# Wowza Origin with Akamai CDN for Smooth Streaming

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-with-akamai-cdn-for-smooth-streaming/38473>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 18, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-with-akamai-cdn-for-smooth-streaming/38473 "2013-03-18T22:16:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Osborne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@Brian\_Osborne](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brian_Osborne)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-with-akamai-cdn-for-smooth-streaming/38473/1 "2013-03-18T22:16:34Z")

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Akamai’s HD Network for Smooth Streaming On Demand supports three different methods for hosting the files on an origin server.

- Using Akamai’s Net Storage & Akamai IIS server (Akamai is the origin, you upload the files directly to them)

- Using your own web server (of any kind) and using an Akamai IIS “ghost” server that pulls from your origin

- Using your own IIS server

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-with-akamai-cdn-for-smooth-streaming/38473/2 "2013-03-20T13:51:59Z")

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Hi

Wowza is not a HTTP server and thus cant do the job of an IIS server.

Jason

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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:** [March 20, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-with-akamai-cdn-for-smooth-streaming/38473/3 "2013-03-20T14:02:10Z")

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At present, you would have to use MediaCache and a regulation web server for storage, e.g. IIS, etc., but I think that is a possible future feature, though I have no time frame.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Osborne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@Brian\_Osborne](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brian_Osborne)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 8:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-with-akamai-cdn-for-smooth-streaming/38473/4 "2013-03-20T08:57:12Z")

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It responds to HTTP GET requests with manifests and chunks, how is it not an HTTP server? I understand it’s not the same as something like nginx or apache, but it’s serving files out like they would.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Osborne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@Brian\_Osborne](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brian_Osborne)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 9:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-origin-with-akamai-cdn-for-smooth-streaming/38473/5 "2013-03-20T09:50:49Z")

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Hmm, not sure how MediaCache would help me here. I’m just trying to get it working at all at the moment, where the files are stored on the Wowza server itself. Akamai should handle all of the “cacheing”. However I’m having trouble getting it working