Originally Posted by VGeorgie

Your basic options for Flash servers are:

Adobe Flash Media Server - $4,500
Wowza (perpetual license) - $1,000
Red5 - Free

(There are others like Helix, and one written in haXe, but the above are the main ones.)

FMS is easier to set up and Adobe gives good support, but at close to five grand that's a lot of dough. The others have varying support, and they all have bandwidth detection of one kind or another.