Building A New Live Streaming Server Setup

[Guest]

I work for an arts academy in South Florida and we are looking to build a
live streaming service for webcasting our concerts. We are looking to provide
support for up to roughly 5000-10000 concurrent streams at bitrates of
100kbps-500kbps. If anyone has an idea of what kind of hardware (number/type
of servers) that would support this kind of load, please let me know. We have
already acquired an ingest station, now we just need server specific guidance.

 

[Guest]

How to Multicast a Live Stream by Using Windows Media Encoder 7.x or Later :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269073/en-us

 

[Guest]

I'm talking about unicast, point to point support for thousands of users and
what kind of hardware (CPU/RAM/#of physical Media Servers) is required to do
this.