MANAGED SERVICES
STREAMING SOLUTION: OVERVIEW
STREAMING SOLUTIONS
Streaming information over the Internet is a great way of extending your news and information image in a wider
market. It gives you a substantial competitive advantage and is also a very cost-effective way of reaching customers
or a target audience with live information. Whether you are a traditional radio station or a large organisation delivering
live results or announcements to your shareholders or analysts, Internet streaming provides an exciting new channel
to engage your audience.
STREAMING SOLUTIONS
IS Hosting’s live streaming solutions are specially designed to provide organisations who deliver live streaming media
(for instance radio stations) with a state-of-the art streaming distribution network. The service is built on IS’ carriergrade backbone, and integrates the latest content-delivery technology. IS Hosting provides you with customised
streaming services for radio, corporate result announcements, events and e-learning.
HOW THE STREAMING SOLUTIONS WORK
The data stream - typically a radio broadcast, results announcement audio/video feed, an event such as a launch or
even an e-learning seminar - is delivered to IS via a leased or ISDN line, or suitable wireless technology. IS will then
encode and transfer that stream to a hosted media server (in some cases encoding occurs before the data is
delivered to IS). The encoded signal can now be delivered to your Internet audience. IS Hosting makes use of
streaming caches, located on the periphery of our network, to ensure that high-quality streams are delivered to users’
PCs without signal degradation.
SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS
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Cost-effective channel marketing: the use of exceptional content-delivery technology, permitting unlimited
concurrent users at a flat-rate charge, makes it possible to deliver streams cost effectively and with a
business return.
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National and international streaming: the streaming solutions provide both national and international
streaming.
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Easy delivery to your audience: your radio feed, results announcement or live event can be delivered
directly to a laptop or PC located anywhere.
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Synchronising and archiving features: synchronising a slide presentation with the video stream allows
users to view slide changes as they are made by the presenter. Investors have the opportunity to view the
presentation at a later date via an on-demand archive.
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High-quality delivery: we use technology that minimises bandwidth without imposing any signal
degradation. This delivers a consistent streaming quality for large numbers of simultaneous users.
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Online reporting and listener statistics: the solutions provide access to real-time statistics so that owners
of the content can determine if they are receiving the desired coverage.
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Service managed and delivered via the IS Hosting infrastructure: equipment required for the streaming
service is located in IS Hosting’s Data Centres, which are fully managed and supported. IS’ network delivers
committed levels of availability and performance.
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STREAMING SOLUTION: OVERVIEW
VALUE ADDED SERVICES AVAILABLE WITH THE STREAMING SOLUTIONS
The Streaming services have a number of optional components which you can elect to use:
STREAMING SOLUTIONS – INCLUDED WITH MONTHLY AND SET-UP SERVICE CHARGES
ARCHIVE
Data from recorded presentations can be stored for use at a later date. Training sessions
can be viewed at any time by staff or clients who missed the session.
CATALOGUING
This is a web interface that allows the viewing of archived slide or video media at a later
date.
INTERACTIVE
QUESTIONS
Online viewers can type in questions, and these are delivered back to you during the live
presentation.
SURVEY
A customisable web-page form that prompts the user for feedback. Presentation quality,
delivery and content can be assessed by the remote audience.
CLOSED
GROUPS
USER
REGISTRATION
PAGES
To restrict access to private or proprietary training or seminar material, the remote
audience can be asked to enter a user name and password that you have issued.
In order to track attendance and understand who viewed your announcement or
presentation, remote attendees can register first before they connect.
SOLUTION OPTIONS
All solutions include the capture and encoding of the data stream and use of the hosted media server. Depending on
your requirements, you can choose the stream size (i.e. bandwidth). Fixed duration events, such as launches or
seminars, have a time-based charge associated.
Option 1: Radio Streaming
This solution caters for live streaming from radio stations. National and international streaming and statistics are
included. You have options for either an 11kbps (mono) or a 22kbps (stereo) stream.
Option 2: Results Announcement Streaming
This solution enables companies to communicate financial results to analysts, staff and investors, nationally and
internationally. Included are national and international streaming plus cataloguing and archiving. Registration pages,
interactive questions and surveys are optional extras. You can also choose to stream the audio signal alone, or both
the audio and video signals simultaneously.
Option 3: Event Streaming
Deliver live or on-demand streaming of events. The solution is useful for presentations, product launches, training
and seminars.
Option 4: e-Learning Streaming
This option enables companies with geographically distributed branches to provide regular training to their entire
organisation without incurring the high costs involved in assembling all staff at one location. Included are national and
international streaming, cataloguing and archiving. Closed user groups can be chosen as an option. Finally,
organisations can use one of IS’ conference training facilities.
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STREAMING SOLUTION: OVERVIEW
PRICING
Please speak to your Account Manager if you would like to consider any variations or alternative configurations to
those shown below. The Event and e-Learning pricing shows typical examples.
Radio Streaming
Streaming Encoding (at IS premises)
Local Audio Streaming
International Audio Streaming
Total Cost
Units
11kbps Stream
1
1
1
Set-up Cost
9,000.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
R 12,000.00
22kbps Stream
Monthly Cost
7,500.00
13,300.00
8,300.00
R 29,100.00
Set-up Cost
9,000.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
R 12,000.00
Monthly Cost
7,500.00
20,700.00
12,400.00
R 40,600.00
Audio
and
Video
6,600.00
550.00
4,000.00
10,700.00
2,700.00
2,700.00
2,700.00
R 29,950.00
Results Announcement Streaming
Units
Audio Only
Capture and encoding (equipment and crew)
Archive preparation (editing, indexing etc.)
Web template and slide integration
Content distribution (live event and archived content)
Registration Page
Interactive Questions
Survey
Total Cost
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
4,000.00
350.00
4,000.00
3,100.00
2,700.00
2,700.00
2,700.00
R 19,550.00
Event Streaming – Example based on 2-hour event @ 28kbps
Units
Once off Cost
Monthly Cost
Capture and encoding (equipment and crew)
Web template and slide integration
Content distribution (live event) 2 hours @ 28kbps stream
Registration Page
Interactive Questions
Survey
Total Cost
1
1
1
1
1
1
4,000.00
4,000.00
3,200.00
2,700.00
2,700.00
2,700.00
R 19,300.00
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Event Streaming – Example based on 1-hour session @ 56kbps
Units
Once off Cost
Per Session
Capture and encoding (equipment & crew)
1
-
3,500.00
Web template and catalogue creation
1
15,000.00
-
Content distribution (live session) 1 hour @ 56kbps stream
1
-
1,000.00
Closed User Groups
1
2,500.00
Capturing at Client’s Premises
1
Total Cost
R 0.00
500.00
R 17,500.00
R 5,000.00
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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All prices are quoted in ZAR, exclude VAT and are subject to IS Terms and Conditions
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Quoted pricing is subject to change without notice.
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Services offered in the Durban Umhlanga Data Centre differ slightly – please contact your Account
Manager.
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