{"id":2553,"date":"2009-04-22T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2009\/04\/22\/iis-smooth-streaming-now-playing-on-an-internet-near-you\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T02:59:12","slug":"iis-smooth-streaming-now-playing-on-an-internet-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/iis-smooth-streaming-now-playing-on-an-internet-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"IIS SMOOTH STREAMING: NOW PLAYING ON AN INTERNET NEAR YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Whether you\u2019re a fan of Team USA swimming or not, you have to admit it was pretty exciting when the men\u2019s 4x100m freestyle relay somehow came from behind to win gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Thanks to some exciting new media serving technologies we\u2019ve just announced, you will be able to experience moments like this in high definition, both live and on demand, throughout the 2010 Winter Olympics and other online events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week at the National Association of Broadcasters Show<\/a>, we released IIS Smooth Streaming<\/a> alongside a beta of IIS Live Smooth Streaming<\/a>, adding to our canon of IIS Extensions<\/a>. These are both features of IIS Media Services<\/a>, which is an integrated HTTP-based media platform for cost-effectively delivering, managing, and caching media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of the old \u2018click and wait\u2019, with IIS Smooth Streaming you get a fast startup time and very little buffering so you can watch your favorite gold medal sport, show, movie, or whatever you want right away. IIS Smooth Streaming automatically and continuously blends the quality of the video to match your available bandwidth and CPU conditions to deliver the best viewing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Media companies can also take advantage of IIS Smooth Streaming features to boost advertising and subscription revenues with uninterrupted delivery, so even if you have to watch commercials, at least you can view them in true high-definition (HD) video (720p+). Hey, somebody has to pay the bills. J<\/p>\n\n\n\n And rather than reinventing the wheel, IIS Smooth Streaming takes advantage of the Web\u2019s existing infrastructure and brings superior performance and scalability to media experiences delivered using plain-old HTTP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n IIS Media Services<\/a> is comprised of five IIS Extensions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information on IIS Media Services and Smooth Streaming can be found at www.iis.net\/media<\/a>, www.iis.net\/media\/experiencesmoothstreaming<\/a> and blogs from the IIS Engineering team<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether you\u2019re a fan of Team USA swimming or not, you have to admit it was pretty exciting when the men\u2019s 4x100m freestyle relay somehow came from behind to win gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":20657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"msxcm_post_with_no_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[],"product":[],"content-type":[964],"solution":[952],"coauthors":[926],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content-type-updates","solution-server-management","review-flag-1593580427-982","review-flag-1593580418-473","review-flag-new-1593580246-692","review-flag-summe-1593580725-62","review-flag-winte-1593580740-13"],"yoast_head":"\n\n