San Jose & San Francisco, CA, April 1, 2008 - Wowza Media Systems, an emerging leader in streaming media server software, and Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in WAN optimization, today announced a partnership that empowers enterprises to take full advantage of Flash, the most widely used video format on the Internet, with the industry’s first WDS-accelerated streaming solution.
Under the terms of the partnership, the RiOS Services Platform (RSP) runs Wowza Media Server in a protected partition on Steelhead appliances, so IT can easily deploy and manage the software without the need for additional hardware in remote offices. Users of the Wowza Media Server Pro software module will experience reductions of video traffic over the wide area network (WAN) by as much as 98%, for both live and on-demand Flash video content.
“Enterprises are increasingly using video as means of communication for live broadcasts of CEO addresses, VOD training, and more, said David Stubenvoll, CEO and Co-Founder, Wowza Media Systems. At the same time, enterprises also realize that video can put a huge strain on their WAN and costs can skyrocket quickly. With Wowza Pro on Steelhead appliances, systems administrators are able to dramatically reduce WAN video traffic, thereby eliminating this cost factor as a barrier to deploying video in the enterprise.”
Wowza Media Server Pro is a proven Flash streaming media server software with over 6,000 global licensees in industries ranging from entertainment, broadcasting, education, and government to Internet commerce, social media, and data services. It has been recognized as one of the top three media servers, placing alongside Adobe and Microsoft in the 2007 Streaming Media Readers Choice awards. Wowza Pro is also praised by its customers as the smart choice for Flash video streaming.
“The strong industry reputation and the exceptional performance of Wowza Media Server Pro were just two of the many reasons we chose Wowza to be a video delivery solution partner,” commented Jess Leroy, director of product management at Riverbed. “We are excited to make this best-of-class software available to our customers.”
The Riverbed RSP is an extensible data services platform that enables the delivery of virtualized edge services without the need to deploy additional physical servers at remote or branch offices. The game-changing RSP allows customers to deploy best-of-breed services from their choice of vendors on Steelhead appliances in a self-contained partition to minimize the hardware infrastructure footprint at the branch office. In a typical RSP deployment, companies can run serverless branch offices by simplifying IT infrastructure to include just a router and a Steelhead appliance.
While WDS is highly valued, customer demand is fragmented among the array of other edge services desired, including video delivery. By offering an open development platform, architected to provide a variety of hooks and taps into the data flow with the appropriate module, Riverbed matches the customer need.
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