QTSS/Adobe Media Server and Hardware Optimization

HI all,
I am trying to make an informed choice between deploying either QTSS (free and on Mac) or Adobe Media Server (about $20,000 and on Linux). In our application we will have about 700 simultaneous connections to our service. About 400 of these users will be viewing one of four live video feeds (from presenters at an expo). The remaining users will hold one-to one video chats through our site. We have direct fiber bandwidth of 100megs and our video streams are held to 320x240 at 15fps. I have extensive Mac experience and currently use XServe for our other web service. I have three main questions.
1) Does anyone have suggestions/experience on the use of QTSS instead of Adobe Media Server in this size application?
2) If QTSS is used, how many servers and what configurations would you recommend for balancing this size workload?
3) What load balancing hardware would be appropriate for this project if multiple servers are needed?
I really appreciate any help that might be offered. Thanks
X-Serve (Intel 2.66Ghz)   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

The new auth plugin still doesn't work against Wirecast/FM 1.0 agents. The only way I was able to block these agents was through the main.asc file you put in your application. On the function application.onConnect insert this
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