Connectivity
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Connectivity encompasses the speed, number, diversity and reliability of inter-connections between the location of a server and other Internet Service Providers.
Maintaining webcast quality requires quality connectivity.
The server where you host your files should have interconnectivity agreements with as many Internet gateways as possible.
It is preferable to use dedicated connections for hosting streaming media servers. This is also ideal when sending a live stream from an encoder to a streaming media server.