Wowza Media Server is a Flash Media Server alternative, Flash streaming server and flash server.



Wowza Media Server Pro
A Fully Interactive Flash Media Server


Wowza Media Server Pro is a high-performance, extensible and a fully interactive Flash media server for live and on-demand streaming, chat, recording and much more. Wowza Pro lets you take Flash streaming to new heights with its full set of features and exclusive capabilities like Wowza's H.264/HE-AAC live streaming with non-Flash RTSP/RTP encoders and optional MPEG-TS encoder support. You get it all at unbeatable prices — up to 75% lower than Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server (FMIS).

Proclaimed 'the smart choice' by our customers and the industry, Wowza Pro makes Flash streaming affordable for organizations of all sizes—from the smallest enterprises to hosting companies and CDNs.

Wowza Pro is available in several editions to meet your business and technical needs. See our Editions and Pricing page for more details on the edition of Wowza Pro that is right for you: Our customers are deploying Wowza Media Server Pro in many creative ways, in a variety of applications. Here is why Wowza Media Server Pro is the smart choice for you too:


   High-performance - highly multi-threaded 64-bit architecture

Wowza Media Server Pro is a highly multi-threaded 64-bit Java server that delivers unprecedented performance for on-demand and live streaming, remote recording and chat. In fact Wowza Pro sets a new benchmark in performance that defines the next-generation of Flash streaming server. The bottom line — you can count on Wowza Media Server Pro to deliver.

   Feature rich - full interactivity, exciting exclusive capabilities

Wowza Pro gives you a complete interactive Flash media streaming feature set. It delivers file streaming in all Flash player-compatible formats, including FLV and H.264 video, MP3 and HE-AAC audio.

For live streaming, Wowza Pro provides exclusive H.264 streaming capability with industry-standard H.264/HE-AAC media encoders such as Apple QuickTime Broadcaster, Vara Software Wirecast, HaiVision, Orban and many others, giving you access to huge Flash audiences while preserving your investment in existing encoders. Additionally, a Wowza Media Server Pro Unlimited with MPEG-TS edition also features support for live H.264 streaming from MPEG-TS encoders common in broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV networks. Of course, Wowza Pro also fully supports traditional live Flash encoders from On2, Digital Rapids, ViewCast, and many others.

In addition, the Wowza Pro extensive set of capabilities goes beyond the conventional with the expanded set of features not available with FMIS/FMSS:
  • Market-leading SecureToken strong anti-ripping protection
  • Exclusive MP3 and HE-AAC SHOUTcast/Icecast re-streaming
  • TiVo-like Fast Forward/Rewind trick play for prerecorded Flash (.flv) files
  • Targeted media stream types-each tuned and optimized to give you the best performance for a specific application (live stream, chat, recording, etc)
  • Wide variety of backend system integration options, including web services, JNI (Java Native Interface), direct Java integration, XML, remote procedure calls and others
  • Centralized configuration management (documentation is available on request)

   Reliable - built from the ground up as an infrastructure-grade server

Your objective is to stream Flash without worries. That is why we built Wowza Media Server Pro from the ground up as an infrastructure-grade server. It is purposely architected and tightly coded to deliver the reliability you need to maintain 24/7 uptimes at high traffic loads.

   Scalable - multi-server scalability is standard functionality, live or on-demand

Wowza Pro's benchmark performance on a single server sets it apart in a category by itself. Beyond that, Wowza Pro makes multi-server scalability easy and cost effective — Wowza Pro Unlimited (as well as our free Wowza Pro10 edition) include Live Stream Repeater functionality as a standard feature so you can infinitely scale up live streaming when and were needed. The Wowza Pro robust demand-based load balancing ensures that streams will be distributed evenly among multiple servers without overwhelming your infrastructure.

   Extensible - comprehensive API's, scripting, programming and integration

A robust set of API's and the power of Java let you extend the Wowza Pro functionality with custom modules to fit perfectly with your applications and environment. Wowza simplifies the tasks of extending Wowza Media Server Pro with Wowza Integrated Development Environment (Wowza IDE), a free tool based on the popular Eclipse application framework that can also be used to configure and manage Wowza Pro.

   Secure - strong suite of protection measures for your streamed content

Wowza Pro offers a complete suite of security measures to guard your streamed content form intrusion, unauthorized diversion and ripping. In addition to conventional measures like trusted domains/IP addresses and encrypted transport tunneling with RTMPE/RTMPS, Wowza's unique SecureToken, an encrypted challenge/response methodology, provides strong protection against threats from streaming media ripping products like Replay Media Catcher.

   Compatible - full RTMP and RSO support for true streaming to the Flash client

Wowza Pro's RTMP libraries ensure full compatibility with Flash player client and live RTMP encoders.

Wowza Pro also supports ingest from the industry-standard live H.264 RTSP/RTP encoders for streaming of H.264/HE-AAC content to the Flash player over RTMP. This exclusive compatibility protects your investment in existing H.264 encoder infrastructure and lets you easily re-purpose live H.264/HE-AAC content.

   Manageable - standards based, easy to deploy and integrate

Wowza Media Server Pro offers extensive, infrastructure grade management and administrative functionality. The server implements a standards-based Java Management Extension (JMX) interface and logging (log4j). This facilitates management and monitoring with a variety of administration consoles like JConsole and MC4J, and management systems including HP OpenView, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic and many others. The standards-based W3C logging can be used with popular log analysis and reporting software like Sawmill and Plesk. For multi-server deployments, Wowza Pro allows you to manage your server configurations centrally.

   Cross-platform - runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris, and more…

Wowza Media Server Pro is a pure Java server which gives you the freedom to deploy it on the OS platform of your choice. Windows (including Vista), all variants of Linux, Unix, Solaris and Mac OSX running Java 1.5 or later are supported.

   Supported - Wowza's world-class support is unmatched in the industry

Wowza's world-class support is unmatched in the industry. We are committed to your success. To see for yourself, review the Wowza Pro forums (new window) and Customer Testimonials - they tell the whole story.

   Economical - unlimited connections at unbeatable prices

The Wowza Media Server Pro Unlimited edition for non-service provider deployments gives you full interactivity with numerous exclusive features, unlimited connections/unlimited bandwidth streaming at an unbeatable price of just $995. The Wowza Media Server Pro with MPEG-TS edition, priced at $1995, further expands the live H.264 encoder interoperability for streaming from broadcast, IPTV and other MPEG-TS based infrastructures. Volume discounts begin when you buy two or more servers.

Separate licensing terms are offered for service providers such as Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), hosting and streaming services. These licensing terms include full Wowza Media Server Pro Unlimited with MPEG-TS edition capabilities, flexible license deployment models, comprehensive upgrade policies and the exclusive benefits of the Wowza Streaming Partner program for qualifying service providers. Contact sales@wowzamedia.com for details.

 

This is just a brief overview — so be sure to review the Wowza Media Server Pro Overview (pdf) for additional details and highlights and see why Wowza is the smart choice — Wowza Pro - FMIS/FMSS comparison chart.