Video-streaming nowadays become more and more popular both for businesses and end-customers. However, we haven't yet seen any truly highly-available and flexible solution for the media content providers on the market, which would be able to comply and support all media streaming patterns we have sorted out (see http://www.media-cloud.com/patterns ).
We also see that even such giant of social networking as Facebook experiences problems with video-streaming, supposedly because of overloading of computational and throughput media server capacities.
As a rule, 100 simultaneous subscribers is a hard limit for a regular media streaming server. Everything which is over this limit requires sophisticated tuning and set-up of a clustering infrastructure, which is quite expensive and requires certain expertise. There is however a vast amount of various businesses and organizations having an occasional need to broadcast some event live only once a year, but expecting over 100.000 subscribers.
We want to give the world a truly reliable and flexible way of media content publishing. We let our customers focus on the development of the business idea of their media service, not taking care of bandwidth capacity and performance issues. Media Cloud will take care about that.