Wowza Media Server 2 - The Platform For Streaming Flash, iPhone, Silverlight and more.

Wowza Media Server 2
The World's First Unified Media Server

Wowza Media Server 2 is not just a high-performance, extensible and a fully interactive Flash media server - it takes the proven Wowza Pro platform beyond Flash by adding H.264 support for:

Apple iPhone and iPod touch
Microsoft Silverlight
Apple QuickTime
Set-top boxes and more

Wowza Media Server is the world's first platform that lets you stream from one H.264 encode simultaneously to multiple players and devices. It unifies the multi-protocol, multi-player H.264 streaming into a single workflow, eliminating the need for multiple player-specific encoders and servers. And Wowza Media Server 2 delivers all that at an unbeatable price — 75% less than the single-protocol Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server (FMIS) or Microsoft Windows Server® with IIS.

Proclaimed the Best Streaming Innovation of 2009, and hailed 'the smart choice' by our customers and the industry, Wowza Media Server 2 makes streaming affordable for organizations of all sizes — from the smallest enterprises to hosting providers and CDNs.

Wowza Media Server 2 is available in several editions to meet your business and technical needs — see our Editions and Pricing page for more details on the edition that is right for you.

Our customers are using Wowza Media Server 2 in many creative ways, in a variety of applications — explore why Wowza Media Server Pro is the smart choice for you too:

Industrial Strength

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

Wowza Media Server 2 is a highly multi-threaded 64-bit Java server that delivers unprecedented performance for on-demand and live streaming, and interactive applications. The bottom line — you can count on Wowza Media Server 2 to deliver.

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

Your objective is to stream multi-protocol media without worries. That is why we built Wowza Media Server 2 on the proven Wowza Pro platform — deployed around the world by over 30,000 licensees. It delivers the reliability you need to maintain 24/7 uptimes at high traffic loads.

Unified - standard H.264, encoded once, delivered everywhere

Wowza Media Server 2 is the world's first media platform to unify multi-protocol, multi-player H.264 streaming into a single workflow that lets you stream to multiple players simultaneously from virtually any convetiinal RTSP/RTP, MPEG-TS or RTMP encoders or files in many standard containers (.f4v, .mp4, .m4a, .mov, .mp4v, .3gp, and .3g2). No more special player-specific encoders or servers. That's how Wowza saves you money and lets your content flourish.

Scalable - multi-server scalability for live or on-demand

The Wowza Media Server 2 performance on a single server sets it apart in a category by itself. Beyond that, Wowza Server 2 makes multi-server scalability easy and cost effective — it features Live Stream Repeater functionality as a standard feature so you can infinitely scale up live streaming when and were needed. The Wowza server robust demand-based load balancing ensures that your live and on-demand streams will be distributed efficiently 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 Media Server 2 functionality with custom modules to fit perfectly with your applications and environment. Wowza also simplifies the tasks of extending Wowza Media Server 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 the Wowza servers.

Manageable - standards based, easy to deploy and integrate

Wowza Media Server 2 offers extensive, infrastructure grade management and administrative functionality.

A standards-based Java Management Extension (JMX) interface and logging (log4j)
Standards-based W3C logging, including per-session logging for all player types
Management and monitoring with a variety of administration consoles like JConsole and MC4J
Compatibility with management systems including HP OpenView, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic and others.
Log analysis and reporting with software like Sawmill

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

Wowza Media Server 2 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 1.6 or later.

Economical - unlimited multi-protocol connections at unbeatable prices

The Wowza Server Software Subscription gives you full Wowza Media Server 2 functionality, including all future upgrades, without a large up-front financial commitment or long term contract at an unbeatable price of just $65 or less per server/month. It lets you dynamically scale up and down as you need and pay only for the server instances you're actually using. Service providers may also qualify for the exclusive benefits of the Wowza Streaming Partner program — contact sales@wowzamedia.com for details.

Other economical licensing options for non-service providers are also available.

Streaming Beyond Flash

Flash - fully interactive Flash media streaming

Wowza Media Server 2 delivers a complete interactive Flash media streaming feature set proven by over 30,000 licensees worldwide on the award-winning Wowza Pro platform. It delivers file streaming in all Flash player-compatible formats, including FLV and H.264 video, MP3 and HE-AAC audio, as well as the exclusive features you can't get with FMIS/FMSS.

100% Flash and Flash Lite 3 player compatibility
Live, on-demand streaming up to 1080p HD
Chat, recording, collaboration
Complete RTMP support, including secure RTMPE variant
Remote Shared Objects (RSO)
Dynamic streaming
Flash (RTMP) and Non-Flash (RTSP/RTP, MPEG-TS) live encoder support
Exclusive MP3 and AAC SHOUTcast/Icecast re-streaming
TiVo-like Fast Forward/Rewind trick play for prerecorded Flash (.flv) files
Bi-directional AMF3 support
Support for all Flash player video and audio formats

iPhone - live and on-demand HTTP Streaming

Wowza Media Server 2 features our own implementation of the Apple stream segmenter that lets you deliver H.264 (baseline 3.0 or lower) content using Apple HTTP Streaming protocol directly from any standard RTSP/RTP, MPEG-TS or Flash (RTMP)encoders, as well as the H.264 files in a variety of file container formats — no external stream/file pre-segmentation is required.

Wowza Media Server 2 supports:

In browser playback on iPhone 3.0 OS or later devices, desktop QuickTime player (10.0 or later) and Safari browser (4.0 or later) using HTML5 tag
Multi-bitrate adaptive streaming — consistent video delivery in variable wireless conditions, from EDGE to WiFi
AES-128 encrypted streaming
Per-session logging for complete content usage visibility
Multi-server streaming scalability for a virtually unlimited capacity

Silverlight - live and on-demand smooth streaming

Wowza Media Server 2 features our own implementation of the Microsoft smooth streaming segmenter that lets you deliver H.264 content directly from any standard RTSP/RTP, MPEG-TS or Flas (RTMP) encoders, as well as the H.264 files in a variety of file container formats — no external stream/file pre-segmentation is required.

Wowza Media Server 2 supports:

Stream Silverlight from any OS - Windows Server and IIS are not needed
Compatible with Silverlight player (3.0 or later)
Multi-bitrate smooth streaming
Per-session logging for complete content usage visibility
Multi-server streaming scalability for a virtually unlimited capacity

QuickTime - live RTSP streaming

With Wowza you don't need to deploy separate QuickTime Streaming Servers (Darwin) servers — Wowza Media Server 2 can stream live H.264, AAC and MP3 content to the QuickTime and other players and devices that support the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP).

SHOUTcast/icecast - multi-client audio re-streaming

Thanks to the Wowza Media Server 2 exclusive SHOUTcast/icecast re-streaming capability, delivering the best sounding AAC, AAC-LC, aacPlus (HE-AAC) and MP3 audio to the biggest audiences on the Internet has never been easier. Now you can re-stream SHOUTcast content from existing SHOUTcast servers to Flash, iPhone, Silverlight, 3GPP mobile devices and more.

And more... - 3GPP mobile, IPTV and more...

Wowza Media Server 2 can stream live H.264, AAC and MP3 content to players and devices that support the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and MPEG2 Transport Stream protocol (MPEG-TS). This enables streaming to many compatible players and devices, including 3GPP mobile devices and IPTV set-top boxes. You can even create desktop "Flash phone" applications that integrate with VOIP or PSTN over RTSP using Speex audio.

This is just a brief overview — so be sure to review the Wowza Media Server 2 Overview (pdf) for additional details and highlights, and make Wowza your choice.