobe Flash Media 3, Wowza and Red5) as well as Windows Media Services and Helix. We have successfully tested our systems for major webcasting events against 3 of the world’s leading content delivery networks (CDNs): Akamai (http://www.akamai.com/). Limelight (http://www.limelightnetworks.com/) and EdgeCast (http://www.edgecast.com/). These networks employ so-called Cloud Computing technology for streaming content delivery.  We have also added support for the most advanced H.264 live video encoding, which is supported by all 3 CDNs. This made an unlimited rich media webcasting with stunning high definition video quality a reality.

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