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Wowza Streaming Engine

Wowza Streaming Engine is a battle-tested commercial media server for reliable live and video-on-demand streaming, available in the NetActuate Marketplace as a bring-your-own-license (BYOL) appliance you can deploy into any PoP. It ingests from virtually any source, transcodes and packages on the fly, and delivers adaptive streams over HLS, MPEG-DASH, WebRTC, SRT, RTMP, and RTSP, all administered through the web-based Wowza Streaming Engine Manager. This appliance is grouped under the Media & Streaming category.

What It Does​

Wowza Streaming Engine handles the full path from ingest to delivery for live and on-demand video. Common uses include:

  • Low-latency live event, sports, and broadcast streaming to large audiences
  • Secure enterprise and OTT video delivery with DRM and access control
  • IP camera and surveillance ingest with adaptive web playback
  • Interactive, real-time WebRTC and SRT contribution workflows

Deploying Wowza in a PoP near your audience shortens the path from ingest to viewer and reduces buffering. You can transcode and package regionally so adaptive streams reach local devices with minimal latency, and place ingest points close to venues and contributors for resilient live production.

Vendor and Project​

Wowza Streaming Engine is a commercial product from Wowza Media Systems, offered here as a BYOL appliance. You supply your own Wowza license; the software itself is billed by Wowza.

NetActuate supports the underlying infrastructure. Application-level support for Wowza follows the partner SLA class and your Wowza license agreement.

Sizing​

vCPURAMDisk
Minimum24 GB40 GB
Recommended816 GB100 GB

This appliance benefits from a NETINT VPU for hardware-accelerated transcoding where one is available, and runs without one. Choose a size at deploy based on the number of concurrent streams and whether you transcode.

Configuration Fields​

When you deploy, you provide these fields. They are written into the appliance at first boot. Secret fields are stored write-only in your account.

FieldRequiredDefaultNotes
License KeyYesnoneYour Wowza Streaming Engine license key, from your Wowza account. Stored write-only and seeded into the appliance at boot
Manager UserNowowzaUsername for the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager web console
Manager PasswordNogeneratedPassword for the Manager console. Left blank, one is generated and stored write-only in your secret list
RTMP PortNo1935RTMP ingest port
RTSP PortNo554RTSP ingest port

Using the Appliance​

After the build completes:

  1. Connect over SSH as the ubuntu user with the password or SSH key you set at deploy.
  2. Open the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager at http://YOUR_VM_IP:8088/enginemanager and sign in with the manager user and password you supplied.
  3. Your BYOL license key is applied at deploy. Confirm it under Server in the Manager.
  4. Publish RTMP to rtmp://YOUR_VM_IP:1935/live and deliver adaptive HLS, DASH, and WebRTC to your viewers.

FAQ​

Do I need my own license? Yes. Wowza Streaming Engine is BYOL. Bring a license from Wowza; you provide the key at deploy and it is seeded securely into the appliance. NetActuate bills only the infrastructure and bandwidth.

Where is the management console? The Wowza Streaming Engine Manager runs on port 8088 at path /enginemanager.

Which protocols are supported? Ingest and delivery over HLS, MPEG-DASH, WebRTC, SRT, RTMP, and RTSP, with live transcoding and adaptive bitrate packaging.

Can I use hardware transcoding? Yes, where a NETINT VPU is available at the chosen location. Select a VPU-capable size at deploy.

Version and Changelog​

VersionStatusReleased
1.0.0Current (default)2026-07-09

Deploy​

Need Help?​

Contact support@netactuate.com or open a support ticket from the portal.