What is Wowza Media Server?
You've arrived at this page because you're curious as to what Wowza Media Server is. Being that a good portion of our products are built on it and we do extensive development and consulting with it, it's fair to say that we can probably write a good description. You may also be interested in our explanation of what Flash Media Server is.
First and foremost Wowza Media Server is a live and on demand video/audio streaming server. With WMS you can provide streaming to not only desktops within a browser in Flash, but also iOS devices and Quicktime, Android devices, Sliverlight, Shoutcast/Icecast and Blackberry along with other 3GPP platforms. With all of those covered it's no surprise that you can also stream to set-top boxes and game consoles too. Wowza Media Server is an extremely versatile video/audio streaming server that will most likely meet just about any need you have for streaming to devices out there.
With all of that under its belt, WMS also handles live communication and data push/pull with ease. This means that you can create live applications like video/audio/text chat applications, live conference and teaching applications that leverage video/audio and data transfer, video and audio recording on demand and many more applications. Pretty much anything you can think of. Wowza's powerful server side scripting environment also lets you talk to databases, email servers and many more backend technologies to deliver a seamless experience within your application that most likely lives within the Flash Player by Adobe.
In comparison to the competition, Flash Media Server by Adobe, Wowza Media Server has a far lower price point with just as much if not more functionality to it. This means that you get a much higher return on investment, as long as you are leveraging the power of this server software.
To learn even more about Wowza Media Server, please check out their website.
The products that we have on hand to demonstrate the functionality of Wowza can be located here: