Properties of RealAudio
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Delivers live or on-demand audio to your Website
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Delivery is real-time, with download delays
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Full random access, just like a CD player
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Full monitoring of performance and traffic
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Improved delivery with fewer packets lost
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Server stores audio clips encoded for different bandwidths
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Broadcast quality radio AM, optimized for speach, not music, at 14.4 kbps
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Broadcast quality radio FM, including music, at 28.8 kbps
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Near CD-like sound for ISDN and LAN bandwidths
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Servers are set up with different numbers of stream capacities:
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56kbps frame relay: 4 streams
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ISDN 5-10 streams
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T1 100 streams
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T3 3,000-4,000 streams
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