ShareStream is a secure, feature-rich digital media asset-management platform that delivers media through streaming, downloads and podcasts (the system is actually integrated with iTunes in an authenticated environment) and has the capability of housing and managing digital content at an institution-wide level. ShareStream.s plaform functions as a centralized content repository for multimedia assets that serves content in a federated manner to a multitude of online learning environments across many universities. ShareStream's rich media management and delivery solution was developed in collaboration with Georgetown University at their Sun Center for Scholarly Information. The platform is able to automate the process of encoding content, provide automated lecture capture with slide synchronization, provide an authoring tool that allows instructional designers to construct rich media web pages comprised of text, streamed media, podcasts, and images; catalogue and archive media with the appropriate metadata, organize media into folders for courses, secure and control access to content, and audit user and content access. ShareStream is integrated with universities. data services and is interoperable with other internal systems, such as LMSs (ShareStream embeds its application within Blackboard, Sakai, and eCollege), library catalogues, and university web pages. The platform also has many security/rights management features for media, including user-credential verification technology that performs authentication, authorization, and course-enrollment checking, access control lists that manage user privileges and roles, and location/IP address-restricted and time duration-restricted access to content. ShareStream.s technology is also streaming-server and media-player agnostic, so the platform works with whichever player and format make the most sense for your institution. ShareStream launched at Georgetown University in January of .06 and is currently being used to manage, secure, and deliver media for over 220 courses, servicing over 220,000 on-demand requests for content last year. ShareStream also provides an e-commerce application that allows its clients to monetize their content and intellectual property using ShareStream's platform for distance learning and continuing education.