IIS Media Services

What is IIS Media Services?

IIS Media Services is an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform that provides true HD (720p+) live and on-demand streaming, DVR functionality, and real-time analytics support for computers, TVs, and mobile devices. This comprehensive solution enables highly immersive websites to be managed from a single web platform, offering a complete multi-format media delivery solution and a proven web server

Highlights

• Smooth Streaming for uninterrupted streaming to Silverlight and other clients via HTTP, with seamless quality adaptation to changing bandwidth and playback conditions
• Advanced Logging for customizable client and server data, enabling real-time sharing with third-party analytics services to measure and monetize media experiences
• Transform Manager for automated job submission, scheduling, management, media transcoding, and encryption, handling full media libraries or a steady flow of incoming files
• Web Playlists for protecting, personalizing, and monetizing progressively downloaded media assets across multiple formats
• Live Smooth Streaming with massive scalability, full DVR controls, and extended engagement times for PCs, Macs, set-top boxes, and mobile devices, including Apple devices
• Application Request Routing for providing proxying and disk-based edge caching to deliver a better user experience by placing web and media content closer to the end-user
• Bit Rate Throttling for increasing scalability and reducing bandwidth costs for progressive downloads by intelligently detecting and metering media files