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ZD Labs independently verified the streaming scalability and reliability of Microsoft Windows Media Services, and challenged the digital media industry to follow suit by freely allowing public evaluation of the scalability and reliability of streaming server technology.

The ZD Labs study found that the Windows Media Services feature in the Windows 2000 Advanced Server platform is capable of distributing more than 9,000 concurrent narrowband and more than 2,400 broadband video streams on a single physical server. The report also found that for over 12 days Windows Media Services in Windows 2000 successfully streamed 2,406 100Kbps video streams with a 99.9999999 percent accuracy rate in its delivery of over 26 billion packets of data.

Microsoft commissioned ZD Labs to independently verify the scalability of the Windows Media Services feature of the Windows 2000 server platform using Microsoft's publicly available Windows Media Load Simulator (WMLoad) tool. The study verified Windows Media Services on both narrowband and broadband connections with the following results:

• Narrowband. More than 9,000 concurrent 22 Kbps video streams* were confirmed on a single server running Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
• Broadband. More than 2,400 concurrent 100 Kbps video streams* were confirmed on a single server running Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

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