Alternative to FMS
nirav February 21st, 2007
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!