Application Request Routing Version 2 in action.

As you know, in Application Request Routing Version 2, the focus is around enabling ARR as a cache proxy in CDN/ECN environment.  We had our first beta release in March 09 and the currently available release for supporting this scenario is ARRv2 Beta 2 (Released in July 09 and more info can be found here.)

You can download ARRv2 Beta2 from:

The event is already over, but for those of you who watched REMIX Japan 09 on Live Smooth Streaming, the video "stream" was being proxied through and cached by ARRv2 servers (and I must say that the HD quality was fantastic).  The deployment was done in single tier for this event, although it could be multi-tiered (as documented in this walkthrough).  With additional features that are much more powerful for handling byte-range requests to consolidating live requests, ARRv2 was able to play an important role in broadcasting REMIX Japan 09.

Please check out the new features in ARRV2 Beta 2 here and let us know what you think via this forum.

Lastly, I must thank the team in Japan who made it possible - BIG THANK YOU - and it was nice meeting with you all at TechReady 9.