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Jetcast Overview

Posted by MeTV Network, Inc in New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY on Jun 13, 2007

Jetcast Overview

What is Jetcast?

Jetcast is a great way for anyone to enjoy media for free. Jetcast is your online portal to listen to radio stations and watch video channels and even TV stations any time you want.

Commercial Radio and TV broadcasters use Jetcast to save on their streaming costs.

Other content owners with original material like independent movie producers and unsigned musical acts can also use Jetcast to stream a channel quickly and easily without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth.

NOTE: For any custom channels unique to Jetcast and not repurposed from a broadcast station, all content must be either wholly-owned by the channel originator, or be properly licensed materials.

With Jetcast there can be an unlimited number of simultaneous users of any channel.

How does Jetcast work?

Jetcast is an optimized network, tailored for media delivery. Every user of Jetcast streaming services is a part of the Jetcast network to assure efficiencies. The originator of any Jetcast channel provides primary and supplemental bandwidth for the first level users who in turn share their bandwidth to help feed other users. Local groups also provide additional efficiencies on the fringes of the Internet. Together, all of Jetcast’s partners, resources and servers combine to form a grid network which is centrally brokered. The Jetcast network does not clog the Internet, but instead provides efficiencies that can not be traditionally achieved otherwise.

Jetcast also applies a technology to make firewall and NAT (network address translation) traversal. In the Internet, 48% of users are behind an NAT router, and 80% of users are using a firewall. NATs and firewalls can block the procedure of a connection establishment, and this can make it hard for an application to work correctly. Jetcast can traverse 90% of firewalls and NATs.

Features

* State-of-the-art technology. It makes your channel more available and stable.
* Minimal delay - 1 minute.
* Fast buffering – 10 to 30 seconds.
* Firewall and NAT traversal technology.
* Build your own channels with the File and Directory services.
* Streaming in real-time. Jetcast supports mms and http stream sources. Flash is coming.
* Souce streams must be CBR (constant bit rate), not VBR and such.
* Streaming media files. Jetcast supports asf, wmv, rm, rmvb, and mp3. Flash is coming.
* Bundled file types, such as .asx, are not supported at this time.
* Support for loop file and directory playing.
* Extremely low memory footprint and CPU load requirement.
* No files or content are saved on audience’s hard drives. Only system memory is used.
* Real time monitoring.
* You can play the stream with your favorite player, such as Windows, Real etc. Flash is coming.
* Memory buffering, no harm to the hard disk.
* Support for authentication for both the broadcasters and the audience.
* End-to-End security, encrypted messages, and high level security.
* Support multiple channels broadcasting on the same server/PC. Normally, you can run 5-8.
* The Jetcast Player can be embedded into a web page or any software application.
* The Jetcast Server and Jetcast Player can be run both on Windows and Linux.
• No spyware, malware or adware.

Specifications

* You start saving on bandwidth with the 2nd simultaneous user.
* Channel bit rate: 56Kbps, requires up to 280Kbps upstream bandwidth for infinite audience.
* Channel bit rate: 128Kbps, requires up to 640Kbps upstream bandwidth for infinite audience.
* Channel bit rate: 200Kbps, requires up to 1Mbps upstream bandwidth for infinite audience.
* Channel bit rate: 300Kbps, requires up to 2Mbps upstream bandwidth for infinite audience.
* Performance of CPU and memory (One channel),1%-10% CPU usage on 1Ghz P3 10M-30M ram.

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