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What is Streaming Media?
Streaming media hosting allows your website to broadcast Video-on-Demand (VOD) and audio (webcasting) to your users over everyday internet connections. Before the advent of streaming media, your audience had to wait for your media file to download from the Internet or a network server in order to experience it. With streaming media, your audience can see and hear your media almost instantly. The quality of the video and audio are only limited by the viewers download speeds.
A streaming clip consists of small packets of information that are sent over a network connection. The user receives these information packets in a "stream" and, using a player, experiences your media piece by piece. Thus, the streaming is almost invisible to the user. The process is similar to viewing a film; each frame of a filmstrip is like each data packet. When they are pieced together by a projector, you see the film as one continuous piece.
Streaming media, web streaming or webcasting has quickly become the most popular form of content on the Internet. Web streaming has proven to extend the length of time visitors spend on your sites. NationalNet can host your on-demand audio and video files in Windows Media, Flash Video and Quicktime and ensures high performance and quality delivery across the globe.
For more information, contact us at sales@nationalnet.com
