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whitepaper Enterprise Streaming: Different Challenges From Internet Streaming2005-12-22 01:01:52 Hewlett-Packard
  Media streaming over the best-effort public Internet has been a focus of research for over a decade. Enterprise or corporate streaming is another area of media streaming that is practically very important and has a different set of challenges and feasible solutions. The goal of this paper is to describe enterprise streaming and identify the basic differences between typical Internet streaming and enterprise streaming, and how these differences alter the challenges that must be overcome for enterprise streaming to be successful.   
whitepaper DJammer: A New Digital, Mobile, Virtual, Personal Musical Instrument2005-09-13 03:00:03 Hewlett-Packard
  Named for the combination of the words DJ and Jamming, the DJammer allows its users to manipulate their music using standard DJ techniques as well as interact with others in virtual jam sessions through the exchange and sharing of multiple music streams. This paper describes the evolution of the DJammer including the interactive process and evaluation which led to the latest prototype. This latest prototype allows its users to "touch" their digital music through single-handed manipulation and control.   
whitepaper Bandwidth Estimation and Robust Video Streaming Over 802.11e Wireless LANs2006-05-12 01:00:28 Georgia Institute of Technology
  Streaming high quality Audio/Video (AV) from home media sources to TV sets over a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is a challenging problem because of the fluctuating bandwidth caused by interference. The approach discussed in this paper is to adjust the video bit-rate dynamically in order to improve the experienced audiovisual quality. The effectiveness of rate adaptation depends on the accurate and timely estimation of the available bandwidth. This paper specifically focuses on robust video streaming with IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) enhancements for Quality-of-Service (QoS).   
whitepaper Time Travel With Windows XP Media Center2005-08-11 03:00:02
  This paper discusses writing background add-ins for Windows XP Media Center 2005, and demonstrates how to write an add-in that allows a user to enter a time code on the remote control, causing Media Center to jump to that location in the current media playback. Media Center has been programmed by its development team to respond to certain commands from the remote control, and depending on the current media experience within Media Center, that behavior changes.   
whitepaper Delivering Cost-Effective Advanced Video Services: Intel and Kasenna Combine to Enable Scalable Triple-Play Solutions2005-09-29 03:00:02
  Delivering advanced video services promises to be an ideal strategy for service providers who wish to increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and remain competitive. Video on Demand (VOD) and Personal Video Recorder (PVR) services have a strong appeal for customers when delivered as part of a "triple play" that also includes voice and data services. By combining a wide variety of technologies, including 64-bit Intel Xeon processors and open standards such as AdvancedTCA and the Linux operating system, Kasenna has built a cost-effective, comprehensive solution for service providers who wish to deploy advanced video services now, scale them easily as demand increases, and add new digital services as they enter the marketplace.   
whitepaper Differentiating the Business Value of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services2006-02-10 16:25:51
  Microsoft customers and partners have asked for more information that differentiates and more clearly articulates the business value of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003. This white paper is for business decision makers and IT-focused business professionals who work in medium and large organizations that have deployed or are evaluating the deployment of Windows SharePoint Services and want a better understanding of SharePoint Portal Server.   
whitepaper Rate Control for Streaming Video Over Wireless2006-05-12 01:00:28 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  Rate control is an important issue in video streaming applications for both wired and wireless networks. A widely accepted rate control method in wired networks is TCP Friendly Rate control (TFRC). It is an equation based rate control in which the TCP Friendly rate is determined as a function of packet loss rate, round trip time and packet size. TFRC assumes that packet loss in wired networks is primarily due to congestion, and as such is not applicable to wireless networks in which the main cause of packet loss is at the physical layer. This paper reviews existing approaches to solve this problem. Then it proposes multiple TFRC connections as an end-to-end rate control solution for wireless video streaming.   
whitepaper Taking Music to the Next Level of Mobility and Personalization2005-10-11 03:00:02
  Sony StreamMan is an exciting new service that responds to a rapidly increasing consumer demand for personal music entertainment on the mobile phone. As well as offering instant access to a vast library of music on demand, StreamMan also allows users to download songs to their mobile phones, access special community features, such as messaging, and even listen to personalized channels and playlists on their PC via broadband. StreamMan is the next generation of mobile phone entertainment and represents a major opportunity for telecommunication providers to enhance their service to customers.   
whitepaper Optimizing Microsoft Windows Media Services 9 Series2006-11-01 01:00:29 Microsoft
  Microsoft Windows Media Services 9 Series is the distribution component of the Windows Media 9 Series platform. It has been completely redesigned since its last release in order to add new features and improve performance and scalability. This paper describes performance tests that were conducted in a controlled lab environment and includes tuning recommendations that will help the reader to achieve optimal performance from the Windows Media server.   
whitepaper Calibration and Prediction of Streaming-Server Performance2005-12-01 01:00:02 Hewlett-Packard
  Streaming media is gaining in popularity for viewing both, video-on-demand content as well as live Webcasts. Streaming servers must meet strict data-delivery timing constraints in order to provide acceptable viewing quality. These constraints can be achieved only if the servers are not allowed to exceed their operational saturation point. At the same time, providers of streaming services need to maximize the use of their infrastructure to remain cost-effective. These competing goals motivate development of detailed models that predict server saturation points under extremely diverse workloads. This paper proposes a methodology that can build predictive models using a relatively small number of calibration workloads.