When installed with streaming media cache software, RealProxy reduces network traffic by eliminating redundant requests for streaming media. Improving quality of service by distributing streaming media close to the user. Overview of the RealProxy Process Clients request streamed media files via RealProxy. RealServer verifies the file's existence, and that the clients are authorized through IP addresses or authentication. If RealServer denies the request, it does not stream the requested file, and neither does RealProxy.
Clients receive an error message.
If the stream is live, and served from a RealServer that supports splitting, RealProxy replicates the live stream for each client requesting the stream. The origin RealServer sends only a single stream to RealProxy. If the live stream is not available via splitting, RealProxy delivers the data separately for each client. If the stream is on-demand, and RealProxy is set up to use a media cache, it fills the request from the cache. If the stream is on-demand, and a media cache is not available, RealProxy passes a data stream for each client that requested it.