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Wowza Media Server 2 is not just a high-performance, extensible and a fully interactive Flash media server - it takes the proven Wowza Pro platform beyond Flash by adding H.264 support for: 
•Apple iPhone and iPod touch 
•Microsoft Silverlight 
•Apple QuickTime 
•Set-top boxes and more 
Wowza Media Server is the world's first platform that lets you stream from one H.264 encode simultaneously to multiple players and devices. It unifies the multi-protocol, multi-player H.264 streaming into a single workflow, eliminating the need for multiple player-specific encoders and servers. And Wowza Media Server 2 delivers all that at an unbeatable price — 75% less than the single-protocol Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server (FMIS) or Microsoft Windows Server® with IIS. 

Proclaimed the Best Streaming Innovation of 2009, and hailed 'the smart choice' by our customers and the industry, Wowza Media Server 2 makes streaming affordable for organizations of all sizes — from the smallest enterprises to hosting providers and CDNs. 

Wowza Media Server 2 is available in several editions to meet your business and technical needs — see our Editions and Pricing page for more details on the edition that is right for you. 

Our customers are using Wowza Media Server 2 in many creative ways, in a variety of applications — explore why Wowza Media Server Pro is the smart choice for you too: 


Industrial Strength 

   High-performance - highly multi-threaded 64-bit architecture

Wowza Media Server 2 is a highly multi-threaded 64-bit Java server that delivers unprecedented performance for on-demand and live streaming, and interactive applications. The bottom line — you can count on Wowza Media Server 2 to deliver.


   Reliable - built from the ground up as an infrastructure-grade server

Your objective is to stream multi-protocol media without worries. That is why we built Wowza Media Server 2 on the proven Wowza Pro platform — deployed around the world by over 30,000 licensees. It delivers the reliability you need to maintain 24/7 uptimes at high traffic loads.


   Unified - standard H.264, encoded once, delivered everywhere 

Wowza Media Server 2 is the world's first media platform to unify multi-protocol, multi-player H.264 streaming into a single workflow that lets you stream to multiple players simultaneously from virtually any convetiinal RTSP/RTP, MPEG-TS or RTMP encoders or files in many standard containers (.f4v, .mp4, .m4a, .mov, .mp4v, .3gp, and .3g2). No more special player-specific encoders or servers. That's how Wowza saves you money and lets your content flourish. 


   Scalable - multi-server scalability for live or on-demand

The Wowza Media Server 2 performance on a single server sets it apart in a category by itself. Beyond that, Wowza Server 2 makes multi-server scalability easy and cost effective — it features Live Stream Repeater functionality as a standard feature so you can infinitely scale up live streaming when and were needed. The Wowza server robust demand-based load balancing ensures that your live and on-demand streams will be distributed efficiently among multiple servers without overwhelming your infrastructure.


   Extensible - comprehensive API's, scripting, programming and integration

A robust set of API's and the power of Java let you extend the Wowza Media Server 2 functionality with custom modules to fit perfectly with your applications and environment. Wowza also simplifies the tasks of extending Wowza Media Server with Wowza Integrated Development Environment (Wowza IDE), a free tool based on the popular Eclipse application framework that can also be used to configure and manage the Wowza servers.


   Manageable - standards based, easy to deploy and integrate

Wowza Media Server 2 offers extensive, infrastructure grade management and administrative functionality. A standards-based Java Management Extension (JMX) interface and logging (log4j) Standards-based W3C loggin