Lots of discussion this weekend on the costs associated with the bandwidth required with some uses of the Flash Communication Server.
Unfortunately, broad conclusions are being drawn on Bandwidth requirements based on very specific scenarios (i.e. streaming video 24 hours a day).
You can read the press release here.
We have released a new tutorial showing how to use the Google Web Services from Flash using Flash Remoting.
You can view the tutorial here.
We have released a new version of the Pet Market Application, brining it up to version 1.2. This version includes numerous optimizations and improvements (many recommended by the community).
You can read about the new version here, and find out tons of information in the Blue Print Application Center.
Both of the pages above have links to the live working version.
Here is the link to the application test that I am running today:
Thanks to everyone who helped with the test. We ended up with a max of 44 users. I apologize to everyone who could not join. The Flash Com server i was serving from has a 2 mb / s limit, and we ran into that. We will be doing some more tests in the future, with a higher bandwidth limit on the server.
Branden hall has made a post from SIGGRAPH 2002 in San Antonio, Texas. Branden and Sam Wan are doing a presentation involving Flash and the Flash Communication Server.
You can read the post here.
I am starting to see a lot of questions about the Flash Communication Server, so I thought I would post some good resources for getting your questions answered:
If you know of any other community forums for the Flash Communication Server, post them in the comments.
I am going to be testing a simple Flash Communication Server app on Wednesday (July 24) at 1pm est, and need some (a lot) of people to join to see how it handles the bandwidth. The app basically allows me to broadcast to everyone who is connected.
First test has been done. You can read some info about it here.
In the meantime, I have put up a large version of my Flash Communication Server app. You can check it out here.