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Level3 Media Portal Overview

Category: CDN, Miscellaneous

The Level 3 CDN Media Portal is the access point for managing the caching, streaming and storage tools for your content. Through this portal, you can view reports about your data and check how your content is played, among many other things. Getting Started: Log in to the Media Portal – the security method uses …

Caching Service Description

Category: Caching

The Level 3 Content Delivery Network is built on one of the world’s largest, most advanced networks to meet the world’s rapidly growing demands.  Whether video, software downloads, music, live events or online games, digital media is delivered to customers quickly, reliably and cost-effectively. Edge server sites around the world are proactively configured to meet …

Creating On Demand Stream Links

Creating Links in Reverse Proxy Mode When using Reverse Proxy mode, the customer has a choice in how they create their On Demand stream links. Customers can elect to directly embed the Level 3 provided hostname or they can use their own hostname. Static portion of the RTMP/MMS link/[DirectoryPath(s)]/file name Protocol://[Level_3_provided_hostname]/[Level_3_SubscriberID]/[file_name] e.g. mms://level3mediawm.fplive.net/level3media/directory1/sampleFile.wmv     mms://video.foo.com/level3media/directoy1/sampleFile.wmv …

How Live Streaming works

Category: Live Streaming

Level 3’s Live Streaming platform provides support only for Adobe Flash format.  Although Level 3 can provide signal acquisition and encoding services as part of a larger holistic solution, the scope of this document strictly deals with the CDN streaming services capability. Flash Media Services The Level 3 streaming platform uses the Flash Media Server …

On Demand streaming – How does it work

Level 3’s On Demand Streaming platform is unique in the CDN streaming industry in that it supports both forward and reverse proxy caching technology.  This offers the customer the advantage of selecting a mode of operation that best suits their content needs.  Customers must elect which form of proxy caching they will be using, albeit …