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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

HIVE STREAMING FOR SKYPE MEETING BROADCAST

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CONTENTS

About Hive Streaming ........................................................................................................................... 4

High Level Features ................................................................................................................................. 4

How HIVE Streaming works ................................................................................................................. 5

The HIVE Mind ...................................................................................................................................... 5

HIVE Deployment Overview ............................................................................................................. 6

The HIVE Client ..................................................................................................................................... 8

HIVE Client Operating Model ...................................................................................................... 8

A Polite Guest .................................................................................................................................... 9

The HIVE Helper Services Overview .............................................................................................. 9

HIVE Security ............................................................................................................................................. 9

HIVE Networking ..................................................................................................................................... 9

HIVE Network Protocols .................................................................................................................... 9

Topology Awareness – Keeping Traffic Local .......................................................................... 10

Additional Information ........................................................................................................................ 11

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HIVE STREAMING

SDN SOLUTION FOR SKYPE MEETING

BROADCAST

Hive Streaming is a peer-based Software Defined Networking (SDN) Video

Distribution solution designed to deliver high quality video to your employees

through the Skype Meeting Broadcast application without stressing your Enterprise

network.

HIVE in the Skype Meeting Broadcast video eco system

When using Skype Meeting Broadcast without HIVE, each viewer will access the

stream directly from the Skype Meeting Broadcast Video Source. With many viewers

and higher bitrates this will overload a typical Enterprise network. This problem can

be solved by placing caching and/or multicast servers in strategic locations of the

network. However, these types of solutions are very costly to setup and maintain.

HIVE offers another approach where each viewer becomes a mini cache server - the

viewer’s computers form a peer-based software CDN (This is also referred to as SDN

[Software Defined Networking]). HIVE utilizes existing idle infrastructure, creating a

highly efficient distribution solution. HIVE's patented distribution algorithm enables

Ingest Skype Meeting

Broadcast Video

Source

Hive SDN Skype Meeting

Broadcast Video

Player

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our customers to remove up to 99% of the video traffic, making traditional hardware

based solutions obsolete.

HIVE enabled devices sharing single video streams

ABOUT HIVE STREAMING • Lowers load on server and networks by up to 99% (typical reduction for live

96-98% and VoD 75-98%) 


• Enables all viewers to consume high quality streams, regardless of weak

network links and
remote offices 


• Scales to hundreds of thousands of viewers 


• Utilizes existing idle infrastructure (viewer's computers and network resources)

• Preintegrated with Skype Meeting Broadcast

• Simple to setup and operate 


HIGH LEVEL FEATURES • Handles both Live (Skype Meeting Broadcast) and Video on Demand (VOD)

(Office Video- if applicable) streams 


• Supports adaptive multi bitrate HTTP streaming formats (DASH, Smooth

Streaming, HDS and HLS) 


• Runs on Windows, MacOS, Linux , iOS, Android and Windows Phone 


Skype Meeting Broadcast

Video Source

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• Little or no configuration required – proxies, firewalls and NATs are

automatically detected and handled 


• Network Friendly Congestion Control – only idle network resources are used 


• Advanced reporting and statistics, including detailed real-time event stats and

aggregated reports

HOW HIVE STREAMING WORKS

The HIVE Mind

A HIVE network is a distributed group of computers that help each other distribute

high quality video. Each client in the network talks to other clients to determine the

optimal routes, who is best suited to fetch the stream from the server, and which

clients should share data with who. These determinations are dynamic, meaning that

they change during the course of the stream (dependent on network changes and

viewer habits) and are based off of HIVE's patented algorithms.

The result is a very efficient, robust and adaptive system that removes almost all

network load whilst maintaining very high levels of reliability. Even when key clients in

the network suddenly disappear, other clients will seamlessly take over their

responsibility without any disturbance to the viewers.

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HIVE Clients in four Swedish cities sharing a live video stream.

Individual hexagons represent subnets within sites.

HIVE Deployment Overview

A HIVE deployment for Skype Meeting Broadcast is intended to be as frictionless as

possible for the Customer (refer to“Deploying HIVE for Skype Meeting Broadcast”

document for more information). It requires two things:

1. An Active Skype Meeting Broadcast Account

2. The HIVE Clients

The HIVE client is deployed on each viewer's computer and handles communication

within the HIVE network. The HIVE client is already tested and integrated with Skype

Meeting Broadcast but is a separate installation.

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HIVE Network Components

Signal traffic

ENTERPRISE NETWORK

P2P Encrypted UDP

Skype Meeting Broadcast

Video Source

Hive Clients Video

HTTP(S)

INTERNET

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The HIVE Client

At the core of the HIVE network is the HIVE Client. The client runs on each viewer's

computer and is responsible for fetching video streams from the best source. The

client always tries to get the video from other clients, but if no other nearby client has

the video, the requesting client will fetch it from the video source.

HIVE Client Operating Model

The HIVE client acts a transparent HTTP proxy between the Skype Meeting Broadcast

Video Stream and the Skype Video Player. Technically, this is achieved by pointing the

video player to the localhost address and supplying the manifest URL as a parameter.

First tries to get

from HIVE

If not available, it will get from Skype

Meeting Broadcast Video Source

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A Polite Guest

The client is designed to only use limited local resources - in terms of CPU, memory,

disk and network. The client constantly monitors its usage of local resource and

adopts its behavior to ensure the end user never notices the HIVE client.

Typical resource usage is 1-3% of CPU while watching and 45 MB (idle) and 128 MB

(viewing) of RAM. Disk usage is configurable by administrators.

The HIVE Helper Services Overview

The HIVE Helper Services reside in the Microsoft Azure Cloud and, while instrumental

in making HIVE work, do not require any active engagement from the Customer. The

Helper Services help the HIVE clients find each other, establish network connections

and gather statistics. The HIVE clients use HTTPS to communicate with the Helper

Services.

HIVE SECURITY HIVE has been built with security in mind from the start and works with Skype

Meeting Broadcast to keep your content secure.

All client-to-client traffic is encrypted with SSL and clients authenticate each other

before any communication starts. In addition, all traffic to the Helper Services is

anonymous and no sensitive customer data is transferred or stored.

HIVE NETWORKING HIVE utilizes a number of advanced networking technologies to ensure high video

quality paired with network friendly traffic patterns.

HIVE Network Protocols

The HIVE Clients use HTTP and