Zixi Software-Defined Video Platform

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

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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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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

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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

 

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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.

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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.