Global Reach and Massive scale: Live Event Streaming

The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The 2009 Presidential Inauguration. What have we learned from delivering the world's largest live streaming events? The article "Successful Live Event Streaming" covers the essential steps involved in flawless live event delivery: identifying business requirements and user experience criteria, anticipating traffic spikes and common limitations, scoping proper signal transmission services, encoding and transcoding considerations, and protecting content from unauthorized republishing.