- illustrated audio
- A stream that combines audio with synchronized images to make up an online slide show that runs at low bandwidths.
- intranet
- A TCP/IP network that can be connected to the Internet but is usually protected by a firewall or other device.
- local area network (LAN)
- A group of computers and other devices dispersed over a relatively limited area and connected by a communications link that enables any device to interact with any other on the network.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- A Windows-based Web browser manufactured by Microsoft Corporation.
- MMS Protocol
- A protocol used to reference and stream .asf files from a NetShow server. For example: mms://server_name/file_name.asf
- MSBD Protocol
- A protocol used to reference the Real-Time Encoder, which is the source of a stream. It is also used when streaming from the Channel service to a content-storage server. For example: msbd://server_name
- multicast
- The sending of a stream across the network from a source to all clients that want to receive it. Multicast contrasts with unicast, in which a stream is sent to each client requesting it, and broadcast, in which a stream is sent to all clients on the network. Multicasting economizes bandwidth by not sending multiple streams of the same data and by not sending it to clients who haven't requested to receive it.
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