Patent ID: 8060599
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, into a capacity planning system, workload information representing an expected workload of client accesses of streaming media files from a site; receiving, into said capacity planning system, at least one service parameter that defines a desired service characteristic to be provided by a media server configuration under the expected workload and defines a desired service characteristic to be provided by a media server configuration during periods of degraded service under the expected workload; and determining, by said capacity planning system, for at least one server configuration, how many servers of said at least one server configuration to be included at said site for supporting the expected workload in compliance with said at least one service parameter, wherein said at least one service parameter specifies a limit on the amount of degradation of service encountered during said periods of degraded service.