1. Enterprise Town Hall solution
Azure Enterprise Town Hall media solution enables enterprises to deliver high quality, live video streams to their employees
What to look for
Target this solution to health care enterprises seeking technological means to reduce cost while improving patient care and customer satisfaction
Architecture
Solution and reference architectures

2. Azure-based enterprise town hall
Azure Enterprise Town Hall media solution enables enterprises to deliver high quality, live video streams to their employees.
The solution is based on hive streaming network pattern
A hive network is a distributed network of computers that help each other distribute high quality video
Each client in the network talks to other clients to determine the optimal routes; also where to fetch the stream from and data sharing
The result is a very efficient, robust and adaptive system that removes almost all network load while maintaining very high levels of reliability

3. Azure-based enterprise town hall
Employees access information, confer with colleagues and stay productive no matter where their work takes them while increasing participation and decreasing travel cost.
Key Benefits:
Azure Media Services provides live streaming capabilities
Users can watch the live streaming event on variety of platforms and devices
Auto failover, quality of service monitoring is achieved with Azure Media Service

4. Solution architecture
Business user
Enterprise leadership use this solution for live streaming events via Azure.
Solution goal
Enable employees to access information, confer with colleagues and stay productive no matter where their work takes them. Increase attendance and participation while eliminating the cost of travel.
Solution components
This Solution is based on Azure Media Services featuring: accelerated distribution of live video and audio streams; supported adaptive multi-bitrate streaming formats; no required special considerations enabling clients to use existing enterprise infrastructure and scaling to hundreds of thousands of viewers.

5. Reference Architecture
Preview Monitoring
Program
Azure Live Encoder
3rd Party On-Premises Live Encoder
Streaming Endpoint
Azure CDN
Cloud DRM License/Key Delivery Serve
Azure Media Player in Mobile App
Live Source
Multi-Protocol Dynamic Packaging/ Multi-DRM
Azure Blob Storage
Channel
Token
License / Key
Devices

6. Reference architecture
Live Encoder
Outputs the live source for ingest into the cloud as RTMP, MPEG Transport Stream or fragmented mp4 formats
Blog Storage
Stores large amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data, that can be accessed from anywhere In the world via HTTP or HTTPS
Media services
Provides the ability to ingest, encode, preview, store and deliver live streaming content
Azure streaming endpoint
Represents a streaming service that can deliver content directly to a client player application or to a content delivery network (CDN) for further distribution
Content delivery network
Provides secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach and a rich feature set
Azure Media Player
Uses industry standards such as HTML5 to provide an enriched adaptive streaming experience. Regardless of playback technology used, developers have a unified JavaScript interface to access APIs
Preview Monitoring
Provides the ability to preview and validate a live stream before further processing and delivery
Multi-DRM Content Protection
Delivers content securely using multi-DRM or AES clear key encryption

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