The first of its kind, Niagara® GoStream is a portable, streaming encoding appliance designed to make capturing and streaming video a simple, easy to use process. This single channel encoder is designed to be used by the most novice of users and features 3 EZStream® buttons that allow users to select from pre-defined encoding profiles. The GoStream's appliance-like design and set-up to streaming can be achieved through the front panel and the EASE controls menus. Additionally,, with pre-defined encoding profiles the EASE control menu provides an intuitive, easy-to-use control menu system that allows users to access system status, setup IP network connections and even export video content to video storage devices and CDN's. The included SCX sofware features a new web-based user interface and supports encoding formats such as Windows®, RealVideo®, and Flash. GoStream also offers the capability to be powered by battery and wireless connectivity. This gives the user the ability to stream from the field for unwired streaming.