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.

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Solution Description

Zixi’s proprietary Software-Defined Video Platform or SDVP is the tight integration of four components that enable broadcast-quality live video workflows to be intelligently and centrally provisioned, deployed, managed, and monitored using software and integrated devices, regardless of the underlying network infrastructure. Employed by traditional broadcasters, OTT broadcast services, service providers to source, manage, and distribute live events and 24/7 live linear channels over any IP network, protocol, cloud provider, and/or edge device.

Protocols & Containers – The SDVP accepts over 17 industry protocols and containers, advancing the market leading Zixi protocol while adding additional value to tangential offerings from other vendors, standards, and open-sourced initiatives. Most customers rely on the Zixi protocol for transport as it is congestion and network-aware and can dynamically adjust to varying network conditions and employ forward error correction techniques for error-free video delivery.

Video Solutions Stack – Zixi’s Video Solutions Stack provides essential tools and core media processing functions for broadcast-quality transport that corrects for packet loss and jitter. Patented Hitless Failover techniques provide 99.9999%+ reliable transport between sources and receivers. The Video Solutions Stack also provides broadcasters with enhanced tools to streamline workflows including protocol switching, analytics, live 4K transcoding and repackaging, recording, time shifted delivery, and auto-slating.

Intelligent Data Platform – Zixi is constantly incorporating analytics, event correlation, AI and Machine Learning tools in its platform to aggregate a user’s historical and real-time metadata and present it back to them to help better predict downtime, content quality, trends, and more in the form of alerts, notifications, and background monitoring.

ZEN Master – With Zixi’s ZEN Master control plane, cost-effectively manage and monitor complex deployments at scale and configure and orchestrate live broadcast channels across protocols and the Zixi Enabled Network. ZEN Master allows for control of the edge, network, and cloud with full telemetry visualization of network streams. It offers essential monitoring and management tools like workflow visualization, alerting, history, automation, scheduling, reporting, and root cause analysis across complex media supply chains.

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Benefits

Orchestration
Architect and securely deploy workflows across diverse cloud platforms, global regions and private networks

Telemetry
Provide granular visibility to endpoints downstream with Zixi protected multicast

Interoperability
18 protocols, 450+ integrated partners, open standard transmission options

Scalability
The Zixi Broadcaster software is multi-threaded, so high throughput can be achieved 6Gbps+

Virtualization
Bridge remote media facilities to maximize value of diversely deployed resources and systems/tools

Zixi Sequential Hitless Failover
Zixi patented hitless failover is extension and improvement of SMPTE 2022-7 with industry leading packet sequencing alignment algorithm

Bonding
Zixi dynamically and intelligently manages fluctuating bandwidth, packet loss, and latency differences of individual network connections in real-time, to choose the optimal path to route IP packets

Low Latency
Zixi manages latency as an adjustable parameter and assigns latency budgets to achieve desired QoS


Features and Key Components

 
  • ARQ: Efficient re-transmission and congestion avoidance 
  • FEC: Forward Error Correction is enabled to each multicast client 
  • Diverse Network Path Bonding 
  • Sequenced Hitless Failover 
  • DTLS Connection Security and AES Content Encryption 
  • Dynamic Adaptive Bit Rate Control 
  • Dynamic Continuously Optimized Adjustable Latency 
  • PID Selection, Re-Mapping and Normalization 
  • Low Latency Live GPU-Accelerated Transcoding and Stream Packaging 
  • Enhanced QoS across private networks including lower quality circuits 
  • MEC and Cloud Orchestration with automated resource provisioning in
  • AWS Wavelength Zones (WLZ)

Existing / Featured deployments

 

  • Bloomberg
  • Fox
  • NHL
  • MLB
  • MLS
  • Fubo
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Paramount Global
  • Disney
  • ESPN
  • YouTube

 


Verizon components

  • Optical Wave Services
  • PIP
  • Managed Internet
  • VNOC
  • Managed Ethernet
  • Public and Private MEC