You can use streaming services with authentication enabled either at the streaming server or at the excelerator appliance. When authentication is enabled at the streaming server, the user identity is made known to the streaming server but not to the excelerator appliance. The excelerator appliance allows this to work over any of the MMS protocols.
When authentication is enabled at the excelerator appliance, the user identity is made known to the excelerator appliance but not to the streaming server. The excelerator appliance only supports basic authentication over the HTTP-MMS protocol. Care should be taken when utilizing this feature because it can conflict with streaming server authentication. Basic authentication is not set on the streaming service but on the associated HTTP service. For more information on basic authentication, see Authentication Services in the Volera Excelerator 2.3 Administration Guide.