[SatNews] At the 2012 NAB Show, Wowza will display their award-winning new software....

....and groundbreaking AddOns, which transform this product from a media server into a robust streaming media platform. Attendees can see...

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Wowza Media Server 3—A major milestone in the evolution of media streaming, Wowza Media Server® 3 is the next generation of Wowza's award-winning software platform that provides a single extensible foundation and value-added components for "Any Screen Done Right™" media delivery. The software offers the broadest any-screen coverage for Flash®- and Silverlight®-capable computers, tablets, phones, set-top boxes, media players, and game consoles; Apple® iPhone®/iPad® and other HLS-capable devices such as Apple TV® with AirPlay®; Android™ devices; Roku® media players; and Internet-connected TVs including Samsung® Smart TV™ and Google TV™-powered sets. The Wowza Media Server 3 platform advances media streaming to a new level of simplicity and cost-effectiveness with a variety of AddOn components that help organizations of any size to deliver live and on-demand content efficiently. With Wowza Media Server 3, formerly hard-to-implement features such as adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming, time-shifted playback, and integrated rights management are made simple and cost-effective. Wowza Media Server 3 is the ideal media platform for revenue-generating services for an ever-growing number of destinations

Wowza Media Server 3 AddOns—These products enhance a broadcaster's ability to deliver, transform, enhance, protect, integrate, and manage their media streaming. With AddOns, the media server becomes a full-fledged streaming media infrastructure that helps broadcasters drive revenue-generating services or simplify their workflows. Wowza will demonstrate these AddOns at the 2012 NAB Show:

• Wowza Transcoder™ AddOn transforms incoming live streams from encoders, IP cameras, IPTV headends, and other live sources to H.264 for delivery everywhere
• Wowza nDVR™ AddOn stores content in a normalized format as a single live stream cache that enables users to deliver time-shifted playout experience to viewers — on PCs, tablets, smartphones, and TVs
• Wowza DRM™ AddOn facilitates integration with various digital rights management platforms to deliver on-the-fly encryption for live and video-on-demand content to any screen

In addition to the premium AddOns above, there is an extensive suite of free components that provides users with high-value tools to better manage and protect content, enhance the viewer experience, and easily integrate Wowza Media Server software in their environments.