Document Outline

• Preface
  • Who should read this manual
  • Conventions used in this manual
• 1 About Streaming Media
  • Using this manual
  • About streaming media
    • What does streaming media mean for Media-IXT?
    • Media streaming servers and players
    • Media streaming formats and protocols
    • Streaming over HTTP
    • SMIL files
  • Deployment scenarios
• 2 Media-IXT Deployment Scenarios
  • Understanding forward proxy, reverse proxy, and transparency
    • Forward, explicit proxy caching
    • Forward, transparent proxy caching
    • Reverse proxy caching
    • Beyond simple forward proxy, reverse proxy, and transparency
  • Understanding hierarchy
  • Understanding live passthrough, live splitting, and hierarchical live splitting
  • Understanding clustering
  • Understanding VIP failover
  • Understanding selective caching
    • Selective caching and reverse proxy for multiple origin servers
  • Understanding CDS preload
  • Understanding authentication
    • Understanding proxy authentication through to origin server
    • Understanding LDAP authentication
  • Understanding firewalls
    • Application-level firewalls (proxy firewalls)
    • Network-level firewalls (packet-filtering firewalls)
    • SOCKS and Media-IXT
    • Overview of firewalls and Media-IXT
• 3 Understanding Media-IXT and RealNetworks
  • Understanding forward proxy, reverse proxy, and transparency for RealNetworks
    • Understanding forward, explicit proxy caching for RealNetworks
    • Understanding forward, transparent proxy caching for RealNetworks
    • Understanding reverse proxy caching for RealNetworks
    • Beyond simple forward proxy, reverse proxy, and transparency for RealNetworks
  • Understanding multi-bitrate clips and RealNetworks
  • Understanding hierarchy and RealNetworks
    • About RealProxy and hierarchy
  • Understanding live passthrough, live splitting, and hierarchical live splitting for RealNetworks
    • Understanding live splitting and RealNetworks
    • Understanding hierarchical live splitting and RealNetworks
  • Understanding clustering and RealNetworks
  • Understanding VIP failover and RealNetworks
  • Understanding selective caching and RealNetworks
  • Understanding CDS preload and RealNetworks
  • Understanding authentication and RealNetworks
  • Understanding firewalls and RealNetworks
    • RealNetworks options for server-player connections
    • Application-level firewalls (proxy firewalls) and RealNetworks
    • Network-level firewalls and RealNetworks
  • Understanding the limitations of RealProxy and of the PNA protocol
• 4 Understanding Media-IXT and WMT
  • Understanding forward proxy, reverse proxy, and transparency for WMT
    • WMT streaming essentials
    • WMT streaming with no proxy cache present
    • WMT streaming with Media-IXT performing proxy caching
    • Understanding forward, transparent proxy caching for WMT
    • Understanding reverse proxy caching for WMT
    • WMT streaming deployments based on MMS transparency
    • Beyond simple forward proxy, reverse proxy, and transparency for WMT
  • Understanding multi-bitrate clips and WMT
  • Understanding hierarchy and WMT
  • Understanding live passthrough, live splitting, and hierarchical live splitting for WMT
    • Understanding live splitting and WMT
    • Understanding hierarchical live splitting and WMT
  • Understanding clustering and WMT
  • Understanding VIP failover and WMT
  • Understanding CDS preload and WMT
  • Understanding selective caching and WMT
  • Understanding authentication and WMT
  • Understanding firewalls and WMT
• 5 Understanding Media-IXT and QuickTime
  • Understanding forward proxy, reverse proxy, and transparency for QuickTime
    • Use of RTSP by both QuickTime and RealNetworks
    • Understanding forward, explicit proxy caching for QuickTime
    • Understanding forward, transparent proxy caching for QuickTime
    • Understanding reverse proxy caching for QuickTime
    • Beyond simple forward proxy, reverse proxy, and transparency for QuickTime
  • Understanding multi-bitrate clips and QuickTime
  • Understanding hierarchy and QuickTime
  • Understanding live passthrough, live splitting, and hierarchical live splitting for QuickTime
  • Understanding clustering and QuickTime
  • Understanding VIP failover and QuickTime
  • Understanding selective caching and QuickTime
  • Understanding CDS preload and QuickTime
  • Understanding authentication and QuickTime
• 6 Configuring Media-IXT: an Overview
  • Media-IXT configuration
    • After you make configuration changes
    • Features and configuration files
    • Tags and rules
    • Reverse proxy caching and remap.config
