Agency.com: Using Wowza for interactive Flash game

Agency.com is an advertising agency which devised an interactive campaign for the new Fibernet product of telecommunications company Telenet. The campaign is built around an online interactive game, which gives 1000 Telenet customers the opportunity to win one year Fibernet for free. The game allows a multitude of concurrent users to track the movements of five (virtual) Telenet installer vans. A user can win the game by grabbing a yellow van. When a player achieves this, the van turns red again and heads towards the winner's home. Users can follow the real-time status of all vans thanks to a Flash client application, which receives constant updates in the form of broadcasts from a Wowza Media Server.

Agency.com contacted Rambla to setup, configure and tune a dedicated Wowza server and assist them in developing a custom Java module for Wowza, containing some of the inner game logic. Our Wowza specialists also helped to assure the quality of the application. They implemented and executed custom stress-tests to make sure that the server module was able to handle the load caused by a large number of simultaneous connections. Finally, our engineers take care of administering the dedicated server throughout the whole campaign period and provide monitoring services during the actual game hours.