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Video and media servers - Applications, architectures and parameters

Author: Jean-Noël GOUYET

Publication date: August 10, 2008

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2. Architectures

To implement these applications, various video and media server architectures have been developed, at both system and equipment level.

2.1 System architecture and software

Since video and media servers are first and foremost IT equipment integrated into an IT environment, it's important to remember a few basic concepts.

Server-based systems are built on either a centralized or distributed architecture. A distributed architecture can be either client-server, service-oriented or, more rarely, peer-to-peer.

  • Centralized architecture is the simplest (figure 2 ). It ranges from a server on...

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