Videon and Zixi elevate live video partnership

Videon has natively integrated Zixi into LiveEdge, its container-based edge compute ecosystem with sub-second glass-to-glass latency. A second integration enables LiveEdge to be managed by Zixi’s Zen Master control plane, enabling users to manage large-scale configurations and orchestrate, analyse, monitor and report on live video streams and devices across the Zixi Enabled Network of customers, integrated hardware and software applications, platforms and service providers standardised on Zixi.

LiveEdge aims to simplify first-mile workflows by normalising and synchronising live video, audio, graphics and data feeds in real-time, enabling complex workflows and use cases including remote production kits, live betting, multi-camera time sync, video assistant referee, localised graphics, remote camera control, automated ad marker insertion and in-stadium second screen experiences, to name a few.

Key features include the ingest of live video, audio, graphics and metadata, including proprietary and custom data formats, for normalisation, synchronisation, visualisation and security using native, third-party, or custom containers such as SMPTE-336 (KLV), SCTE-35, timestamp, DRM, watermarking, etc.

Many of Zixi’s clients are using the Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP) to deliver and manage thousands of streams. Low-latency error-free transport over IP networks is critical to media organisations contributing and delivering live video over unmanaged IP networks, and the Zixi protocol is a resilient congestion- and network-aware protocol that adjusts to varying network conditions and employs patented, dynamic Forward Error Correction techniques for error-free video transport over IP.

v17 of Zixi’s core software, being released at IBC2023, improves processing capacity, requiring 95% less compute compared to other available options, as well as helping to reduce transport stream egress cost by up to 50%.

Videon utilises key components of the SDVP to transport broadcast quality, ultra-low latency live video over any IP network. LiveEdge devices with the native Zixi integration include EdgeCaster EZ, EdgeCaster VCP, LiveEdge Node, the new LiveEdge Max, and across multiple form factors, including LiveEdge 2Go Mini, LiveEdge 2Go and LiveEdge Rack.

“As Videon’s footprint rapidly expands, becoming an embedded and critical component in major workflows, our customers recognised the value of Zixi’s dependable and scalable broadcast-quality video delivery,” said Lionel Bringuier, chief product officer at Videon. “While Videon empowers users to harness edge computing, ingesting live video, audio, graphics and data feeds to simplify first-mile workflows and create new revenue-generating opportunities, our collaboration with Zixi further elevates this capability, offering the industry’s lowest TCO and unmatched management of linear and event channels at scale through the SDVP integration.”

“With its unmatched efficiency and scale, reduced infrastructure requirements and transport stream egress cost reduction, Zixi opens new possibilities for growth, innovation and enhanced video streaming experiences,” said John Wastcoat, SVP BD and marketing, Zixi. “The integration with LiveEdge and partnership with Videon expands our ability to deliver exciting use cases like live betting, video assistant referee and dynamic, unique in-stadium second screen experiences.”