True Streaming

All protocols and formats

As a true premium CDN, StreamZilla offers support for all popular media services, protocols, formats and media players out there, using market leading, premium delivery technologies.

 

Some CDNs offer proprietary semi-streaming services that are not 100% compliant with all the various streaming protocols out there. They may lock you into a limited set of clients. Are you planning to deliver content on the web? Mobile? Over-The-Top? Don't be fooled by low-cost fake (HTTP based) streaming solutions.

 

True streaming has many advantages over http progressive download or proprietary (HTTP) streaming solutions. Some benefits: with true streaming, you save on bandwidth. True streaming offers much better stream quality control. True streaming better reports content usage. True streaming is a many-years, robust, and proven technology. True streaming offers better compliancy with encoders, players and workflow systems. True streaming better limits unwanted access to your precious content. Many mobile and set top box clients can only accept true stream protocols and need guaranteed compliancy.

 

Because we enabled HTTP tunneling for all true streaming protocols on port 80, you can get through virtually any firewall with RTSP, MMS and RTMP streams. You have the freedom to choose which services, protocols and ports you use.

 

Do you want to deliver non-streaming content or progressive downloads? No worries: we have built in support for delivery of any file type and static object via powerful, market leading HTTP web delivery services. And of course we offer full support for the latest Apple HTTP (iPhone) streaming and Microsoft Smooth Streaming technologies.

 

Don't lock yourself into a single delivery technology: choose StreamZilla for premium delivery, maximum freedom and maximum market reach!

 

 

Streaming Formats

 

Windows Media Services 2008

100% compliant, advanced true live and VOD streaming to Windows Media and Silverlight compliant clients.

 

Windows Media Services 2008 is an industrial-strength platform for streaming live or on-demand audio and video content. We run tuned Windows Media Services 2008 on Windows 2008 Enterprise servers, for maximum performance and maximum bursting. With this service, you can stream on-demand WMA, WMV, ASF files via RTSP/MMS (HTTP tunneling) to any Windows Media and Silverlight compliant client. Windows Media technologies and Silverlight are one of the most popular formats on the web and for IPTV services. Stream HD content. The VC1 codec is even adopted by Blu-Ray. If you want scalability and reliability, Windows Media Streaming is the best choice.

 

Wowza Media Server 2

Robust and advanced, true live and on-demand streaming solution to stream to Adobe Flash compliant clients.

 

Wowza Media Server is declared the #1 choice for Flash streaming by industry experts. The software offers high performance and extremely stable support for RTMP (Adobe's Flash streaming protocol), RTMPE (encrypted), RTMPT (to get through firewalls) delivery of popular file formats (MP4, H.264, AAC, 3GP, FLV) to Adobe Flash compliant clients. StreamZilla was one of the first CDNs to fully adopt the Wowza Media Server. A benefit of Wowza Media Server Pro is that you can also use RTP encoders to stream H.264/AAC to Flash clients, even in HD quality.


QuickTime (Darwin) Streaming Server

Industrial, robust server for true mobile, IPTV, H.264 and QuickTime streaming. Stream to any RTSP compliant mobile phone, set top box and web client.

 

RTSP is the standard protocol for true streaming for IPTV, Over-The-Top, 3GPP streaming and H.264/AAC streaming. The 3GPP mobile streaming standardization body has stated that RTSP is mandatory for mobile VOD and live streaming. StreamZilla is one of the few CDNs that has deployed Apple's Darwin Streaming Server on all servers in the CDN: most CDNs limit their number of DSS servers. That makes StreamZilla the ideal CDN for mobile and set top box delivery. By enabling HTTP tunneling we can get through virtually any firewall out there. We have tuned DSS for optimal High Def delivery AND for optimal 3G streaming to mobile clients.


Streaming Formats


HTTP streaming

Fully integrated, Apple and Microsoft compliant HTTP streaming support.

StreamZilla has an all formats, all protocols policy. Therefore we are proud that we also fully support the latest HTTP streaming technologies from Apple and Microsoft. The benefit of Apple's and Microsofts' HTTP streaming technologies over proprietary CDN HTTP streaming technologies is that the latter are not widely adopted standards and will never be. 

 


Apple HTTP streaming

StreamZilla offers support for Apple's HTTP streaming, both for live and VOD streaming. Stream live and VOD to iPhones, iPads, QuickTime X and Apple HTTP compliant clients and devices. The good news is that you don't have to replace your encoders, or have to chunk up your streams: use your existing H.264+AAC files and live streams, we auto re-package your content on the fly. All you have to do is generate an embed code for Apple HTTP streaming compliant devices and publish the video. 

Microsoft Smooth Streaming

StreamZilla offers integrated support for Microsoft Smooth Streaming, both for live and VOD streaming. Stream live and VOD to Silverlight and compliant clients and devices. The good news is that you don't have to replace your encoders, or have to chunk up your streams: use your existing H.264+AAC files and live streams, we auto re-package your content on the fly. All you have to do is generate an embed code for Smooth streaming compliant devices and publish the video. 


Icecast Server

Robust, powerful radio streaming technology for modern and open codecs.

 

Icecast Server is the defacto standard for radio streaming. Many PC, set top box and mobile clients support the HTTP icecast protocols and codecs. Set up live streams in AAC, OGG, MP3 audio and Theora video. 


HTTP file delivery

StreamZilla offers fully integrated support for HTTP file delivery, including progressive downloads for media assets and advanced progressive download support for FLV and MP4 assets.


Apache

Apache is the world's leading web server. StreamZilla offers highly tuned Apache servers for accelerated HTTP delivery of any static object.

Upload video, audio, media, documents, applications, web pages, images, scripts. Just upload and we deliver via HTTP to any HTTP compliant client. We don't use caching servers, so every delivery node in our CDN runs the same optimized Apache server.

Lighttpd

Lighttpd is a serious alternative for Apache. StreamZilla offers highly tuned Lighttpd servers for accelerated HTTP delivery of any static object.

Lighttpd is optimized for media file delivery and offers advanced skip features for FLV and MP4 progressive downloads. Viewers can click beyond the downloaded part in the video player time-bar and the client and server will communicate to start downloading from that point.


 
     
     
 

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