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An interview from the 2016 National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas with Christian Sharkey of Wowza Media Systems. Wowza Media Systems enables organizations to harness the power of streaming by reducing the complexities of video and audio delivery to any device.
Fortune 100 companies, small to mid-sized businesses, leading Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), educational institutions, and government entities in more than 150 countries depend on leading-edge Wowza software to build, deploy, and manage streaming solutions for the delivery of high-quality and engaging live and on-demand experiences. In this interview Christan talks with us about Wowza Streaming Cloud & Wowza Streaming Engine as well as showcasing Virtual Reality and 360° Video Streaming with VideoStitch.
Wowza Streaming Cloud is the professional-grade service for live streaming to audiences of any size on any device—directly from a camera or encoder. Reach global audiences with high-quality, custom-branded videos—no additional infrastructure required. Power users get the utmost control and flexibility with customized APIs and advanced options, while preconfigured settings help both new and experienced users get started in minutes. Wowza Streaming Cloud is cost-effective, with no-commitment, pay-as-you-go pricing for video delivery to anyone, anywhere.
Wowza Streaming Engine is robust, customizable media server software that powers reliable streaming of high-quality video and audio to any device, anywhere. Whether you deploy it in the cloud or on premises, Wowza Streaming Engine software offers powerful components to tailor your streaming workflows with confidence.
VideoStitch offers proven interoperability for real-time, 4k video stitching and combined with Wowza Streaming Engine and its ability transcode video to accelerate distribution to any device, customers can deliver 4K-quality, 360-degree video with unprecedented quality, performance and speed.
In conjunction with YouTube, Wowza will be one of the first companies to demo new live streaming capabilities by pushing live streams to YouTube Live using VP9 video compression and dynamic streaming with MPEG-DASH. VP9 and DASH enable optimal HTML5 video playback, which continues to advance as an industry standard playback mechanism. This new capability in Wowza Streaming Engine adds additional live stream publishing support, in addition to RTMP, to YouTube.
For more information please visit: http://www.Wowza.com
