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Alternative to FMS

Saw Wowza Media Systems‘ offering today – an alternative to Flash Media Server. It looks good, comes much cheaper ($5000 for unlimited connections), supports server side scripting and remote shared objects, and runs on multiple platforms. Is free for 10 connections. But looking at the tech details, it may be a memory / CPU hogger. Need to try it out to be sure. Their FAQ mention:

…600 simultaneous connections randomly accessing 400 files; Wowza Media Server delivered 300 Mbps throughput. This required a maximum 300 MB of memory and 18% CPU utilization…

Though these were done on some kick ass hardware! I think it’s worth checking out. This goes my list of items to review!

We have also been toying with red5 for about a month now. Found that to be good too. I am interested to find out if someone has done comparison between all these options!

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  1. Definitely try it out. Actually, Wowza server uses memory/CPU very efficiently. The bottleneck is typically the disc I/O. The test example you’ve sited is for video on demand on an average hardware with just 2 hard drives in a RAID 0 config. You can push more than 5x connections from the same hardware with more discs in a RAID.

    Let me know if we need to make this clearer on our web site.

    Wowza Alex (yes, I’m one of them)

  2. Alex,

    First of all, congratulations for having product having same features (not all) like FMS.

    I visited your website and tried to catch all the product information about your technical specifications and all.

    It would be good, if you can provide feature matrix comparison between FMS and WMS with all the features, so developers like me or solution providers or even our clients can make spot decision while they are buying the media server.

    Good luck once again.