Next week I am going to investigate Wowza Media Server Pro Unlimited for Amazon EC2 (beta) and how it stacks up to Adobe's FMIS on the EC2 instances.
For 2008, FMIS did a good job streaming out our live T&S along with video. FMIS has a solid package that is easy to deploy in a small or large scale environment. The Origin/Edge configuration worked smoothly. There were a few odd instances on the edges from time to time but overall it did the job.
The reason we looking to move away from FMIS is because of price. FMIS is $4,500 per license. This is a good price if you use one server consistently. The price adds up quickly when you have to stream out tens of thousands of concurrent streams.
Adobe doesn't have an EC2 pay model. It makes no sense why not because most live events are large and don't happen daily. Using a per server license model isn't cost effective for scalable live events. One of the huge advantages of Cloud Computing is scalability and Adobe currently doesn't take advantage of this.
Wowza has a model for the EC2 (http://www.wowzamedia.com/ec2.php). The real question will be how easily it is to port our FMS setup to Wowza. If it is relatively easy, I can see a lot of businesses looking at Wowza.
If anybody else has had success using Wowza on EC2, I would like to hear your comments.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Investigating Wowza and the Cloud
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Take a look at www.mogulus.com. They are a massive live streaming service that is using Wowza on EC2.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information. I will take a look at them.
ReplyDeleteDo you know roughly how many simultaneous streams they have peaked at?
Not really sure but take a look at their profile here: http://www.mogulus.com/info/about. Some very impressive mubers:
ReplyDelete- More than 85,000 signed up producers
- More than 120,000 channels launched
- More than 5.8 million unique viewers each month
- More than 400 million unique viewer minutes watched each month
Good information. Thanks
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