Live Streaming & File Recording Calculator

Streaming Rate
Step 1. What is your bit rate?	Select Option 28 Kbps 50 Kbps 100 Kbps 200 Kbps 250 Kbps 300 Kbps 500 Kbps 700 Kbps 1.0 Mbps 1.5 Mbps 2 Mbps 3 Mbps 4 Mbps 6 Mbps 8 Mbps 10 Mbps
Step 2. Adjust the rate if desired.	Kbps
Streaming Bandwidth
How many viewers will you have?
What is average duration of viewing?	minutes
Total Viewing minutes:	minutes
Total Bandwidth Required:	KB
	MB (1024 KB)
	GB (1024 MB)
File Recording
How long will you record?	Hours Minutes Seconds
Approx. Disk Space Needed is:	KB
	MB (1024 KB)
	GB (1024 MB)
Reference

VBrick Video Type	Audio/Video Rate Range
VBrick WM Appliance	28.8 Kbps to 4 Mbps
VBrick MPEG-4 Appliance	20 Kbps to 2 Mbps
VBrick MPEG-2 Appliance	1.8 Mbps to 10 Mbps not for Internet streaming

For multicast, the streaming bandwidth is always equal to the streaming rate Internet Streaming Bandwidth is only used when there is one or more viewers.  If using a reflector (e.g. PowerStream) no bandwidth is used when if there are no viewers even though you may be sending a stream to hosted reflector server.