Case Study: Granicus achieves reliable, scalable high-performance government live streaming with Wowza Video

Granicus relies on Wowza Streaming Engine to connect citizens with government through high-performance live streaming

Granicus manages the world’s largest legislative content network—more than 5 million government media files with 99.98% uptime—but faces heavy demands: recording up to 1,500 hours of video per week, strict reliability requirements, minimal added infrastructure, and the need to scale delivery both inside local networks and to large external audiences.

To meet those challenges Granicus deployed Wowza Streaming Engine (with Transcoder and Amazon S3), using on‑premises instances with geographic routing for low latency and a CDN-backed system for external scale. Built‑in transcoding and Wowza APIs enable adaptive‑bitrate playback, time‑coded editing, traffic reporting, and easy provisioning. The result: reliable, professional-quality streaming for 63,000+ government users, cost savings and faster feature rollouts, and expansion into 15 additional business areas while keeping the platform future‑proof.

Granicus

Javier Muniz

CTO