Limelight Video Delivery

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In a digital world with no patience for slow or unreliable digital experiences, the processing and delivery of your digital assets have to be fast, reliable, and secure. Limelight's private global content delivery network (CDN) has the capacity, coverage, and performance to meet the most demanding content delivery challenges.

Our content delivery network features one of the highest cache hit ratios in the industry, solid-state drive (SSD) storage, hundreds of Points of Presence strategically enabled around the world. We provide 80+ Tbps capacity and a 100GbE private fiber backbone that is connected to more than 1,000 ISP and last-mile networks, ensuring a better experience for your customers.

Publish » Linear Signal Distribution » Distribution & Re-distribution » Edge devices »

Limelight Content Delivery Services ensure your content is optimized and delivered with the lowest latency, best reliability, and highest origin offload. These services are part of the Limelight Orchestrate Platform, which integrates our massive global private infrastructure, advanced content delivery capabilities, and support services.

By positioning website content in edge caches, leveraging last mile acceleration, customizing requests and responses, and ensuring appropriate and secure access, Limelight ensures content can be quickly delivered, anywhere, anytime, with the quality of experience your audience expects.

Limelight Content Delivery Services ensure your content is optimized and delivered with the lowest latency, best reliability, and highest origin offload. These services are part of the Limelight Orchestrate Platform, which integrates our massive global private infrastructure, advanced content delivery capabilities, and support services.

By positioning website content in edge caches, leveraging last mile acceleration, customizing requests and responses, and ensuring appropriate and secure access, Limelight ensures content can be quickly delivered, anywhere, anytime, with the quality of experience your audience expects.

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The edge is the new cloud. Analysts project that more and more computing will move to the network edge, offering the potential to reduce latency, transit costs, and centralized server load. For many media and entertainment use cases, these advantages translate to improved user experience and enable new applications.

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EdgeFunctions simplifies development and reduces time to production for streaming video and content delivery use cases.

Limelight EdgeFunctions is a serverless compute platform that automatically makes your code available to many edge locations around the world, executes at the network edge close to your users to ensure the lowest latency, and scales to meet demand. EdgeFunctions is ideal for customers needing to implement streaming video and content delivery use cases such as personalized streaming, access control, dynamic ad insertion, A/B testing, image manipulation, and more. It is tightly integrated with one of the world’s highest-performing video and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). EdgeFunctions gives developers tools to boost performance, customize workflows, and scale rapidly while only paying for resources used.

With EdgeFunctions, developers are able to run their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, simplifying development, and reducing time to production. It enables developers to concentrate on what they are good at: coding!

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Limelight provides a proven workflow with high performance and availability for worry-free distribution. Limelight’s solution for File Distribution keeps your customers satisfied with no interruption to their publication, software, gaming, or device-update services. We allow ingest from any location, with automatic replication and global caching. File delivery starts in milliseconds using Limelight’s high-speed global private network. You can customize your interface with open or proprietary download managers.

Publish » Linear Signal Distribution » Distribution & Re-distribution » Edge devices »

Limelight Live Push Ingest puts the control of origin bandwidth in the hands of content providers, so you can reduce costs related to ingesting video to the Limelight CDN. You can manage your own encoding and chunking process, with the potential of lowering latency compared to Pull workflows. By Pushing your content to a specialized ingest server that is peered directly to Limelight’s CDN, you can eliminate latency inducing steps in your live video production. Limelight Live Push’s direct integration with the Limelight CDN also enables your live events to scale massively with no threat of overloading your content production or origin servers.

Publish » Linear Signal Distribution » Distribution & Re-distribution » Encoding and multiplexing for distribution and re-distribution »

Limelight Multi-device Media Delivery (MMD) Live is a powerful cloud-based feature for transcoding live video streams into multiple bitrates, and on-the-fly transmuxing into different formats, enabling a live event to be recorded for later playback. MMD Live reduces workflow complexity while meeting the demands of audiences for the highest quality video viewing experience on their choice of devices. This functionality allows users to stream live events to smart TVs, desktops, mobile screens, and set-top-boxes. MMD Live is integrated with the global Limelight Orchestrate Platform to deliver broadcast-quality live video to connected devices.

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The Limelight Multi-device Media Delivery (MMD) On-Demand (OD) solution is a powerful cloud-based set of video delivery services for automatically converting video content into different formats, which reduces workflow complexity and storage costs, while meeting the demands of device diversity. MMD OD is integrated with Limelight’s global Orchestrate Platform to deliver broadcast-quality video to all connected devices worldwide.

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Limelight Origin Storage Services is an intelligent solution for driving a great user experience through Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Simplify your workflow with ingest automation, high availability, global scale, and multi-CDN support, all at an excellent value. Keep your audience engaged with fast, reliable delivery of video-on-demand, file distribution, web acceleration, gaming, or e-commerce content.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Intra-Facility Connectivity » Video-over-internet »

Limelight's realtime, live and on-demand video delivery services and online video platform integrate Limelight's massive global private network with advanced video delivery and management capabilities. We help you get your video content to virtually any device, anywhere in the world at high quality and with the lowest rebuffer rates in the industry.

