# How does Wowza work in CDN?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-does-wowza-work-in-cdn/39707>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [June 19, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-does-wowza-work-in-cdn/39707 "2013-06-19T13:44:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mehrdad\_Armanpour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Mehrdad\_Armanpour](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mehrdad_Armanpour)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-does-wowza-work-in-cdn/39707/1 "2013-06-19T13:44:18Z")

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Hi guys.

I want to know more about architecture of Media servers in CDN and also how does Wowza work in CDN?

I mean shall I have a Wowza Media Server on every single edge node? Or can I have a single WMS in region and re-stream to every edge node?

And what about my content? Shall I have them on cache servers or what?

Thanks a lot.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-does-wowza-work-in-cdn/39707/2 "2013-06-19T11:55:23Z")

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An “edge server” has to be a Wowza server.

To scale live streaming use Live Stream Repeater (origin/edge):

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

To scale vod streaming use MediaCache, which allows you to store content on a web server that each MediaCache edge will cache from

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Lon\_Aquilon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Lon\_Aquilon](https://community.wowza.com/u/Lon_Aquilon)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-does-wowza-work-in-cdn/39707/3 "2016-02-05T08:57:22Z")

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> Hi guys.
> 
> I want to know more about architecture of Media servers in CDN and also how does Wowza work in CDN?
> 
> I mean shall I have a Wowza Media Server on every single edge node? Or can I have a single WMS in region and re-stream to every edge node?
> 
> And what about my content? Shall I have them on cache servers or what?
> 
> Thanks a lot.

I can’t told you anything about your Wowza questions, but here is good knoledge base about CDN [http://cdnsun.com/knowledgebase](http://cdnsun.com/knowledgebase). I think that you can find any general information there. All cdn companies works in one way, so this info is relevant.