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Wowza Media Systems Inc., based in Evergreen, Colorado U.S.A., is the "Any Screen Done Right™" streaming media server software company. The company was founded in late 2005 by David Stubenvoll and Charlie Good when they saw a need to provide disruptive products to fill the gaps in the media server market. The company's industrial strength Wowza Media Server software, initially released in early 2007 to provide a lower cost alternative to Adobe Flash Media Server, experienced rapid market acceptance. With the 2009 introduction of Wowza Media Server 2, the "H.264 everywhere" server platform, Wowza took it beyond Flash by adding streaming support for Apple iOS devices (iPhone/iPad), Microsoft Silverlight, Apple QuickTime, Android, Blackberry and other 3GPP samtphones and tablets, as well as IPTV/OTT set-tops and living room game consoles. The recently launched Wowza Media Server 3 is the next generation of its award-wining software providing a single extensible foundation and value-added components for "Any Screen Done Right" media delivery. Wowza Media Server 3 makes hard to implement features such as adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming, time-shifted playback, and digital rights protection simple and cost-effective. Now content publishers, service providers, and other organizations of any size can profit from these high-value features while offering their viewers the best possible experience when and where they want it. Today the company's high performance Wowza Media Server software is used by over 80,000 licensees in more than 150 countries. Customers include service providers, radio and TV broadcasters, media properties, enterprises, educational institutions, OEMs, government and other organizations serious about delivering video to any digital screen — computer, mobile phone, and home TV. Any-screen delivery has become the most important industry trend, ranked significantly higher than any other, according to the Devoncroft Partners 2011 Big Broadcast Survey (BBS). According to the 2011 Cisco Visual Networking Index, video on the Internet is exploding. Video will account for 62% of all Internet traffic by 2015, up from 42% today. 66% of all Internet video will be mobile by 2015, and Internet video to TVs will grow 17-fold in the same timeframe. While the industry continues to produce a multitude of competing technologies and devices, what consumers really care about is "their-screen availability". The flexibility to accommodate consumer needs, rather than force a consumer's technology preference will become paramount to the content industry. This necessitates the need to rebuild the media delivery infrastructure in a way that provides operational efficiency and creates cost-effective and more advanced solutions. By doing this content owners and service providers are allowed greater opportunity to monetize their content, while consumers benefit from a broader spectrum of choices. Wowza is solving these challenges with its unified media delivery software capable of serving video to any platform and any screen. |
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