Wearing my R2 hat.... R2 has recently installed a streaming media server at the Palmerston North (PNIX) internet exchange in addition to servers already at WIX and APE. We also have a server located in California, USA to serve content to New Zealanders overseas. These have been tested during the current Lions Rugby tour and are now fully operational. They will shortly be carrying the previously announced RNZ service. This announcement is to advise that all the streams carried by R2 on behalf of Rhema Broadcasting Group (RBG) are now available on all servers. These streams are Radio Rhema www.rhema.co.nz Southern Star www.sstar.co.nz LifeFM www.lifefm.co.nz ShineTV www.shinetv.co.nz The audio streams are available in bit rates up to 64kbps and TV up to 384kbps. We expect to make a 2Mbps TV stream available by the end of the month. Details of the streams is available via the station websites listed above. RBG content is both live streams and on-demand content. We have chosen to deploy a multi-homed architecture for the following reasons: 1. Greater diversity and redundancy than a single site/provider architecture. 2. Reduced network latency for improved streaming performance. 3. Shortest path for broadband consumers (reducing network congestion for Operators). 4. Scalability, allowing us to add servers at new exchanges in the future. 5. To minimise national transit costs for the ISP's of customers using the content. 6. Lowest cost to serve content. 7. Ability to better serve international viewers and listeners of NZ stations. The servers have a globally consistent anycast IP address which is advertised at each exchange to ensure that the content is delivered from the nearest server to the consumer. In order to get the best performance we recommend that you peer directly with the anycast routers at all the exchanges where you have connectivity. Any peering questions should be directed to me at richard.naylor(a)r2.co.nz Thanks Richard