After you have connected the appliance to your network and completed the other basic setup instructions in Integrating Excelerator 2.3 into Your Network, use the information in this section to learn more about Excelerator streaming media acceleration services and to set up these services on your network.
Excelerator has always supported HTTP streaming wherein a streaming file is delivered through HTTP and played in a browser plug-in.
Starting with the 2.0 release, the appliance includes support for non-proprietary RTSP/RTP streaming media content and tunneling of an RTSP/RTP session inside an HTTP connection as implemented in the QuickTime* and Darwin* products from Apple Computer, Inc.
The following table summarizes the tasks you can accomplish using the information in this section.
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Learn about Excelerator streaming media support |
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Prepare your network and Excelerator appliance for streaming media acceleration |
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Configure your appliance to provide caching services to individual browsers |
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Configure your network and appliance to provide streaming media content to all the browsers on a network |
Accelerating Streaming Media to All Media Players on the Network |
Configure your appliance to accelerate streaming media content delivery from your streaming media servers to the Web |
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Configure your appliance as an upstream proxy |
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Configure the QuickTime players on your network to use the streaming media caching services you have created |