SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ENHANCED ENTERPRISE STREAMING MEDIA SERVER CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE

Streaming media servers are used to provide data streams of streaming media data to network devices across a communications network. In order to allow the servers to scale its processing as the number of data streams increases, these servers use a delay timer determination module for determining when a given CPU is to transfer its streaming media data corresponding to its group of data streams, a CPU wake up module for initiating an acceleration process for each CPU upon receipt of a signal from the delay timer determination module, and a plurality of CPU processing modules for transferring streaming media data corresponding to its group of data streams. The delay timer determination module uses a stagger and interval parameter where these parameters are calculated from a set of system parameters, including a number of processors available to support data streams, CPUnum, a size for the smallest data buffer within all of the network devices, MemReceiverMin, and the maximum bit data transfer rate, BRmax, supported.