Wowza Streaming Engine Featured
The industry-standard live streaming server, one-click in 45+ PoPs.
Wowza Streaming Engine is a battle-tested commercial media server (offered here as bring-your-own-license) for reliable live and video-on-demand streaming to millions of viewers. 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 on port 8088.
Key features
- Broad protocol support for ingest and delivery (HLS, MPEG-DASH, WebRTC, SRT, RTMP, RTSP, and more)
- Live transcoding and adaptive bitrate packaging for any screen and connection
- Browser-based Wowza Streaming Engine Manager for setup, monitoring, and configuration
- REST API and Java module SDK for automation and custom stream logic
- DVR, recording, and nDVR for time-shifted and on-demand playback
- Stream security with token authentication, DRM integration, and geo/IP restrictions
- Scales from a single instance to load-balanced, multi-server deployments
Use cases
- 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
Why run it on the NetActuate edge Deploy Wowza in a PoP near your audience to shorten the path from ingest to viewer and reduce buffering. Transcode and package regionally so adaptive streams reach local devices with minimal latency, and place ingest points close to venues and contributors for resilient, low-jitter live production.
Frequently asked questions
How do I deploy Wowza Streaming Engine on NetActuate?
Use the Deploy on NetActuate button to talk to our team. We provision Wowza Streaming Engine on a NetActuate virtual machine in the point of presence you choose, close to your audience. Each deployment runs in the single location you select.
What does it cost to run Wowza Streaming Engine?
Wowza Streaming Engine is a bring-your-own-license (BYOL) appliance: you supply your own license from Wowza, and it is applied securely when the appliance first boots. On top of that you pay only NetActuate's standard compute rates for the virtual-machine size and point of presence you choose - NetActuate adds no usage-based or per-hour software fees.
Where can Wowza Streaming Engine run?
Wowza Streaming Engine can be deployed in any of NetActuate's 45+ points of presence across every continent, so you can place ingest, transcode, delivery and caching close to your contributors and viewers.
Who supports Wowza Streaming Engine?
NetActuate operates and supports the underlying infrastructure - the virtual machine, network and edge platform. The application itself is supported by its vendor, Wowza.
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