Today, we announced IIS Smooth Streaming, a new media extension for IIS 7.0 that enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients via HTTP. Smooth Streaming dynamically detects and seamlessly switches the video quality of a media file being delivered to a Silverlight player, based on current networking and local PC conditions.
As part of the press release, Akamai announced plans to roll out a new service using IIS Smooth Streaming in the first half of 2009, to be called "Akamai AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight." To experience Smooth Streaming on an Akamai proof-of-concept portal, visit www.smoothhd.com.
Check out www.iis.net/media and blogs.iis.net/media to learn more.
-Chris