Newtek and Wowza Media systems have teamed up to create MediaDS, a hardware-software platform for realtime encoding and a live streaming video delivery mechanism. First teased at IBC2016, MediaDS is touted as an industry first, enabling among other features the ability for content creators to launch multichannel distribution networks from their own production venues and then deliver directly to viewers.

The MediaDS system leverages Wowza’s streaming technologies and server network to utilize the hardware as a media server and realtime encoder to stream to external sources including Facebook Live, Microsoft Azure, Wowza CDB, YouTube and Wowza Streaming cloud, as well as having the ability to create custom RTMP configurations. It optimizes content for user devices, ranging from smartphones to computer browsers (with the ability to embed a Wowza player in a web page)…[continue reading on RedSharkNews]