Smooth streaming for live events and on-demand media

Movies, video, music, breaking news — your audiences can’t get enough and they can’t get it fast enough. Enter LimelightSTREAM. Take advantage of our robust network and comprehensive streaming service to deliver rich media in the way that fits your unique business.

Whether your audiences are watching a feature film, tuning into a webcast, or listening to a live concert on the other side of the world, our robust CDN streams your content to them at the speed of light. The result? Immediate starts and smooth continuous play - even during intense traffic spikes, for the most enjoyable viewing and listening experience available online. And with LimelightSTREAM and its capacity of 3 terabits per second (and growing), you can support audiences of any size, anywhere in the world.

Streaming is the best method for broadcasting live events, enabling global audiences to watch or listen in real time. It's also great for delivering on-demand media, especially long-form content, because it starts playing within seconds and allows users to jump to any future point in the video or audio. And unlike other content delivery methods, streaming players don’t leave behind a file. Once the file is watched, it can’t be shared or replayed offline — crucial for scenarios such as pay-per-view, movie rentals, or distribution of proprietary information. In many cases, you can also reduce costs with streaming, because you only pay to deliver as much or as little as users actually watch.

Support for today’s leading
streaming media platforms

With LimelightSTREAM, you can choose live or on-demand streaming delivery of Microsoft Windows Media, Adobe Flash Video, and MP3 music and audio files, as well as the latest Smooth Streaming from Microsoft. Got Real Networks RealPlayer and Apple QuickTime media? We also support on-demand streaming for these popular formats.

On-demand media: Your place or ours?

With LimelightSTREAM, you can choose to store on-demand content on your own origin servers or on the Limelight Networks storage infrastructure. When you choose Limelight as the origin, you’ll take full advantage of our global high-speed network to ensure that your customers enjoy fast and reliable streaming every time. Media is served, at the speed of light, across our proprietary platform and delivered directly to your users’ access networks. And while you’re leveraging the full power of the Limelight Networks CDN, you’re also avoiding the costs of purchasing, managing, and supporting your own high-performance CDN infrastructure.

Reporting and analytics

You need data to analyze your operations. How many bits were delivered? How much bandwidth did your content consume? How many users did you serve and what files did they play? What is the relative popularity of each title? A flexible customer portal called LimelightCONTROL (formerly known as LimelightEXCHANGE) makes it easy to monitor every aspect of your streaming delivery. You can also request raw logs every 24 hours or live logs every 15 minutes, both delivered in industry-standard format.

LimelightCONTROL X and LimelightCONTROL XD offer enhanced analytical tools through a streamlined user interface. Advanced features include geo-reporting, improved file tracking, hourly end-point performance measurements, and self-ordering.

Command and control

Advanced management tools enable you to control how LimelightSTREAM publishes and presents your content. For example, to maintain content freshness or for managing exceptions, the Purge Utility allows authorized individuals to delete content cached across our CDN. With the Geo Compliance option,* you can ensure that your content is not accessible outside of a defined geographic area, ideal for managing media licenses with geographic restrictions.

In customer-origin configurations, the Headers feature enables you to set business rules for how long your files remain in cache on our CDN, especially useful for highly volatile content. Since the Header settings are on your server, you're always in control.

Protected access to your content

Limelight Networks offers a highly scalable URL authentication option* that protects your content from authorized access. With Media Vault, your website generates a unique time-based URL to your content each time it’s requested by your visitors. Because the URL expires within minutes, your content and your bandwidth are protected from abuse by spiders, bots, and deep linking. Even if another site were to embed the link, it would no longer be functional — preventing others from publishing your content without your permission.

Media Vault allows you to set start and stop dates/times, perfect for time-sensitive content. And since each URL is unique to each user request, it can't be copied and emailed to unauthorized individuals. You can also limit access to a clock of IP addresses. Best of all, Media Vault controls don't result in server latency, thanks to a token-based system that avoids unwanted three-way handshakes, common to other methods of authentication.

User-generated content

Limelight Networks makes it easy to add user-generated content to your sites in your choice of major media formats, including Windows Media, Flash, RealPlayer, QuickTime, and 3GPP. Starting with your source content, simply define your workflow: choose your encoding/transcoding profile, specify one or more target formats, set the bit rate, and specify the destination sites or devices — and your media is transformed and published automatically. As part of the workflow, you can also generate thumbnails, create titles, or add watermarks to your video content. Customize the included workflow templates, or build your own.

* Not applicable for all formats and delivery types. Please contact Limelight Networks for details.

Specifications
Smooth Streaming • On-demand streaming – Limelight Networks origin – Customer origin, requires Internet Information Server (IIS) 7 • Support for Silverlight only (free sample code included) • Encoder: Full version of Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Windows Media • On-demand streaming: – Origin: Limelight Networks or customer – Support for CNAMEs, variable bit rates (VBRs) and multiple bit rates (MBRs) – Support for URL authentication and IP address verification • Live streaming: – Support for push or pull delivery – Seed streams to multiple servers (pull only) – Windows Media Counter (additional report) – Windows Media Live self-provisioning tool (pull only) • Encoders supported: Microsoft Encoder, Microsoft Windows Media Server, and Digital Rapids • File types supported: wmv and wma • Protocols supported: HTTP, RTSP, and MMS • Full Silverlight support	Flash Video • On-demand streaming: – Storage location: Limelight Networks or customer – Support for bandwidth detection • Live streaming: Support for push delivery only (VP6, Spark, and H.264) • Dynamic Streaming for both live and on-demand streams • Encoders supported: On2 Flix, Sorenson, Adobe, and Digital Rapids • File types supported: FLV, H.264 (F4V, MP4, 3GPP, MPEG-4), MP3, and AAC(+) • Mobile: Streaming delivery to Adobe Flash Lite 3 • Protocols supported: RTMP, RTMPT (HTTP tunnel), RTMPE, (secure streaming), and RTMPTE RealPlayer • Support for on-demand streaming (Limelight Networks origin only) • Protocol supported: RTSP QuickTime • Support for on-demand streaming (Limelight Networks origin only) • Protocol supported: RTSP (files need to be hinted) MP3 • Support for both on-demand and live streaming (on-demand delivery via Flash service) • Support for push delivery only • Protocols supported: MP3, ACC, AAC+, and Ogg Vorbis