Restriction of streaming by some criteria is an often required feature in media industry. This is why we're often asked about this type of control capability. So here it
WMSAuth, a new centralized way of controlling your Wowza Streaming Engine and
Nimble Streamer restrictions.
What does WMSPanel allow to restrict?
- Simultaneous connections count;
- Maximum bandwidth allowed;
- Limit the countries where your visitors are from;
- Lock the IP ranges of your visitors;
- Make links re-publishing protection;
- Both allow and deny rules for geo and IP ranges may be applied.
WMSAuth is also an entry and setup point for
Pay-per-view framework for Wowza.
These restrictions may be applied to any of those Wowza entities:
- Server;
- Virtual host;
- Application;
- Application instance;
- Stream.
Geo location updates are automatically downloaded from WMSPanel and your system administrator may forget about maintenance - we handle it.
Let's see how those things map together. Here's a brief model of our authentication rules.
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| WMSAuth groups model (click to zoom) |
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| Pay-per-view framework. |
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| Geo-location restriction flowchart. |
So let's see how it works.
