Wowza streaming engine review
#WOWZA STREAMING ENGINE REVIEW SOFTWARE#
About a decade ago, give or take, the industry decided to replace traditional streaming server software with generic HTTP-based web server software. One of the main reasons that most of today’s streaming has significant latency is that it’s been purpose-built to do so. Readers of this review have invariably felt the pain points of interactive video over the past 18 months: inconsistent delivery of content that’s intended to be very low latency, unpredictable audience size, and an overall lack of interactivity that plagues traditional streaming. I’ve had the chance to look at several real-time solutions over the past 25 years, both in my role as product reviewer for a number of magazines and online newsletters (including Streaming Media magazine) and more recently as the founding executive director of the industry’s first charity-based research firm, the 501(c)3 Help Me Stream Research Foundation, so I was delighted to put Wowza’s solution through its paces.
Wowza contacted me recently to review a new feature of Wowza Streaming Cloud that enables real-time streaming at scale. Wowza adds feature that merges benefits of legacy and newer delivery solutions
Tim Siglin is a product reviewer for streaming solutions and the founder of Help Me Stream Research Foundation