Wowza Media Server Pro

Wowza Media Server Pro is a powerful and extensible pure Java alternative to Adobe Flash Media Server Wowza Media Server Pro is a powerful and extensible pure Java alternative to Adobe Flash Media Server application from which the user will get a great improvement of Flash streaming economics. With up to 80% lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Wowza Media Server makes Flash streaming affordable for organizations of all sizes - from individuals and enterprises, to hosting companies and CDNs.

Wowza Media Server Pro is a Flash streaming platform for a wide range of interactive and multimedia applications, including video on demand, live video distribution, video recording and chat. It is an infrastructure grade server that lets you scale cost-effectively with the exploding demand for streaming content. Wowza Media Server Pro is engineered to take full advantage of the performance gains in the new generation of 64-bit hardware and operating systems, and also to perform exceptionally well on 32-bit platforms. In either case, you can count on Wowza Media Server Pro for high performance and excellent stability.

Wowza Media Server Pro offers extensive, infrastructure grade management and administrative functionality. The server uses a standards-based Java Management Extention (JMX) interface that works with a variety of administation consoles and management systems including HP OpenView, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic and many others.

Here are some key features of "Wowza Media Server Pro":
Scalable - 64-bit architecture means more connections, less hardware
Extensible - comprehensive client side scripting & server side programming and integration
Reliable - built from the ground up as an infrastructure grade server
Compatible - full RTMP and RSO for true streaming to Flash client
Manageable - standards based logging and administration for easy deployment and integration
Cross-platform - runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris, and more...
Feature rich - including our exclusive TiVo-like Fast Forward/Rewind


Requirements:
As a minimum we recommend a dual core system with at least 1 GB of RAM per core. To get the most throughput out of Wowza Media Server we suggest you use RAID 0 or RAID 10 configurations with at least 2 or more disks in the array. Depending upon your application and load, you may need more or less horsepower.


Limitations:
the free version will stream up to 10 concurrent connections (unlimited bandwidth).