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[News] MistServer at CES 2015
Hello everyone,
First off, we'd like to wish you all happy holidays.
We'll start off the year by attending the CES 2015. We'll be sharing our stand with Intel® to show how MistServer performs on the Intel® Puma™. If you're interested in a demo or would like an appointment with the MistServer team please contact us at info@mistserver.com.
[News] MistServer at IBC2014
MistServer will exhibit at stand 14.K13. Stop by at any time for a free demo of our MistSteward. Want to make sure the right expert is available for your visist? Contact us Wish to visit us at the IBC but weren't able to get to a visitor pass? Register for free at IBC with our customer code: 18928
[News] Research Initiative Q2 Paper online now!
Hello everyone!
Last time we investigated if we were able to bridge the gap between HTTP servers and media servers.. The results were promising: MistServer behaved as we hoped, proving it has all the capabilities of media servers while keeping the performance of HTTP servers. The research initiative is our way to bring our concerns and views for the future to the public in a more committed way, and we plan to release quarterly updates to the initiative.
In our Q2 research paper we'll not only update our last results, but also add two extra media servers to the statistics and raw data. Additionally, there's a new test which explores whether current media servers are able to handle the sudden load surges that may occur when load-balancing media servers.
You can view a short summary of the results here, and if you are interested in the full paper you can download it here, or if you want to have the raw data you can find it here.
[News] MistServer 2.0 wins Best New Product of NAB 2014
Our performance measurements show that MistServer is at the efficiency of a webserver while it has all the functions of a dedicated server and is able to run on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a giant data server. View how our Research Initiative will challenge other media servers in performance as we update our results. If you have any questions or wish to contribute to our research please contact us. You can find the article on StreamingMedia here and of course you can watch the award ceremony and interview here.
[News] MistServer 2.0 Performance Metrics available!
On the request of many customers and out of our own curiosity we developed a methodology for measuring the performance of a media stream. We used this to compare MistServer with other commonly used media servers. Wowza represents the dedicated media servers with great capabilities and functionality, Nginx represents the web servers with efficiency and ease of use.
We have found that compared to other media servers we are able to handle bandwidth more efficient. Compared to both Wowza and Nginx, MistServer adapts to the user profile and makes sure to only send the data the user requests instead of the entire file. This means MistServer could save you up to 90% on bandwidth costs depending on user profile compared to most other media servers!
Furthermore, MistServer allows up to four times more concurrent viewers from one server compared to Wowza, saves at least 80% on your CPU usage and saves at least 75% on your memory usage. Compared to the efficient Nginx web server, MistServer performs near equal in concurrent viewers, CPU usage and memory costs.
We are proud to share these results as it places MistServer as the media server that combines the capabilities and functionality of a dedicated media server with the efficiency and ease of use of a web server and also shows MistServer has the most efficient way to handle bandwidth costs up to date! If you are interested in the summary of the test results please click here. If you are interested in the full test results you can download our white paper featuring the full test report here. We can imagine you would want to run these stress and performance tests on your own platform and compare the results and we are prepared to share our test software on request.
To sum it up:- MistServer saves you up to 90% on bandwidth compared to both Wowza and Nginx
- MistServer allows up to four times more concurrent viewers compared to Wowza
- MistServer saves you at least 80% in CPU usage compared to Wowza
- MistServer saves you at least 75% on your memory compared to Wowza
- MistServer has comparable results to Nginx on concurrent viewers, CPU and memory usage
[News] New MistServer website launched!
We are proud to announce the launch of our new website. Based on feedback of our community we improved the ease of use of the navigation. Also we added sections about our Research Initiative and the anticipated release of MistServer 2.0 (to be released in April).
Furthermore, the MistServer 2.0 contains a new management interface allowing you direct access to all the information on the website. Last but not least, we have improved our shop to be integrated with product information to improve ease of use.
[News] MistServer team available at the NAB Show 2014
The MistServer team will attend the NAB Show 2014 and is available for meetings. We will have a live demo with us featuring the performance of MistServer 2.0 and all added features!
If you are interested or wish to learn more, schedule a meeting. Especially if you want to discuss the technology challenge of the upcoming 3-18 months, making the streaming platforms ready for content delivery on per-viewer basis and personalized ad insertion.