MWEdge is a uniquely positioned software gateway product that brings reliable-transport protocols like SMPTE ST 2022-7, SRT, RIST and Zixi together with a broadcast toolset focused on tier 1 broadcasters who need to move live media with absolute reliability.
Already seeing wide adoption within multi-national broadcasters, MWEdge is used for workflows into, out of and within the cloud as part of on-air broadcast chains, as a firewall to traverse from one network to another and as a protocol gateway with advanced monitoring, service redundancy, and RTP passthrough.
One major new feature from 2022 is native NDI transport. This means absolutely transcoding-free movement of NDI streams into and out of the cloud but, crucially, while also protecting them with a combination of technologies to ensure delivery. MWEdge is able to combine RIST or SRT with SMPTE ST 2022-7. ST 2022-7 delivers two copies of the stream to the receiver to deal with path failure and RIST/SRT will fix any errors on one individual path. Naturally, MWEdge provides failover switching between feeds based on priority and configurable fault conditions which NDI streams also benefit from along with encryption for safe transport.
Telemetry is of major importance to top broadcasters who need real-time monitoring of feeds and who demand root cause analysis of significant events. MWEdge continuously takes a complete set of ETR 290 measurements from all inputs, logs these and also makes them available to Grafana, Dataminer, Splunk and other databases. MWEdge also analyses inter-packet arrival time (rolling average, max and min) which is a vital statistic for understanding problems within IP environments but which is missing from many products. Uniquely, MWEdge uses a web socket to push data to Dataminer to maximise efficiency, minimise latency and to allow for high volumes of data.
At Techex, we’ve been working with our customers for years to bring a remarkable breadth and depth of features which we feel set MWEdge apart during the current commoditisation of IP gateways. Increasingly, Techex is seeing major broadcasters working at scale with full API integration for Infrastructure as Code deployments, who need software on-premise as well as in the cloud with detailed monitoring at both ends of the link. It’s our customers we work with daily that demand absolutely robust, multi-path delivery of NDI, and high-security software with enterprise-level user management who have made the product what it is today.
