Risks


One final step in preparing an implementation plan is to identify potential risks associated with the streaming media implementation. Risks are a part of any business decision, and it’s important to be aware of them. The risks you identify at the beginning of the process might be resolved as you progress, or may be replaced with other risks that you discover along the way. It’s important to reassess your installation periodically to ensure that risks have been considered and to develop mitigation plans where necessary.

The Coho Winery identified the following risks associated with their Windows Media 9 Series implementation. The team will revisit these risks in the next chapter as they prepare a mitigation plan for each of them.

Risk

Implication

The server goes down.

The Web server and streaming media server reside on the same computer. If the server goes down, then the entire site is unavailable until the server is back online. Coho Winery does not have a backup server.

Customers have an older Player that is incompatible with the latest streaming technology.

The latest Windows Media encoding technology is supported by Windows Media Player 7.1, XP, and 9 Series. Customers running any other version of the Player will have limited success when attempting to view the winery video content.

Content that resides on theWeb server could potentially be hacked or acquired illegally

By default, content is stored in %systemdrive%\WMPub\WMRoot. When stored in this location, content is safe from unauthorized access. But if content is stored in the WWWroot directory, a user could acquire the content and save it to a computer where it could be propagated or replayed indefinitely.

Requests saturate the allocated bandwidth.

Clients currently receiving a stream encounter buffering delays or jitters in playback because the server is experiencing a higher volume of requests than it is capable of delivering.




Microsoft Windows Media Resource Kit
Microsoft Windows Media Resource Kit (Pro-Resource Kit)
ISBN: 0735618070
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 258

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