Dme Components; Streaming Servers - VBrick dme Admin Manual

• How you will be delivering media to the DME. This is typically determined by how your
media is currently being created, for example as RTP, RTMP, etc.
• How your clients will be viewing content from the DME and with what players, for
example with StreamPlayer, QuickTime, etc.
• Which firewalls, virtual networks, proxies, encryption systems, etc. are in place that will
need to be traversed and/or reconfigured.
Once you have a better understanding of these issues you are ready to start considering what
type of input streams you will have (RTP or RTMP) and how will they be distributed. For
example they can be pushed to the DME, pulled from the DME, or by unannounced unicast
from the source or an announced auto-unicast to the DME. You will also know how your
clients will be viewing the content, for example as RTP, RTMP, or both, using a standalone
player, an embedded web page, or through Vbrick's VEMS Portal Server. You will also know
whether or not the content needs to be relayed to another remote DME or to a CDN for
Internet Distribution. Finally, knowing how many users you have and the bandwidth
consumed by each will help to clarify how many DMEs and which models you will need to
distribute the streams. By gathering this information in advance, and reading this manual
carefully, you can help to ensure a successful deployment of the DME in your own unique
environment.
To help you understand the various options available, the topic Configure a DME Stream
defines a number of typical use cases—not all of which will apply to you. The use cases can
help to simplify the configuration. They can help, for example to avoid deploying a simple
solution in an overly complex way. In other cases you may also choose one method for one
requirement, and have to choose a different method for a second requirement, meaning you
will have two input streams when one could just as easily be used for both.
Firewalls can also play an important role in determining which use cases are appropriate.
When no firewalls apply, a push or an auto unicast solution can be easily deployed. However
if the DME is behind a firewall, you probably cannot reach it with a push without having to
reconfigure the firewall. Similarly, you can probably pull a stream from a source into the
DME. However if the source is also behind a firewall, more network planning, such as
placing the DME in a "DMZ" (which the source can push to and the destination can pull
from) may be a better solution. If virtual IP addresses are used, you will need to know more
about the configuration of the network; and if deploying RTP streams that will travel over
UDP, your firewall may need to be configured to allow UDP data in and out.
Configure a DME Stream

DME Components

St re a m i n g Se rv e rs
As shown in the figure below, the DME has an RTP server, a Multi Protocol server, and an
HTTP server for progressive download.
Each of these servers supports specific types on inputs and outputs. For example, as shown
in the topic Configure a DME Stream, the Multi Protocol streaming server supports multiple
input methods and multiple output methods.
The streaming servers and the VOD servers are built on a robust embedded operating
system.
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