After melting down their server last year during the show, Victoria's Secret's IT Department is determined to make this year's event a technological success. VS plans to deliver streaming video to 3 million viewers over the Internet. IBM is pushing up the bandwidth an undisclosed amount. Victoria's Secret will employ 8 Rad load balancing switches, which will be able to send traffic to two backup sites at Atlanta and San Jose. Short audio segments like songs lend themselves to the first format.
Radio broadcasts lend themselves to the second.
In either case the files are compressed prior to transfer. We will discuss the various compression standards, including RealAudio, WindowsMedia, QuickTime, and MP3. All can be delivered as either entire files or as audio streams. We will briefly touch on various software and hardware MP3 players. Finally, we will address some of the key technical issues.