Delivery Procedure A Burst-Enabled Player sends a new multimedia request to the Conductor. Conductor continuously monitors and tracks available bandwidth, the number of connected servers, the number of clients being served, and the status of all requests over multiple servers to provide centralized management capabilities. Conductor intelligently connects Player to an appropriate server based on network conditions at the time of request. Server delivers data in Faster-Than-Real-Time™ bursts, ensuring uninterrupted, jitter free video and audio. Burst-Enabled Players' VCR-like functionality allows full control over media playback. Delivery Guarantee Burstware provides fail-over protection by automatically switching demand for a Conductor and/or Server to machines that are available and running. Fail-over is "invisible" to Burst-Enabled Players. Because new servers top off client buffers in Faster-Than-Real-Time, there is no interruption in service or change in the viewing experience even if a failure occurs mid-stream. More information on Faster-Than-Real-Time All contents ©2000 burst.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Legal Information