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Limelight Video Platform is the fastest and most intuitive way to manage and distribute online video to media devices everywhere. Engage web audiences with immersive video content. Track performance and collect valuable metrics from your viewers. The power and simplicity of Limelight Video Platform lets you manage, publish, syndicate, measure, and monetize web video with ease. Upload your source file and our transcoding services automatically handle video format conversions and publishing steps required for optimized viewing on any device, anywhere. The video platform is integrated with the global Orchestrate Platform to deliver the high-quality viewing experience audiences expect.

Publish » Linear Signal Distribution » Distribution & Re-distribution » Edge devices »

Limelight Realtime Streaming delivers live video from anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world, with less than one second of latency. The solution provides low-latency live streaming by utilizing the open and scalable industry-standard WebRTC technology and UDP data transfer protocol, so video streams don’t need to be segmented and buffered like with traditional HTTP streaming formats such as HLS and MPEG-DASH.

Limelight Realtime Streaming features adaptive bitrate streaming for the highest possible picture quality for each viewer, even over changing network conditions. Limelight’s global private network provides the capacity, reach, and connectivity to ensure a high-quality, realtime viewing experience for audiences everywhere.

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MediaKind's Cygnus Contribution solution enables live events to be captured reliably, cost effectively, with the highest quality and lowest latency. It supports UHD HDR, the latest IP standards, and delivers remote/ at-home production applications.

This media processing and delivery solution addresses a number of different live content contribution use cases and applications such as remote / at-home production with distinct values enabling content providers/owners, Broadcasters and TV Operators to maximize their investment whilst maintaining the quality and low latencies required for professional media delivery.

 

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Intra-Facility Connectivity » Video-over-internet »

Aperi's Network Address Translation & Firewall app (“NAT app”) is an FPGA-based application designed for the microserver platform, and is available from the Aperi
App Store. Providing seamless inbound and outbound re-routing of RTP streams within your network infrastructure, NAT app also includes RTP stream health monitoring, which will automatically shut down streams that deviate from a specified policy. Stream replication allows for two distinct output streams with independent IP addresses, ports, and VLANs. Failover can merge multiple source streams, selecting the highest quality single stream and automatically switching to a perfect replication should the
original stream degrade in quality or deviate from policy. The supports the SMPTE 2022 standard for transporting both compressed (2022-2) and uncompressed (2022-6) media flows via IP. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route varying numbers of compressed (2022-2) streams depending on size, and up to 6 uncompressed (2022-6) streams per SFP port. It also provides support for the SMPTE 2110 standard, and can route video (2110-20), audio (2110-30), and ancillary data (2110-40) flows independently through networks. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route up to 64 independent media flows per port. It offers stream duplication for media flows via SFP, and A/B failover for flows outputting through SFPs.

Technical Information
Firewall
 4-layer inspection for basic ACL:
 Ethernet: mac.dst, mac.src, vlan, vlanid
 IP: ip.dst, ip.src
 UDP: udp.dst, udp.src
 RTP: rtp.src
 Additional inspection of RTP payloads for ACL
 Ensure 2022-2 payloads conform to transport stream structure and have correct packet count
 Ensure 2022-6 payloads include RTP header extension, SDI types in headers match configured values, and detect if frame size of encapsulated SDI matches configured value
 Ensure presence of RFC4175 payload header and indicated frame size matches configured values; ensure encapsulated raster video frame size matches configured value
Address Translation
 4-layer packet header rewrite enforces complete re-addressing of every packet before egress
 All unicast/multicast mappings are supported
 For multicast flows, flood, IGMPv2 and v3 are supported
Monitoring and Stats
 Ingress statistics include:
 Ethernet: Frames received, FCS errors, packet rate, and total average bandwidth
 Firewall-overall & firewall-per-flow counts total packets dropped, accepted, average speed and bandwidth
 RTP flow shows RTP type (and payload header if applicable), sequence number, transport stream checking, and PDV/inter packet arrival time
 For 2022-2, shows TS packets per payload, TS lock, TS rate, and payload alignment
 For 2022-6, shows SDI type indicated by payload header versus one detected by line/sample counting, and SDI TRS lock and errors
 For RFC4175, shows video raster type indicated by payload header versus type detected by line/sample counting
 Egress statistics show total packet count, packet speed, and average rate per flow and for Ethernet
Hitless Merge
 Configurable PDV buffer depth
 Creates a new regenerated hitless transport with new addressing
 Counts total number of recovered and unrecoverable packets, along with the differential delay between input flows

Publish » Content Protection » Content Protection & Encryption » CAS, encryption, DRM »

The X Platform is a high-capacity, versatile, ultra-low latency platform for high-speed video networking, enhanced IP security and advanced compression for the remote production, contribution and distribution markets.

