Video streaming from the 26C3

we came up with that idea when Kai and Hannes went to the Studentennetztreffen 2009 and met the people from FeM e.V. They are the ones who record the streams and do all the video-work like cutting, encoding and so on. We talked a bit and then decided to help by providing another official streaming server.

This project reached its first milestone when we passed the login-credentials over to
Peter Große of FeM.

The projects main goal is to provide more bandwidth for the distribution fo the streams since to our knowledge there was only a signle server from FeM for that purpose. So we decided to use our second gigabit uplink to support them.

Now to the technical stuff:
The streaming software used is Windows Media Services running on a Windows Server 2008\which is able to stream WMV.

In order to provide the students with the connectivity they're used to we chose to use our secondary uplink for the streaming server. That's why Tim and Hannes had to do some minor modification to our routing (using BGP) from and to our uplink-provider BelWü. Our two borderrouters StuWoSt1 and StuWoSt2 announce the networks of Selfnet and WH-Netz, but for our plan we configured StuWoSt2 to announce a special network block, used by our streaming-server with a higher priority so every request for the server is routed via StuWoSt2 and all the requests from and to our students gets routed via StuWoSt1.

Let's hope that Dragons Everywhere will be successful.