For content distributors and other organizations looking to engage with their audiences through live events and linear IPTV, live video streaming is a great tool. Live video streaming allows for you to communicate with your audience in real time, making your brand visible. Real-time analytics will allow you to learn how you can stream video to the best way for your customers.
Why Live Video Streaming is Complex
Implementing live video streaming can be difficult because it is hard to predict audience behavior and composition. The variety of streaming formats, access networks, and platforms available can make it difficult to deliver live video streams. Consumers expect high-quality performance and availability no matter where they are, at any time and on any device. It is more difficult than ever to guarantee a smooth, enjoyable viewing experience online, especially when streaming live.
Users can be prevented from accessing live video streaming events if they exceed the server capacity. This could lead to users being unable to access your content, and leaving with a bad impression about your company. Even if you have sufficient servers to handle the demand for video streaming, network congestion, latency, and packet loss can cause video performance problems that could lead to your audience disengaging and moving on to better video quality.
Intelligent Stream Packaging and Delivery simplifies Live Video Streaming
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- Our stream packaging and video transcoding solution streamlines live streaming workflows. It processes a single stream to reach multiple platforms and devices, and dynamically packages your content using the appropriate protocol. This could be HTTP live streaming for iOS or Android platforms, or HTTP dynamic streaming (HDS for Flash-based platforms). For live delivery, we also support MPEG-DASH and other streaming formats.
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- Our cloud-based storage solution and delivery system supports streaming with multi-stream redundancy, and capabilities like DVR-enabled streaming.
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- Our CDN is distributed worldwide. The Akamai Intelligent Platform, which is a platform for content optimization and distribution, can scale with your audience in order to handle large live streaming events. It supports thousands of streams simultaneously.
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- Our Media Analytics toolkit can monitor video playback quality and ensure your users are able to enjoy every live broadcast, from start to finish
Akamai is a pioneer in content delivery and has over a decade’s experience in streaming media. We understand how complicated live video streaming can seem. We can provide the technology, reliability, and scale you need to make sure your viewers are always satisfied.
- Our stream packaging and video transcoding solution streamlines live streaming workflows. It processes a single stream to reach multiple platforms and devices, and dynamically packages your content using the appropriate protocol. This could be HTTP live streaming for iOS or Android platforms, or HTTP dynamic streaming (HDS for Flash-based platforms). For live delivery, we also support MPEG-DASH streaming formats.
- Our cloud-based storage solution and delivery system supports streaming with multi-stream redundancy, and capabilities like DVR-enabled streaming.
- Our CDN is distributed worldwide. The Akamai Intelligent Platform, which is designed to optimize content distribution and distribution, can scale with your audience in order to handle large live streaming events. It supports thousands of streams simultaneously.
- Our Media Analytics toolkit can monitor video playback quality and ensure your users are able to enjoy every live broadcast, from start to finish.
