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Overview of this manual

Welcome to Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX 1.5!

Flash Communication Server is a technology that integrates streaming audio, video, and data into a Macromedia Flash MX application using the Macromedia Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). The ability to integrate communication into your Flash MX application supports the development of a wide variety of multiuser collaboration applications, such as chat, webcasts, whiteboards, and multiuser games. Flash Communication Server also enables scalability, by means of distributing your application's processing among multiple servers, and extensibility, by means of communicating with external sources, such as application servers.

The following sections are all good starting places for learning about Flash Communication Server:

	Getting Started, provides you with the basic information you need to get connected.
	If you'd like to begin reading about key concepts behind the Macromedia Flash Communication Server, go to Flash Communication Server architecture overview.
	The Welcome page in the Flash Communication Server interface provides tutorials and sample applications.
	If you'd like to see the other documentation available with the installed product, see About the Flash Communication Server documentation.