# Centralized solution for geo, IP and connections restriction for Wowza **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo\ **Created:** [September 6, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/centralized-solution-for-geo-ip-and-connections-restriction-for-wowza/37587 "2012-09-06T22:52:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yury\_Udovichenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5e925/32.png) [@Yury\_Udovichenko](https://community.wowza.com/u/Yury_Udovichenko)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/centralized-solution-for-geo-ip-and-connections-restriction-for-wowza/37587/1 "2012-09-06T22:52:42Z")
Greetings, [WMSPanel](https://wmspanel.com/), a service form Wowza partners’ ecosystem, would like to present a feature set that allows controlling access to your streaming assets. WMSPanel is a web service that gives capabilities for centralized reporting and control of your Wowza instances. It works both in Wowza 2 and Wowza 3. Our WMSAuth functionality gives ability to do the following: - Limit simultaneous connections count. Set up a limit and no connections will be established on top of that. - Limit [total bandwidth](http://blog.wmspanel.com/2013/05/wowza-bandwidth-limitation.html) for any entity from server to stream. - Define the countries where your visitors are from. We use industry favorite MaxMind GeoIP which is updated automatically from our servers. - Lock the IP ranges of your visitors. If you’re willing to restrict some Internet locations from access, you can created IP ranges describing them and deny access - Allow and deny rules are used for geo and IP ranges. - Make links hot-linking re-publishing protection. This is done via enhancing your server side scripts and defining access permissions . - Hot-linking protection applies to all Wowza client types, including Cupertino (HLS). - Servers; - Virtual hosts; - Applications; - Application instances; - Streams.