StreamZilla

StreamZilla FAQ

What is the difference between a video CMS and StreamZilla?

You cannot compare a Content Management System with a Content Delivery Network. A CMS is for managing and publishing content, a CDN is for hosting, intelligent delivery and reporting.

If you want to build a video service, you need both a CMS and a CDN, and perhaps also a transcoding system. StreamZilla offers many professional, standards based API's so you can easily integrate any professional CMS, portal, MAM and transcoding service with our CDN service.

What is the difference between a video portal and StreamZilla?

Video portals like YouTube are focussed on consumer video services. They are great for sharing personal videos. But you would not want your professional content on a consumer portal. You get no performance guarantees, you cannot manage your content formats, sizes and quality. You are limited to their portal features. You are locked to their player. Your content may be associated with other content that could have a negative influence. They may add advertisement around your content which you cannot control.

StreamZilla is for professionals. We do not limit your video formats, sizes, bit rates. We offer professional support. We offer service levels. White labelled players. No advertisement. Professional management tools. Professional reports. You can use our service to build your own video portal, by building or using any video CMS on top of our service. Many great video portals are powered by our CDN.

What is the difference between regular hosting and StreamZilla?

Regular hosting providers offer shared or dedicated servers with limited capacity, uptime and features. StreamZilla is a CDN: a cloud of many servers with advanced technologies. The benefits of a CDN are higher uptime, higher performance, higher capacity, support for streaming, live streaming, professional management, professional reports and professional (API) integration features.

What is the difference between regular streaming and StreamZilla?

A streaming operator has one or multiple streaming servers with limited uptime, performance and features.

StreamZilla is a CDN: a cloud of many servers with advanced technologies, managed by specialized engineers. The benefits of a CDN are higher uptime, higher performance, higher capacity and professional management and integration features. StreamZilla also offers a advanced web dashboard to manage your content and view professional statistics.

Note that some streaming providers claim to be a CDN but in reality have a basic infrastructure with shared, dedicated or clustered streaming servers. Some streaming providers actually license our technologies white labelled.

What is the difference between regular CDN's and StreamZilla?

StreamZilla is a advanced CDN. Regular CDN's use basic caching and DNS technologies while StreamZilla is powered by advanced CDN software that allows us to be more flexible, offer true integrated delivery support and many advanced management and reporting features in a user friendly web interface.

Some CDN's claim that they offer streaming support but only offer http progressive download. Other CDN's claim to offer streaming support but 90% of their servers are plain web servers. Their infrastructure has many idle, power hungry servers while StreamZilla has a efficient, environmentally friendly CDN architecture that scales on-demand. You can read more about our advantages in the Technologies section of the website.

Another benefit is that regular CDN's are not transparent while StreamZilla is a e-commerce CDN.

Do you support P2P?

StreamZilla is a premium CDN: we offer quality. P2P solutions may claim to be able to deliver large volumes at low costs, but in reality the costs are moved to the network owners, who are confronted with higher network loads compared to downloading or streaming. We do not exclude P2P support for the future, but todays P2P solutions do not meet our quality standards for performance, quality of service and manageability.

Do you support multicasting?

Our media servers and infrastructure support multicasting for live Windows Media streaming and for live RTSP H.264, AAC, MOV, MP4 and 3GP streaming. The problem with multicasting is that 99 percent of the broadband access providers routers and switches do not support or block the multicast streams. Another issue is that many home, office and school equipment (internet routers, modems, WiFi hubs, firewalls etcetera) do not support or block multicasting. Effectively this means that although we can offer multicasting, end users will not be able to connect to the streams.

Do you support IPv6?

Our CDN management and media delivery servers and infrastructure can support IPv6. Not all delivery services (Darwin Streaming Server for instance) have been tested for IPv6 support. Our geographical redirection engine does not support IPv6 IP address recognition at this moment.

Your website is beautiful, do we pay for all this marketing?

Thank you for the compliments. We have developed the website, it's design and information entirely in-house. We hope it reflects our passion for our jobs and the industry, and the quality level we stand for. If you read our website well, you will see that there is hardly any marketing-speak: everything is to the point and transparently explains our service. Yes it is enthusiastic. Because that is what we are. So no, you don't pay for heavy marketing. Thanks to this website we cut costs on marketing, sales and support. The website is an important part of the StreamZilla experience and actually keeps the operational costs down.

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