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



Wowza Media Server
Delivers in a Variety of Markets



With over 30,000 licensees on all four continents, Wowza Media Server's reliability, scalablity, extensibility, innovation, and the unbeatable economics are benefiting users in many different markets:


   Developers - FREE Developer edition, resources, tools and more

Wowza Media Server 2 gives you a proven, feature rich streaming platform to create and validate your Flash, iPhone, Silverlight and other applications and content, and deploy it commercially quickly and efficiently. You can start with our FREE Wowza Media Server 2 Developer edition. Then, to validate all capabilities with unlimited connections and streaming, request a 30-day FREE Wowza Server Evaluation license. For extended testing and production deployments use Wowza Media Server 2 Subscription, an extremely cost-effective monthly subscription that includes all future upgrades and requires no up-front investment or long term commitments.

Join the Wowza forums and become a part of the Wowza developer community. There you can reach out to the Wowza team and a community of your peers for helpful advice, to showcase your applications or share and find useful code.

   Content Publishers - Expand your content's reach for less

It’s not just about making you content available to the PC users anymore. Consumers want streamed video anywhere and on any device. Wowza Media Server 2 lets you achieve that. You can stream simultaneously to Flash and beyond — reaching the iPhone and iPod touch users, expanding to Microsoft’s Silverlight, or a variety of mobile devices and even to the IPTV set-top boxes. With Wowza Media Server 2 the boundaries are limitless — it lets your content flourish

Take advantage of this enormous opportunity with Wowza Media Server.. Stream more content to more destinations, make it more interactive, informative and profitable:
  • Monetize content by embedding or dynamically linking advertisements
  • Protect your content with streaming - avoid exposure to unauthorized reproduction and re-distribution common with "progressive download"
  • Chose standard RTSP/RTP, MPEG-TS or traditional Flash encoders to stream your live H.264 content to any player or device - only Wowza gives you that choice
  • Get significant savings by not having to employ separate player-specific encoders and server infrastructures
  • Lower your media storage costs by unifying your content to one common H.264 file format
  • Enhance the viewing experience with our TiVo®-like Fast Forward/Rewind for Flash VOD (.flv) feature

   Enterprises - Increase the velocity of your on-line communications

Increase the velocity of your on-line communications efforts with Wowza Media Server 2. Get the most get the most out of your video communications dollars by unify streaming across multiple player platforms — desktops/laptops, iPhones and other mobile devices, and even directly to IPTV set-top boxes in conference rooms or employee homes. You get all of this at up to 75% lower Total Cost of Ownership then the single-protocol Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server (FMIS) or Windows Server with IIS.

We are delighted with the stability and performance that we're getting from Wowza Media Server. Wowza was absolutely the right choice for our video streaming needs.

Sunil Verma
Macy's, United States

Whether your audience is just a few or thousands of people, Wowza Server Advanced let you:
  • Conduct interactive live video sessions with employees, customers, and investors
  • Archive live video broadcasts and immediately make them available for on-demand viewing
  • Post prerecorded content to be viewed efficiently anytime
  • Create video product announcements and messages for your web site
  • Deliver high-impact video training and webcasts
  • Save with web video conferencing
  • Enable interactive customer service environment with video/audio and text chat
Boost your business' efficiencies and gain the competitive advantage with Wowza now.

   Social Media Services - Wow your on-line community

Massive reach is the cornerstone of the social media. With Wowza Media Server 2 you can affordably reach on-line communities of any size, on any device. Stream live and pre-recorded video to desktops/laptops, iPhones and other mobile devices, or even bring your social community to the living room TVs. Make it interactive with cool Flash features — let users contribute video instantly using their web cams, send video messages and engage in live multi-user chat. You'll have the power to expand your membership by creating exciting social experience that will have them coming back again and again.
  • Add a "video answering machine" to your member's profiles to let them instantly video message each other
  • Enable easy-to-use video blogging (e.g. Seesmic)
  • Create chat rooms where members can join together to view movies, listen to music and interact
  • Let your members instantly contribute user generated movies for the whole community to see
  • Enable instant video "shout-outs" for members to comment on a variety of subjects
  • Deliver pay-per-view videos
  • Optimize your revenues by easily merging advertising with your content
With Wowza Media Server 2 you can do more and reach out farther than before. Go ahead — wow your community!

