# Difference between origin-edge and target streams

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/difference-between-origin-edge-and-target-streams/51320
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/difference-between-origin-edge-and-target-streams/51320 "2018-05-15T15:42:59Z")
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### Author: ![Luis\_Molina\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecd19e/32.png) [@Luis\_Molina\_Martinez](https://community.wowza.com/u/Luis_Molina_Martinez)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/difference-between-origin-edge-and-target-streams/51320/1 "2018-05-15T15:42:59Z")

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Hi, I have a misunderstanding with Origin-Edge configuration, I mean:

I created a Origin Edge configuration like appears in the tutorials and I was expecting to see the same streams that I have in Origin to appear on Edge configuration but nothing appears

Then I saw the target stream option and I tried it and then it worked when I put the live app as the destination, it doesn’t work with the liveEdge app that I configured, so

1. If I want to use Origin-Edge, had I to setup target streams? shouldn’t work without target streams?

2. why is not working the target stream with liveEdge app? (it says something about authentication but I set all the security to none)

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### Author: ![Alex\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Alex\_C](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_C)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2018, 5:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/difference-between-origin-edge-and-target-streams/51320/2 "2018-05-20T05:36:33Z")

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Hello @Luis Molina Martinez,

Thanks for using Wowza community forums.

Details on how Origin - Edge relationship works is outlined here:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/scaling-with-wowza-live-stream-repeater](https://www.wowza.com/docs/scaling-with-wowza-live-stream-repeater)

If you setup the Origin and Edge then you can use the following as a test:

Publish a stream to your origin application called myStream.

Test from the Wowza origin server  
Server: rtmp://[wowza-origin-address]:1935/liveorigin  
Stream: myStream

Test from the Wowza edge server  
Server: rtmp://[wowza-edge-address]:1935/liveedge  
Stream: myStream

Once you request playback of myStream from liveedge then the stream will become available on the Edge.

Please review the origin edge setup here:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/How-to-configure-a-live-stream-repeater](https://www.wowza.com/docs/How-to-configure-a-live-stream-repeater)

Regards,

Alex C

Wowza Support