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Windows Media Services 2008 is an industrial-strength platform for streaming live or on-demand audio and video content to clients over the Internet or an intranet. Use Windows Media Services 2008 to configure and manage one or more Windows Media servers running on the Windows Server 2008 operating system.

Your clients can be:

Computers or devices that play the content using a player, such as Windows Media Player or Silverlight.
Computers running Windows Media Services that are proxying, caching, or redistributing your content.
Custom applications that have been developed using the Windows Media Software Development Kit (SDK).

Windows Media Services 2008 contains a new, built-in cache/proxy plug-in that you can use to configure your Windows Media server either as a cache/proxy server or a reverse-proxy server. Also, Windows Media Services is a supported installation option for Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008.

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