Chapter 2

Planning for Streaming Media Service

About this chapter  

This chapter provides planning information that will help you make the configuration decisions required to set up your appliance as a streaming media cache.

Before reading further  

The information in this chapter assumes that you have read the streaming media information in the Deployment Guide. The Deployment Guide helps you understand

• What streaming media is
• The different ways NetCache can be configured for streaming media:
  • Streaming media cache
  • Streaming media accelerator

    See Chapter 3, Planning for Web or Streaming Acceleration, for information about operating NetCache as a streaming media accelerator.

• The ways you can deploy the appliance to meet your streaming media requirements

Sections in this chapter  

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section A, Planning for streaming media configuration
• Section B, Streaming media configuration requirements
• Section C, Customizing your streaming media configuration
• Section D, About streaming object management
• Section E, Troubleshooting the streaming media configuration
• Section F, Tuning a streaming media cache for performance
• Section G, Streaming media protocol details

Procedures and option descriptions  

See the Appliance Manager online Help for configuration procedures and option descriptions related to streaming media.

Location of configuration options  

To access the streaming media options in the Appliance Manager, select:

Setup tab > Streaming

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