Accelerating Streams to all Players on a Network Without Configuring Them

Transparent streaming proxy services require that media player requests are routed to the appliance from a network router or switch. This chapter reviews the different router/switch configurations and contains setup instructions for each configuration type.

The four router/switch configurations are

• An L4 switch
• A WCCP-capable network router
• The appliance's internal routing service, acting as the default gateway for the network subnet being accelerated
• The appliance's internal routing service, acting as an inline (main) network router