The technology is ideal for high speed backbone and high speed residential networks. The product broadcasts multimedia lists asynchronously to recipients who signal availability states. Current bitstreaming techniques of video transfer relates to the transfer of one file. The streaming part of the receiver handshakes with the stream manager on the broadcast side and while receiving the packets or file-ettes, buffers them for play as if they were coming off a disk. The drawback is that the file being streamed has one existence and the work is done by the streaming server to achieve packetizations and sustained transport.
Jitter occurs when congestion prevents the bit-streaming from coming through adequately.
Since the video object are larger segments than the streaming segments, load balancing can be achieved because a RealButton player can receive clips from more than one web server without getting out of sequence.