TEMPE, Ariz. - Cavecreek, a provider of wholesale IP transit, full-service hosting, CDN and streaming, has integrated Adobe Flash Media Server 3, which supports high-definition.
Provided by Level 3 Communications in collaboration with Adobe, the new technology deploys Adobe Flash Media Server 3 across the premier Level 3 content-delivery infrastructure.
The integration of Adobe Flash Media Server 3 technology into Cavecreek's CDN services allows customers to deliver H.264 high-definition streams.
H.264 video encryption, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 or MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding, has been touted as the latest standard for high-definition streaming.
H.264 compresses video more effectively than older standards and at substantially lower bit rates. It uses multipicture interpicture prediction, variable block-size motion compensation, quarter-pixel precision and other technologies to encode video with about one-third of the bit rate of comparable MPEG-2 encoders.
To address growing security concerns over content theft and tube-site publishing, Adobe Flash Media Server 3 supports Encrypted Real Time Messaging Protocol streaming, which helps prevent stream-ripping software from copying the file to offline locations.
Additional features include Flow Monitoring System 3, known as SWF hashing (verification), by which a signature of the SWF file is created and used by the FMS server to ensure that the stream can only be deployed within the signed SWF file.
For more information, visit Cavecreek.com.
