Broadcast streaming and ColdFusion

FCS would be great, the question is bandwidth. When I set this up for a station on the east coast, as well as multiple audio/video streams for their parent company, I used a third party broadcast provider - SurferNetwork.com. We encoded the streams on our side (we used Windows Media for it's quality to compression ratios) which were sent to SurferNetwork, who then managed the actual stream and bandwidth allocation. Smart thing, too, as our bandwidth usage per month would have far exceeded our dual T3 connection. Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Mike Kear wrote: > I have been asked to advise an FM radio station I work with on > streaming their signal on the web.    I dont know a whole lot about > it, even though I have had a show of my own streamed for 2 years  (i > have never been involved in the IT aspect of that radio station. ) > > I am web master of this station though and we have a site built on CF7/Windows. > > We have Flash communication server available - is that suitable for > streaming a FM broadcast signal out to the web? > > Last time i looked at this functionality, some years back, the only > real way to do it was to use RealAudio Server, but i realise > technology has developed a  lot since then. > > Can anyone offer any pointers to where i should go to start learning > about the current state of play in streaming an audio signal 24/7? > Are there any gotchas related to streaming it through a CF7 site? > (although i suspect it has nothing to do with CF and would go to the > web server directly rather than through the CF server). >