Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX 1.5 Professional

• ~£3K, free trial version available (30 days)
• Multi-way, multi-user video, audio and data streaming
• .flv; uses Sorenson codecs
• Windows or RedHat version (Solaris mentioned though)
• Handles up to 10 Megabits per second of peak bandwidth or 2,500 simultaneous connections

About to be replaced by Flash Media Server 2

• Beta trial available
• No Linux version yet, but planned
• Supports Flash 8 (cool stuff like video hotspots, encryption)
• New codec (On2 VP6) – big leap in quality (comparison)
• Origin and Edge server support (load balancing etc.)
• Can be integrated with Remoting, application framework (server-side conversion?)