With a high-performance feature set, the Windows Media Server is the industry's most powerful streaming media server. Use the Windows Media Server's easy-to-manage interface to host, manage and deliver high quality video and audio content from your dedicated server.

Installed on your dedicated server, Windows Media Services 9 Series provides the ultimate fast-streaming experience, dynamic programming for on-the-fly and personalized content delivery, and an industrial-strength platform that ensures ease-of-administration, customization, and scalability.

Pricing:

• Windows Media Services 9, one-time installation fee - $100.00

ServersFirst Advantages:

Windows Media Services 9 Series provides simplified, more flexible administration and supports twice as many simultaneous users as the previous version—with increased reliability and security. Developers can integrate and extend streaming environments with the industry's most extensible platform, which provides:

• Increased scalability. Windows Media Services supports approximately twice as many concurrent users per server at any bandwidth, reducing costs to enable economical streaming for the largest enterprises and CDNs. The 64-bit versions of Windows Media Services can increase scalability by an additional 40%. Rich-media streaming extends multicasting capabilities beyond audio and video content to include Web pages, slides, and images, thereby maximizing scalability of rich-media delivery.
• Customized cache/proxy solutions.> Developers can build streaming cache/proxy solutions to control the customization and extension of native cache and proxy policies. Cache/proxy solutions are cost-effective and efficient, enabling organizations to conserve network bandwidth, decrease network-imposed latency, and decrease the load on origin servers.
• Flexible administration. Manage servers in virtually any environment through the familiar Microsoft Management Console (MMC), Web browser, or command-line scripts. Diagnose possible service outages or configuration issues with the Windows Media Services Management Pack for MOM, and use the information to correct server issues or optimize the server for performance.
• Robust use-limit parameters. Windows Media Services 9 Series provides the industry's most robust set of properties, enabling IT professionals to set limits down to the individual transaction level to ensure that transmissions do not exceed the capabilities of the server, network, or player.
• Secure delivery. Secure server-to-server and server-to-client distribution of content uses a variety of common authentication and authorization mechanisms, including new support for Kerberos and HTTP Digest. Windows Media Services also supports digital rights management (DRM) for on-the-wire and persistent client-side security.
• Flexible programming and plug-in architecture. Easily build custom applications for configuring and monitoring using standard WBEM/WMI and the industry's most extensive object model with more than 1000 server interfaces. Extend functionality and seamlessly integrate with existing systems and solutions for storage, billing, and logging using programming languages you already know, like Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual Basic Scripting Edition, and Perl.

Full Product and Developer Information

Windows Media Services 9 Series was updated for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating systems with Service Pack 1 (SP1), and for the new x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003, adding advanced streaming functionality and native 64-bit support for even higher scalability. Now more than ever, it's the industry's most powerful streaming media server.

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