Wowza
Video streaming server software for live and on-demand streaming
Wowza Streaming Engine is video streaming server software that organizations deploy on-premises, in air-gapped or offline environments, or across private, public, hybrid, and edge cloud infrastructure. It ingests live and on-demand sources over protocols including RTSP, SRT, RTMP, WebRTC, UDP, and MPEG-TS, then transcodes and packetizes them for delivery via HLS/LL-HLS, MPEG-DASH, and WebRTC. The platform also includes Video Intelligence Framework, which applies real-time AI to streams for object detection and event logging, with support for bringing your own models.
Key capabilities include low-latency transcoding, protocol transmuxing, recording and clipping, and delivery to control centers, NOCs, AI/analytics engines, direct IP streams, and CDNs. It integrates through APIs, SDKs, Java modules, and MCP, and supports modern and legacy codecs such as H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP8, VP9, Opus, AAC, and MP3. Security features include TLS/HTTPS, AES-128 HLS encryption, token-based access, multi-DRM support, and watermarking. It runs on Linux, Windows, x86_64, ARM64, GPU-accelerated hardware, and Docker/Kubernetes.
Wowza Streaming Engine is packaged as a one-month prepaid plan, a recurring monthly plan, and custom enterprise plans, with usage based on concurrent instances and transcoded channels. Additional instances and transcoded channels are billed separately, and annual plans, containerized deployment pricing, and offline deployment pricing are available on request.
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