   Educational Institutions - Educate beyond the four walls of classrooms

Students are the most Internet-connected demographic. They consume video content on PC’s and Mac’s, iPhone's, iPod's, and other devices. With Wowza Media Server 2 you have a solution that can reach them all. It lets you take full advantage of the rapid proliferation of video-capable devices to effectively and economically deliver e-learning to audiences of any size — from just a few to thousands of students.

Wowza Media Servers are deployed in hundreds or universities and K-12 organizations around the world, streaming lectures, scientific discoveries, athletics and other events to students and faculty on multiple players and devices.

The multi-client reach and flexibility of the Wowza server has made it an essential technology component underpinning our online media strategy.

Patrick Stoddart, Manager of Web and Innovation
University of New South Wales, Australia

Here is how Wowza Media Server can boost your e-learning initiatives:

  • Reach more students with video on demand lessons or with interactive live video learning sessions
  • Instantly archive live sessions and make them available as on-demand content (also compatible with Lectpia and the TANDBERG Content Server (TCS)
  • Increase retention of pre-recorded lessons with our TiVo®-like Fast Forward/Rewind for Flash VOD (.flv) feature
  • Organize related lessons into a seamless presentation using chapter queues
  • Create interactive lesson reviews and administer on-line tests
  • Use networks of webcams for long term observation projects that your students can monitor remotely
Accredited educational institutions qualify for a 20% academic discount off the perpetual license list price — email edu@wowzamedia.com to request a discount coupon code or a quotation.

   Hosting Services - Invest less and earn more

Wowza Media Server 2 delivers superior economics, robust functionality and proven stability ideally suited for hosting applications. With its ability to stream simultaneously to Flash, iPhone, Silverlight and more, you can offer your customers a unique set of multi-protocol, multi-client capabilities without having to invest in separate client-specific servers or operating systems — with Wowza you can even deploy smooth streaming to the Microsoft Silverlight player without needing to deploy Windows Servers with IIS

With Wowza Pro you can support more users per physical machine, enabling you to generate more revenue and reduce your total cost of ownership.

Wowza enabled us to offer video hosting services that allow us to expand our customer base and provide leading edge video capabilities on a high performance streaming media infrastructure.

Brad Mitchell, CEO
MojoHost, United States

Wowza also makes live streaming easy for your customers. From just a single H.264 encode using a conventional H.264 RTMP, RTSP/RTP or MPEG-TS encoder, they can simultaneously deliver to Flash, iPhone and beyond. No more need to buy separate client-specific encoders. This enables the content to reach bigger audiences at a lower cost — and that will make your hosting service extremely attractive to more customers.

Wowza Media Server 2 is easy to manage. It uses the standards-based Java Management Extension (JMX) interface that works with a variety of administration consoles and management systems, and with its per-session logging for all playback client types you and your customers will easily see how the business is doing.

You will also benefit from the Wowza Server Subscription, a flexible and cost effective licensing for hosting and streaming services providers designed to work with your cash flows and operational needs. It provides you with flexible server deployment models that include all future upgrades at no additional cost, and no up-front investment in licenses or long term contracts. Qualifying service providers also receive the exclusive benefits of the Wowza Streaming Partner program. Contact sales@wowzamedia.com for details.

   Content Delivery Networks - Bigger margins, less infrastructure, more destinations

The facts are undisputed — content owners and publishers want their content delivered everywhere — to the desktop, mobile and the living room. Now you don't need to deploy separate server infrastructures or require your customers to use expensive client-specific encoders. Wowza Media Server 2 unifies your infrastructure and lets you simultaneously deliver content to the Flash player, iPhone, Silverlight and more from a standard live encode or file.

