Zixi, the industry leader for reliable, live broadcast-quality video over IP networks and provider of the award-winning Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP®), today announced a partnership with DICE Verse, a leader in the Entertainment & Sports rights and content delivery market. The alliance will bundle the SDVP with DICE’s STREAM offering to enable secure distribution of DICE’s 24/7 IP channels portfolio, including premium sports, entertainment and lifestyle content. This collaboration delivers superior, broadcast-grade quality to OTT, CTV and DTH platforms globally.
With the increasing demand for diverse and engaging content, DICE empowers rights holders to quickly expand their reach and monetize content worldwide. By integrating Zixi’s SDVP into DICE’s STREAM, exclusive IP channel rights are bundled with optimized, flawless delivery over any IP network. This allows media channels, broadcasters and digital platforms to easily distribute live and on-demand content to fragmented audiences, driving greater engagement and revenue, providing curated, structured selection of diverse content. With the partnership, DICE further strengthens its value proposition, enabling its customers to deliver exceptional viewing experiences with greater reliability, scalability, and security.
Zixi enhances DICE’s ability to deliver broadcast-grade quality while reducing operational complexity for customers. Zixi’s ultra-low latency streaming, robust security, reliability and scalability enable best-of-breed performance for DICE’s STREAM customers, who benefit from a lower total cost of ownership with dramatically reduced egress and computing costs while additionally gaining cutting-edge tools to monitor and manage signals across the network. Zixi’s ZEN Master provides advanced control, enabling customers to efficiently orchestrate, manage and monitor channel distribution across multiple regions and platforms ensuring that DICE’s STREAM customers can easily scale content delivery securely and with confidence.
“DICE revolutionizes the Entertainment & Sports rights value chain, simplifying the complex landscape of content acquisition and delivery,” said Sid Khemka, Founder and CEO, DICE Verse. “Our partnership with Zixi ensures that we deliver the highest-quality viewing experience for our customers while streamlining operational efficiencies. Together, we’re shaping the future of content distribution.”
“Zixi is committed to delivering broadcast-quality streams over IP networks while offering customers deployment options,” said Valerio Motti, Managing Director, Europe, Zixi. “The DICE partnership expands the reach of the Zixi Enabled Network, empowering our joint customers to innovatively distribute and monetize their content, with the reliability and security they trust Zixi to provide.”
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About Dice
DICE Verse transforms the global Entertainment & Sports rights marketplace by providing an efficient, cost-effective ecosystem for rights acquisition and content distribution. DICE’s STREAM offering focuses on diverse, premium IP channels, enabling rights holders to expand their reach and media channels to engage fragmented audiences with relevant, high-quality content.
For more information, contact DICE: mira@diceverse.io
About Zixi
Zixi provides the cloud based and on-premises Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP®) 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, sports leagues, service providers, cable operators and Telcos around the world, giving them the lowest TCO in the industry. Many of Zixi’s clients are delivering and managing thousands of streams, and there is no other alternative in the market that can provide 99.999%+ reliability at scale. Zixi simplifies building and managing congestion-aware live video routes on any network, with support for 18-protocols across any operating environment, with products that are purpose built to provide market leading performance, universal interoperability and an operational control plane that simplifies management and orchestration at scale. With 15+ years of innovation and expertise, the Zixi Enabled Network has grown to over 1000+ media customers and 400+ OEM and service providers that deliver 20,000+ channels daily, with 110,000+ deployed instances in over 120 countries, gathering over 9 billion data points a day while delivering over 100,000 live sporting events a year. This powerful ecosystem of the largest media organizations in the world exchanging live video allows for the creation and acceleration of new content acquisition, business models, and opportunities to reduce cost and generate revenue.
