QuickTime Streaming Server 4.1 to debut soon?

[simX]

Take a look at one of Apple's press releases about the amount of people who viewed the MPEG4 stream of the MWNY keynote:

CUPERTINO, California—July 22, 2002—Approximately 50,000 people used QuickTime® to watch Apple’s July 17 live webcast of Steve Jobs’ Macworld New York 2002 keynote, which was simulcast in both QuickTime 5 and QuickTime 6. The QuickTime 6 stream was the first ever large-scale web event in the new MPEG-4 open standard and was delivered using a complete end-to-end Apple solution. Four new Apple Xserve™ servers using the new QuickTime Streaming Server 4.1, QuickTime Broadcaster® and QuickTime 6 player software delivered MPEG-4 formatted content to 25,000 of the total viewers.

Versiontracker.com lists QuickTime Streaming Server at version 4.0. What gives?

[Captain Code]

They probably used an alpha version just so they could stream in MPEG 4.

[Snowball]

think about it, only 4 computers (even if they were top of the line Xserves) serving 25,000 viewers simultaneously? That must have been a SERIOUSLY fast net connection for each server - 6,125 viewers a piece? Wow! Xserves are really awesome if that is true (sounds almost too good too be true)! Although I guess technically speaking that fact could just as well have been done on other kinds of servers as well...still, that's a whole lot of bandwidth!