Reliability, scalability, and exceptional support are must-haves for any CDN; Wowza enables us to deliver on all three and in doing so puts us in a great position to service current and future customers' requirements.

James G. Hart, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Mirror Image, United States

Wowza Media Server 2 lets you generate higher profit margins and broaden your service portfolio without heavy infrastructure investments:
  • Offer simultaneous live and on-demand H.264 streaming to multiple players and devices
  • Stream live from any H.264 RTMP, RTSP/RTP or MPEG-TS encoder to any player
  • Support all Flash-compatible encoding formats
  • Attract more streaming TV content from broadcasters, cable, satellite and IPTV providers with standard RTSP/RTP and MPEG-TS stream ingest directly from the encoders they already use, a Wowza exclusive
  • Re-stream MP3 and AAC audio for radio broadcasters directly from their SHOUTcast/icecast sources to any player
  • Stream in any resolution up to 1080p HD
  • Give your customers a "peace of mind" with our comprehensive streaming content protection
You will also benefit from the Wowza Server Subscription, a flexible and cost effective licensing for Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), hosting and streaming services providers designed to work with your cash flows and operational needs. It provides you with flexible server deployment models that don't requires up-front investment in licenses, all future upgrades at no additional cost, and the exclusive benefits of the Wowza Streaming Partner program for qualifying service providers.

Don't delay — contact sales@wowzamedia.com today to discuss your specific needs and learn more about the benefits of deploying Wowza Media Server 2 in your CDN

   Radio Broadcasters/Netcasters - Put huge online audience within your reach

With Wowza Media Server 2 reaching huge Internet listening audiences has never been easier. You can stream live and on-demand programming, or mix both into a programming schedule. You can monetize your programming with advertising inserts and engage your listeners with interactive features such as Flash text and audio chat. And you can let your audiences see your DJ's in action right from the studio via live streaming to Flash, iPhone, Silverlight and more. The possibilities are endless.

With Wowza Pro, we can drastically improve the sound quality of our station streams and save money on bandwidth, without any major infrastructure changes.

Adam Hunter, Manager of Information Systems
Astral Media Radio GP, Canada

Wowza Pro offers you many options for best sounding MP3 and AAC audio streaming to fit your and your listeners' needs anywhere and on any device:
No matter what streaming model you chose, Wowza Media Server 2 delivers full metadata, including song titles and artists names to keep your audiences informed and engaged.

Let your content flourish. Turn to Wowza Media Server 2 and see your audience grow.

   TV/IPTV Broadcasters - TV everywhere

Finally, broadcasters, cable, telco, satellite and other providers interested in delivering TV programming over IP networks have a media server that provides an inexpensive streaming solution for WebTV, MobileTV and IPTV deployment — Wowza Media Server 2.

Wowza Media Server 2 unifies streaming into a single workflow, so you can deliver content from a single encode simultaneously to many popular player clients and devices, including Flash, iPhone, Silverlight, and IPTV set-top boxes. Just connect, and let your audiences enjoy your programming everywhere — on their desktops or laptops, on the go and in the comfort of their living rooms at up to full 1080p HD resolution.

Wowza gave us a unified streaming platform that greatly simplified our infrastructure and gave us tremendous competitive and cost advantage. I can't think of television streaming without it going forward.

Guillermo Revuelta, systems engineer
laSexta, Spain

You will enjoy many other benefits by deploying Wowza Media Server 2, including:
  • Live and on-demand H.264 streaming with best of class scalability and the industrial-strength resiliency
  • Superior extensibility for integration with ad servers, authentication, content management, billing and other backend systems
  • Full Flash interactivity for chat, remote recoding and collaboration
Deploy Wowza Media Server 2 on your own hardware or make sure to ask your favorite CDN for Wowza Media Server 2 by name. Don't limit the possibilities.

To learn how to take full advantage of Wowza Media Server 2 for broadcast content streaming contact sales@wowzamedia.com today.