Publish » Non-Linear Publishing » Non-Linear Publishing Systems » Cable/IPTV VOD servers and systems »

Appear’s NEO Series enables software-powered video compression for the delivery of live media experiences. Appear’s software-powered video compression solutions deliver live and file software based video compression for OTT, IPTV and VOD.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Intra-Facility Connectivity » Video-over-internet »

Designed by broadcasters for broadcasters, LiveU Matrix is an essential tool that works for the newsroom; making live content management simple and affordable. Combining powerful front-end with a reliable IP cloud-based transport layer, LiveU Matrix seamlessly integrates into daily workflows, allowing news teams to share live feeds with multiple internal and cross-organizational end-points.

LiveU Matrix offers cost-effective and reliable live content distribution over the public internet with significant cost savings compared to traditional contribution and distribution methods. Only minimal infrastructure is required to set up new content sources and destinations – allowing you to replace SAT dishes and IRDs with backpacks, rack-mount encoders and servers.

The dynamic cloud platform makes it simple and cost-effective to curate content through one interface. Users can easily search, filter, preview, and distribute live feeds to one station, multiple stations, or thousands of end points within their entire network. The flexible interface can also be customized based on the user’s role. LiveU Matrix gives full visibility into all feeds available and puts the broadcaster/production crew in the driver’s seat to manage and send content anywhere.

Used by tier 1 broadcasters and leading content creators worldwide, Matrix has been built from the ground up to support well-established content sharing models with intuitive, broadcaster-oriented modes of operation. These include large affiliate networks or press agencies, media/ownership groups, national broadcasters as well as smaller local loop or event pools, and local/global content syndicators. Major news broadcasters including CBS, CNN, Cox Media Group, Fox Sports, Meredith Corporation, Quincy Media, and Sinclair Broadcast Group are curating their content with LiveU Matrix. During the COVID-19 pandemic, governors in several US states are also using LiveU Matrix to deliver their daily live briefings directly to stations and networks from remote locations.

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Zixi provides a cloud based and on-premise Software-Defined Video Platform that enables reliable broadcast-quality video delivery over any IP network, any protocol, any cloud provider and any edge device. The company offers technologies for broadcasters, enterprises, over-the-top video providers, and mobile service providers around the world.  The Zixi Platform makes it easy and economical for media companies to source, manage, localize, and distribute live events and 24/7 live linear channels in broadcast QoS, securely and at scale, using any form of IP network or Hybrid IP environments. Zixi provides enhanced control in large complex networks with ZEN Master, a live video orchestration and telemetry control plane  that provides visual tools to configure, orchestrate, and monitor live broadcast channels and events across industry protocols.  Over 10+ years, the Zixi Enabled Network (ZEN) has grown to over 170 OEM and service providers and serves well over 600 customers representing most of the top media brands around the world with 10,000+ channels delivered daily.

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Livery offers high quality, low latency live streaming-as-a-service. Using ULL-CMAF, it’s more affordable and scalable than WebRTC. And it includes with integrated, synchronised and expandable interactive features as standard. This makes Livery an easy to use, end-to-end solution for any professional looking to make their live video bigger, better and more profitable.

Video features:

• CMAF Ultra Low Latency (<3 seconds)


• End-to-end: cloud & on-prem encoder, CDN & player


• Optimal quality and scalability, powered by the world’s biggest CDN


• Sync that works end-to-end across all devices or connections (3G-5G, Wifi, …)


• Data efficient, ABR, high quality


• Players and SDKs for iOS, Android & Web with integrated interactive layer


• Integrates in any RTMP or SRT workflow

Interactive features:

• Create your a custom interactive layer or use Livery’s standard features at any time:


• Core: Countdown, announcement, rating, vote/poll, trivia, sentiment


• Communication: Chat, Q&A


• E-commerce / shoppable video: Discover, configure, purchase, product rating


• Gamification: Prediction, estimation, quiz game, leaderboard

Integration & operations features:

• Cloud based, turn-key solution


• SDK for iOS, Android & Web


• User authentication


• Powerful analytics


• Presenter view with data visualization and live feedback


• Configurable templates, texts and localization options


• Easy to use, web-based management system (CMS)


• Transparent, usage-based pricing, no upfront costs, cancel any time

 

Publish » Linear Signal Distribution » Distribution & Re-distribution » Edge devices »

Limelight Live Push Ingest puts the control of origin bandwidth in the hands of content providers, so you can reduce costs related to ingesting video to the Limelight CDN. You can manage your own encoding and chunking process, with the potential of lowering latency compared to Pull workflows. By Pushing your content to a specialized ingest server that is peered directly to Limelight’s CDN, you can eliminate latency inducing steps in your live video production. Limelight Live Push’s direct integration with the Limelight CDN also enables your live events to scale massively with no threat of overloading your content production or origin servers.

Connect » Real-Time Signal Transfer » Intra-Facility Connectivity » Video-over-internet »

Limelight's realtime, live and on-demand video delivery services and online video platform integrate Limelight's massive global private network with advanced video delivery and management capabilities. We help you get your video content to virtually any device, anywhere in the world at high quality and with the lowest rebuffer rates in the industry.