Enterprise Town Hall solution Azure Enterprise Town Hall media solution enables enterprises to deliver high quality, live video streams to their employees What to look for Target this solution to health care enterprises seeking technological means to reduce cost while improving patient care and customer satisfaction Architecture Solution and reference architectures

Azure-based enterprise town hall Azure Enterprise Town Hall media solution enables enterprises to deliver high quality, live video streams to their employees. The solution is based on hive streaming network pattern A hive network is a distributed network of computers that help each other distribute high quality video Each client in the network talks to other clients to determine the optimal routes; also where to fetch the stream from and data sharing The result is a very efficient, robust and adaptive system that removes almost all network load while maintaining very high levels of reliability

Azure-based enterprise town hall Employees access information, confer with colleagues and stay productive no matter where their work takes them while increasing participation and decreasing travel cost. Key Benefits: Azure Media Services provides live streaming capabilities Users can watch the live streaming event on variety of platforms and devices Auto failover, quality of service monitoring is achieved with Azure Media Service

Solution architecture Business user Enterprise leadership use this solution for live streaming events via Azure. Solution goal Enable employees to access information, confer with colleagues and stay productive no matter where their work takes them. Increase attendance and participation while eliminating the cost of travel. Solution components This Solution is based on Azure Media Services featuring: accelerated distribution of live video and audio streams; supported adaptive multi-bitrate streaming formats; no required special considerations enabling clients to use existing enterprise infrastructure and scaling to hundreds of thousands of viewers.

Reference Architecture Preview Monitoring Program Azure Live Encoder 3rd Party On-Premises Live Encoder Streaming Endpoint Azure CDN Cloud DRM License/Key Delivery Serve Azure Media Player in Mobile App Live Source Multi-Protocol Dynamic Packaging/ Multi-DRM Azure Blob Storage Channel Token License / Key Devices

Reference architecture Live Encoder Outputs the live source for ingest into the cloud as RTMP, MPEG Transport Stream or fragmented mp4 formats Blog Storage Stores large amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data, that can be accessed from anywhere In the world via HTTP or HTTPS Media services Provides the ability to ingest, encode, preview, store and deliver live streaming content Azure streaming endpoint Represents a streaming service that can deliver content directly to a client player application or to a content delivery network (CDN) for further distribution Content delivery network Provides secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach and a rich feature set Azure Media Player Uses industry standards such as HTML5 to provide an enriched adaptive streaming experience. Regardless of playback technology used, developers have a unified JavaScript interface to access APIs Preview Monitoring Provides the ability to preview and validate a live stream before further processing and delivery Multi-DRM Content Protection Delivers content securely using multi-DRM or AES clear key encryption

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