Wowza Streaming Engine

Wowza Streaming Engine

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About Wowza Streaming Engine

Wowza Streaming Engine is a customizable streaming server software that enables users to build a wide range of video streaming solutions. With several concurrent transcoded channels, it is suitable for occasional on-premises streaming needs or unpredictable events and audiences.

The software facilitates streaming from any source to any screen using common protocols. It powers solutions for live events, video on demand, large-scale broadcasting, and more. Features include support for virtual reality, closed captions, ad insertion, and an array of security measures like digital rights management and encryption. A content delivery network helps guard against denial of service attacks while delivering streams worldwide.

Wowza Streaming Engine offers real-time streaming via WebRTC along with low-latency HLS and DASH for speedy delivery at scale. It ships with comprehensive APIs, software development kits, and developer tools to enable rapid integration.


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Overall rating

4.3 /5
(45)
Value for Money
4.1/5
Features
4.1/5
Ease of Use
3.9/5
Customer Support
3.9/5

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Gregory
Gregory
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Quality transmissions

Reviewed on 2023/05/25

When using WebRTC, Apple Low-Latency HLS or SRT, its speed is incredible, providing perfect image...

When using WebRTC, Apple Low-Latency HLS or SRT, its speed is incredible, providing perfect image quality, which was previously difficult for us to achieve when streaming.

Pros

I like how well it works, at first I really liked their customer service where they explained everything to me in a friendly and easy way to understand the functions to put them into execution in the transmissions that have been more innovative and more stable at the time

Cons

I just have to say that they have provided an excellent service more than expected

Andrew
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Wowza Engine at GST

Reviewed on 2023/09/18

Pros

Easy to use right out of the box to do Live Streaming.It has its own API for us to use in our applications.

Cons

The (UPGRADE) process could be a little more smoother.

Clinton
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Poor customer experience with support and billing

Reviewed on 2022/06/23

Our overall experience with Wowza Streaming Engine has been a mixed bag. It has required a lot of...

Our overall experience with Wowza Streaming Engine has been a mixed bag. It has required a lot of time and work to achieve the results that we were looking for. Upgrades and patching have been difficult and the documentation is at times out of date, incorrect, or difficult to follow. Support has been difficult to deal with especially since they will reference and send you links to the documentation to "help." It's been very difficult to work with Wowza and our experience overall has been poor. The software works well enough to get the job done but offers nothing exceptional in return.

Pros

Wowza has been an important part of our systems over the past 7 years or so. We have built several systems around streaming video on campus for different purposes. Wowza has been a mostly stable product that has allowed us to transmux, transcode, and distribute video across campus for a decent price.

Cons

The configuration and management of the servers is difficult. Upgrades in our environment are difficult because named user account configurations are difficult to deal with around the Wowza Streaming Engine product. You have not made it easy to upgrade software and full version upgrades from version 3 to version 4 was incredibly difficult. Webrtc implementation took some work to get working properly. Documentation is out of date at times and hard to follow.

Customer support has been the worst experience we have had here and is causing us to rethink our use of Wowza. We keep on trying to change our billing but no one will work with us on it and we keep having billing issues every year. We never receive billing notices. We get late notices without ever receiving an initial billing notice or request. We request a PO but only get told to use a card. Our customer service representative never returns our calls and has not been helpful in this matter.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Online Media
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

The most flexible and economical streaming video platform

Reviewed on 2023/09/05

Pros

Simple to use, a large community available to find more specific solutions, good frequency of updates, excellent support.

Cons

The documentation is sometimes too vague, to solve a simple and specific problem you have to proceed with trial and error.

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Paresh
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  • Industry: Consumer Electronics
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The most versatile and cost-effective streaming video platform.

Reviewed on 2023/09/20

Pros

Wowza Streaming engine is easy to use, develop customized solution which helps us to develop feature on top of streaming service, frequent updates for technology , and outstanding customer support available.

Cons

The resource demand for transcoding is substantial.

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Wowza Streaming Engine offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$195.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Basic - $125 Price per Month/Prepaid Annually

Wowza Streaming Engine has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Wowza Streaming Engine supports the following languages:

English

Wowza Streaming Engine supports the following devices:

We do not have any information about what integrations Wowza Streaming Engine has

Wowza Streaming Engine offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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