Adobe Publishes Flash Media Server 3 White Paper
By: Stefan Richter
You can now download a comprehensive (over 50 pages!) long white paper from the Flash Media Server 3 product page (click the White paper link on the right or simply click here).
I’ve only read about half of the document so far and while it contains a good dose of marketing material it is also a great overview of what FMS3 is and what it can deliver in terms of features and performance.
The document describes virtually every server feature in detail and also includes some interesting and highly anticipated benchmark tests.
To sum those up: FMS3 kicks FMS2’s butt. Or to put it differently:
“Notice that with more percent CPU utilization, you can deliver more streams. The graphs were limited to 1Gbps and never reached 100% CPU. Higher data rates resulted in faster saturation, while lower data rates used more CPU to deliver similar connections.”
But there was something else that caught my eye in this document, it was one single word on page 8… and I’ll cover that in a separate post.
