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



Wowza Media Systems
Addressing the Needs of a Rapidly Growing Market
Wowza Media Systems, based in Evergreen, CO is a streaming media server software company. The company was founded in late 2005 by David Stubenvoll and Charlie Good when they saw a need to provide a disruptive product to fill the gaps in the Flash media server market. Wowza's industrial strength Wowza Media Server software experienced rapid market acceptance, and with a 2009 introduction of Wowza Media Server 2, the world’s first unified media server, Wowza took it beyond Flash by adding streaming support for Apple iPhone/iPad and iPod touch, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple QuickTime, Android, BlackBerry and other mobile devices, and IPTV set-tops.

Today the company’s high performance Wowza Media Server software is used by over 45,000 licensees in more than 60 countries. Wowza’s customers include service providers, media properties, enterprises, educational institutions, OEMs, government and other organizations serious about delivering video to any digital screen — computer, mobile phone, and home TV.

We are addressing the needs of a rapidly growing streaming media market. According to AccuStream Research, "The demand for online video continues unabated with double-digit year-to-year growth forecasted through 2012". The figures published by industry analysts Point Topic show that there are now more than 466 million broadband customers in the world. Coda Research Consultancy estimates that by 2015 mobile video will account for 68.5 percent of all mobile US data usage, and 95 million of the total 158 million mobile Internet users in the US will be watching video on their phones. Growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa could outpace North America. In a 2008 study, Gartner said the Asia-Pacific IPTV subscriber base will reach 8.7 million in 2012, generating US$3.5 billion in revenue. Europe, Latin America and the US are also poised for strong IPTV growth.

The proliferation of competing video delivery technologies on the desktop as well as on the video-enabled mobile and home devices necessitates the need to rebuild media delivery infrastructure in a way that provides operational efficiency and creates cheaper and more advanced solutions, increased competition and greater opportunity for providers and broader choices for consumers. Wowza is solving these challenges by creating unified media delivery software capable of serving video from any codec, over any protocol, to any player.