Wowza Media Systems, a software company solely focused on media servers, announced the availability of Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition, featuring friction-free monthly subscription licensing for its industrial-strength media server that makes it both painless and irresistibly cost-effective for any CDN, streaming service or hosting provider to offer lucrative Flash media streaming services to their customers.Wowza Media Server Pro, recently declared the #1 media server choice by the readers of Streaming Media Magazine, now counts more than 14,000 global licensees worldwide, including a rapidly growing number of service providers such as T-Systems (Deutsche Telecom), Interoute, Avacast, SimpleCDN, StreamUK, Nacamar, Advection.NET, StreamZilla, and more.
Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition offers service providers the most full-featured version of Wowza Pro and a risk-free, flexible model for managing their licensing costs according to their customers' streaming demands.
Key Benefits:
* No upfront financial commitment
* No long-term contracts
* No minimum number of server instances
* No per-GB fees -- just low fixed per-server monthly fee that declines in volume
* No cost for future software upgrades
* Flexible capacity and cost management -- add/delete servers as needed and only
pay for servers used
In a recent daily briefing, Jim Davis, Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research, wrote that Wowza's subscription model "is going to help streaming service providers and hosting companies by enabling them to keep a lid on capital expenditures." He added, "They can pass these cost savings on, enabling them to compete for customers that might not otherwise bother to buy CDN services."
Phil Koblence, VP, Operations, New York Internet, a quality leader in Data Center services, echoed that sentiment, "We chose Wowza Pro Subscription Edition because it enabled us to increase our capacity in nearly real time and offer clients the ability to host their streaming solutions without a large initial licensing fee. Additionally, this new model allows us to benefit from Wowza's superb software and efficiently roll it into our existing hosting offerings."
