Avalon 4.0 Will Support Wowza

Many of our partners and potential partners who are interested in running Avalon need to start with a decision about their streaming server.We've heard from many of you that are currently a Wowza shop, and you report that it has worked really well for you, and are thus inclined to stay with Wowza.  Now we can announce that during this last sprint, our developers have made Avalon compatible!

 

For those of you who aren’t aware, Wowza Streaming EngineTM is high performance, extensible and fully interactive media streaming software platform that provides live and on-demand streaming, cha, and remote recording capabilities to a wide variety of media player technologies. The Wowsa Streaming Engine can deliver content to many popular media players such as Adobe Flash Player; Microsoft Silverlight player; Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and Apple QuickTime player (version 10 or later); Android smartphones and tablets; and IPTV/OTT set-top boxes.  Wowza Streaming Engine includes support for many streaming protocols including Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (Adobe HDS), Apple HTTP Live Streaming (Apple HLS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming, MPEG_DASH streaming, MPEG-2 Transport Streams (MPEG-TS), Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP).  It’s an alternative to the Adobe Media Server, Darwin Streaming Server, Microsoft IIS Media Services and other media servers.

 

Now, Avalon is connected to Wowza, creating an easy solution for many institutions that were already using Wowza for other media streaming projects. 

 

Of course this is blog worthy for a couple of reasons, one being we hope that this will open the door to many Wowza shops, but we also hope that our community is feeling heard as we prepare to release Avalon 4.0.  Your feedback is crucial to making Avalon a success, and we welcome all questions and comments.  The best place to reach out is avalon-discuss-l@list.indiana.edu.

 

Release 4.0 is coming soon – look here for more updates.