Technology Insider: Streaming media
By Christine Perey
Network World, 01/14/02
Streaming media is taking off as a corporate communications and training
tool. We take you behind the scenes of the technology, showing you best
practices, case studies and a feature on the individual streaming media
champions leading the charge.
Bandwidth,
video tools catch up to hype
Typically, network executives will not introduce a new application until it has
been demonstrated that the app will run at peak performance. That hasn't been
the case with streaming media, however. At large stock brokerages, consultancies
and computer companies, individual champions have initiated streaming media
projects on a shoestring and have waited for the user demand, the technology and
the bandwidth to catch up.
The
setup
Three distinct groups of technology must be combined when deploying streaming
media in a corporation.
Case
study: Video network of champions
When it comes to streaming media, General Mills has been eating its Wheaties.
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on investment
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