 Akamai Video Streaming Services
The Enterprise Services group administers a contract with Akamai to provide video streaming services for the Johns Hopkins Institutions. The service can work with source files stored on Akamai's servers or any local web server. The amount of Akamai storage is limited and must be shared by everyone, so local storage of media files is encouraged. By using the Akamai streaming network, no local streaming server software is needed. The links to the streaming media files or the contents of the metafiles are rewritten so that Akamai's global network of streaming servers does all the work. Johns Hopkins has a certain amount of bandwith allocated according to our contract. The bandwidth utilization will be monitored to make sure no one group is using a disproportionate amount. Here is a description from Akamai: Delivering consistent and reliable streams Akamai's proprietary SteadyStream(SM) technology ensures that only the highest quality streams reach your audience. For live broadcasts, SteadyStream uses sophisticated error correcting to send multiple copies of streams to the edges of the network, where they are recombined into their original-quality format. Broad format and encoding rate support Akamai supports all three major encoding formats - Apple(R) QuickTime(TM), Microsoft(R) Windows Media(TM), and RealSystem(R) G2 - for both narrowband and broadband use. For more information or to begin utilizing the Akamai streaming service, please contact webhosting@jhmi.edu with Akamai in the subject line. | 