    • Hierarchical caching and parent.config
    • Selective caching and the cache.config and filter.config files
  • Configuration file summary tables
  • Media-IXT port usage
• 7 Configuring Media-IXT for RealNetworks
  • Configuring RealPlayer to use a proxy
  • Configuration variables
    • Media-IXT configuration variables
  • Configuring Media-IXT for streaming over HTTP
  • Configuring RealProxy
    • Configuring RealProxy for reverse proxy using Virtual IP addresses
  • Configuring transparent proxy caching for RealNetworks
    • Configuring a layer 4 switch for transparency
    • Configuring a WCCP2-compatible router for transparency
  • Configuring reverse proxy caching for RealNetworks
    • Configuring reverse proxy for a RealNetworks server farm with a layer 4 switch
    • Configuring reverse proxy for QuickTime and RealNetworks simultaneously
  • Configuring hierarchical proxy caching for RealNetworks
    • A hierarchical proxying workaround for PNA and firewalls
  • Configuring live passthrough in a reverse proxy deployment
  • Configuring hierarchical live splitting for RealNetworks
  • Configuring selective caching for RealNetworks
    • Modifying the filter.config file to determine proxyability
    • Modifying the cache.config file to determine cacheability
    • Differences between forward and reverse proxy selective caching
  • Configuring CDS preload for RealNetworks
  • Configuring LDAP authentication for RealNetworks
  • Configuring firewalls for RealNetworks
    • Configuring application-level firewalls (proxy firewalls) for RealNetworks
    • Configuring network-level firewalls for RealNetworks
• 8 Configuring Media-IXT for WMT
  • Configuring Windows Media Player to use a proxy
  • Configuration variables
    • Media-IXT configuration variables
    • Configuring a non-default WMT port in a forward proxy deployment
  • Configuring Media-IXT for streaming over HTTP
  • Configuring transparent proxy caching for WMT
    • Windows Media Player retransmission requests and transparency
    • Configuring a layer 4 switch for transparency
    • Configuring a WCCP2-compatible router for transparency
  • Configuring reverse proxy caching for WMT
  • Configuring hierarchical proxy caching for WMT
  • Configuring hierarchical live splitting for WMT
  • Configuring selective caching for WMT
    • Modifying the filter.config file to determine proxyability
    • Modifying the cache.config file to determine cacheability
    • Differences between forward and reverse proxy selective caching
• 9 Configuring Media-IXT for QuickTime
  • Configuring the QuickTime player to use a proxy
  • Configuration variables
    • Media-IXT configuration variables
  • Configuring an origin QuickTime server for use with Media-IXT
  • Configuring Media-IXT for streaming over HTTP
  • Configuring transparent proxy caching for QuickTime
    • Configuring a layer 4 switch for transparency
    • Configuring a WCCP2-compatible router for transparency
  • Configuring reverse proxy caching for QuickTime
    • Configuring reverse proxy for QuickTime and RealNetworks simultaneously
  • Configuring selective caching for QuickTime
    • Modifying the filter.config file to determine proxyability
    • The primary specifier
    • Secondary specifiers
    • The allow and deny actions
    • Modifying the cache.config file to determine cacheability
    • Differences between forward and reverse proxy selective caching
• 10 Logging and Monitoring
  • Logging Media-IXT traffic
    • Distinguishing RealNetworks from QuickTime in log entries
    • Reverse proxy logging
    • Logging and SMIL files
  • Understanding log collation
  • RealNetworks logging
    • RealNetworks logging in hierarchical deployments
    • The client_GUID field in RealProxy and RealServer logs
    • About the cgid and caun fields and RealNetworks
    • About the prcb field and RealNetworks
    • About the prob field and RealNetworks
    • RealNetworks logging caveats
  • WMT logging
    • Different ways for an origin WMT server to log client requests
    • About the prob field and WMT
  • QuickTime Logging
    • The band field and Quick Time
    • On cache hits, prob is always non-zero for QuickTime.
  • Transaction logging fields
    • About the prcb and prob fields and clustering
    • About the styp field
  • Transaction logging fields: table and illustrated examples
  • Monitoring Media-IXT traffic
    • About MRTG and Media-IXT
    • About live streams and Traffic Manager
    • About Cache Transfers in Progress
    • Statistics for monitoring through Traffic Manager
  • Summary of statistics
• Glossary
• Index

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