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I an looking for feed back from people who know streaming video and video on demand. I am creating an enterprise architecture Live streaming and a video on demand solution. The solution I am currently using is end of life and I am looking for ideas on an internally hosted solution. The issues are the economy has reduced begets and the timing is not the best currently I have a architecture with Content engines globally and the videos replicate to these devices and the users can just view them live or VOD inside the LAN and the bandwidth is not that much of an issue. I am streaming live using windows media and a resolution of 320 x 240 at 15k embedded in IE so that there is not a large foot print on the network. I am looking at Flash and Silver light, but will continue using Windows media for live streaming. I need to have a solution that offers a library of videos that is searchable and has a user interface so that they can host the videos and it will encode and set the resolution with out me having to reencode all of the videos. I am just looking for ideas and maybe an enterprise model that has been successful.

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Hello,
to avoid stress situations for intranets you should stream internally with multicast and not unicast. That requires expensive multicast enabled infrastructure like bluecoats or castify solutions etc. Once setup, you can go up with the bandwidth and do 320x240@300k and even higher. The 15k you mentioned should result in a "stop-Motion" transmission. We -for example- do 480x360@800k for our customers.
If I understand you right you are looking for a solution of a web based "Media Server" that enables your customers to manage their own clips and streams. I favourize a solution from ThomsonReuters that would fit perfekt for your demands.