Build Your Own Streaming Live Video Service in the Cloud with VazztCaster

By Ashok Bindra
TMCnet Contributor

Streaming video solutions provider KenCast (News - Alert) has readied a new live video-on-the-move (VOTM) service called Vazzt VOTM service. It enables a user on the move, whether in a vehicle, in an aircraft, or on foot with a camera connected to a computer/laptop/netbook, to send live video streams and video files to a website that other viewers can access. According to KenCast, the new Vazzt VOTM service is a complete end-to-end solution.

In short, Vazzt VOTM provides the video encoding, network super pipe, and delivery capability. To get started with Vazzt VOTM service, you need three things added to your computer and Internet resources, said KenCast. These include:

--Wireless IP network service from a carrier (e.g., Sprint EvDO, Verizon EvDO, T-Mobile (News - Alert) UMTS, AT&T UMTS, Verizon LTE, Clear WiMAX, etc.) or from a wireless Internet service provider (WISP) or your own private network (WiFi, Bluetooth, wire access fiber, etc.) connected to the Internet.

--The Vazzt capture server software VazztCaster to send the IPTV (News - Alert) or file on each of your laptops/netbooks/computers.

--A Vazzt producer website to which you will send you live video streams from the VazztCaster. Vazzt VOTM service enables viewers anywhere on the worldwide Internet to play out the live streams you transmit, according to KenCast.

However, to get the VazztCaster program and your Vazzt Producer website, one must register at vazzt.com, said KenCast.

In essence, KenCast is offering a service to transmit live from your event to your website on the Internet Cloud, and then helps you to broadcast it to your viewers. For that, KenCast maintains a central Hub on the Cloud to which your live event is broadcast. And KenCast then makes it available to you and your viewers anyplace on the Internet worldwide, wired or wireless.

Today, at the Streaming Media East 2011 Show in New York City, KenCast introduced a new version of its VazztCaster software program for live streaming coverage of events to viewers worldwide. VazztCaster now includes E-Commerce features like Pay-Per-View and paid Subscriptions.

Consequently, with prompts at www.vazzt.com, the user can sign up for personal business PayPal (News - Alert) account and link it to Vazzt to create Pay Channels. And, thereby, announce your pay events on your Pay Channels. KenCast said that viewers pay by credit card into your PayPal account and Vazzt charges your PayPal account, after the event, for the live streams delivered to your viewers.

Hence, if you have a camcorder and a laptop with one or more carrier data services, you can build a global streaming live video business, asserted KenCast. VazztCaster can bond together multiple wireless and/or wire IP networks to get you enough bandwidth to do even HD video streaming. According to the company, registered Vazzt Producers get a Vazzt Producer website on the Vazzt Internet cloud at no cost. Your live video channels can be viewed directly at your Vazzt website, or by hyperlink from your own website, if you have one, added KenCast.

“The VazztCaster and associated Vazzt cloud enable producers with a Portable Production Studio, from simple one-laptop setups to multi-camera with video switcher setups, to enjoy the immediate advantages of a world class collection, distribution, and E-Commerce infrastructure,” said Bill Steele, chairman & CEO of KenCast, in a statement. 

He added, “Portable Production Studios are now inexpensive and amazingly powerful. The bottleneck for the producer has been getting his edited live production from the event to the world and charging for it – and the VazztCaster provides the complete infrastructure he/she needs at very modest cost.”

In conclusion, stated KenCast, use the new VazztCaster to build a business covering sports, citizen journalism, worship services, civic events, trades show conferences, weddings, public safety, etc., with the fully mobile video capability now provided by 3G & 4G networks.

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