Live Streaming with Your ILC

We are living in a locked-down world where many activities that once needed personal interaction, from schooling to corporate board meetings, are being replaced by their equivalent virtual counterparts. The enabler for all this is streaming. Let us start by understating what streaming means in this context.

- Ashok Kandimalla

Streaming refers to the continuous run or flow of a current in a specified direction. We usually associate it with water. In the age of the Internet, the word streaming has taken a much wider scope. Wikipedia defines streaming of information as, “Multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb ‘streaming’ refers to the process of delivering or obtaining media in this manner”. It is important to note the difference between this and the simple downloading of a file. All streamed data is consumed in real-time as the data is being transmitted. This is unlike a file download where you have to wait for the file to be completely received before you can do anything with it. The latter can never be used to show a live event, a cricket match for example.