Stratus is a beta hosted rendezvous service that helps establish communication between Flash Player or AIR clients. Once two clients are connected to Stratus, they can send data directly client to client. The APIs in Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 allow for point-to-point communication between a small number of subscribers. Publishers have to send data to all subscribing clients, so the number of subscribers is limited to the available bandwidth on the publisher end.
The Stratus technology page is now live on Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/stratus. Developers can use their Adobe ID to sign up for a unique developer key that is required to connect to the Stratus Service. While it is in beta, the Stratus service is free for developers to use.
To help you get started, we’ve also provided a sample video phone application. The working sample is live on the Adobe Labs site and we’ve provided the source code and a developer center article to help you build your own applications.
For more info about Stratus and answers to Frequently Asked Questions go to: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Stratus:FAQ
whaaaouuu two crazy post on the same day….
Slurp
Sound really cool but what are the main differences between Cocomo en Stratus? They are both client-to-client services but for other purposes?
Greetz
My personal take on it – Cocomo offers all the same functionality as Stratus, plus a bunch of other stuff (data messaging, workflow components, file sharing, etc). Stratus focuses primarily on P2P audio/video. To use Cocomo, you need to use Flex, and for the most part you adopt a higher-level framework to do your coding. This has a ton of advantages (IMHO). On the other hand, Stratus lets you code much “closer to the wire”, which means you have direct access to Netstreams, and work with lower-level APIs. You also must supply your own server for clients to exchange credentials.
Hope that helps clarify,
Nigel