Adobe® Flash® Media Server offers a combination of streaming media and social interactivity for building rich media applications. Flash Media Server offers instant start, live video streams, and variable streaming rates based on the user's bandwidth.

There are three editions of Flash Media Server:

Flash Media Interactive Server 

The full-featured edition of the server.

Flash Media Development Server 

A development version of Flash Media Interactive Server. Supports all the same features but limits the number of connections.

Flash Media Streaming Server 

Supports the live and vod streaming services only. This server edition does not support server-side scripting or stream recording.