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How can IIS improve Silverlight Streaming? IIS smooth streaming enables for delivering HD streams smoothly on any device. IIS smooth streaming is an extension of IIS7 Media Services 3.0. It enables adaptive live streaming through HTTProtocols.
The downloads of HTTP(streaming is based on HTTP progressive downloads) are performed in a group of chunks, thus enabling the media for easily and cost-effectively cached along with the network and closer to clients. Multiple encoded bit rates of the same media resource are provided for letting IIS Smooth Streaming seamlessly and dynamically switch between bit rates based on the network conditions. This result in user experience is reliable, consistent playback without buffering, stuttering congestion.
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