The present invention relates to a streaming media flow rate balancing method and the device, which belong to the communication field. The streaming media flow rate balancing device is arranged on the rendezvous point that the streaming media demands a
user group on a
campus network, the program content of the streaming media demanded by the
user group is analyzed, to judge the popular extent of the different programs, and to cache the popular program content, and when the users send out the same program request, the work of a real-time replace centre streaming
media server is to provide services for users, to reduce the I / 0 pressure of a
backbone network of the streaming
media server, and to avoid the
network congestion when applying the streaming media technology. The streaming media flow rate balancing device comprises a
network interface module, a streaming media data packet analyzing module, a streaming media
data center balancing module, and a streaming media data self-adapting
storage management module. The present invention adopts an embedded structure, and has the advantages of low
power consumption, small size, light weight, portable performance, and convenient distribution, and the present invention can better solve the problem of
network congestion of the
campus network, and can be widely applied to the construction and transformation of the
campus network.