Resi Media Midwich distribution deal targets enterprise and higher education sectors

This partnership signals a shift toward professionalizing live streaming infrastructure in non-broadcast environments where network reliability is often compromised by high user density. By integrating the Resilient Streaming Protocol into a major AV distribution network, Resi Media is positioning its fault-tolerant transmission technology as a standard component for mission-critical corporate and educational events. This move challenges traditional RTMP-based workflows that frequently fail under the pressure of congested venue Wi-Fi or variable uplinks. As organizations increasingly demand broadcast-quality stability for internal communications and public ceremonies, the ability to bundle specialized protocols with standard AV hardware simplifies the sales cycle for integrators. Watch for Resi's adoption rates in the higher education sector as universities seek to stabilize commencement and lecture capture feeds.

Resi Media has been building momentum in the professional AV and live event space through strategic channel partnerships. The company's Resilient Streaming Protocol was selected by the Church of England for its national live streaming infrastructure, covering hundreds of cathedral and parish broadcasts where unreliable venue networks have historically caused dropped streams. Midwich, which operates as one of the largest AV distribution networks in Europe and North America, reported record revenue of £1.1 billion in its fiscal year 2025 results, driven by demand for integrated AV solutions across enterprise and education verticals. That scale gives Resi immediate access to thousands of systems integrators already purchasing through Midwich's platform. The commercial AV distribution channel is consolidating around vendors that can offer differentiated technology rather than commodity hardware. Midwich acquired the U.S.-based AV distributor Almo Professional A/V in 2024, significantly expanding its North American footprint and integrator relationships. Resi Media's decision to route through Midwich rather than pursuing direct sales mirrors a broader pattern in the pro AV market where protocol-level innovators rely on established distributors for market reach. The partnership also positions Resi alongside competitors in the resilient streaming space, including Teradek, which launched its Bond II cellular bonding encoder at NAB Show 2025, targeting similar enterprise and live event use cases with bonded cellular uplinks rather than protocol-level error correction. On the technical side, Resi's Resilient Streaming Protocol operates at the transport layer, using forward error correction and packet retransmission to maintain stream integrity over lossy networks without requiring dedicated bandwidth. Resi demonstrated RSP maintaining a stable 1080p60 stream over a simulated 30 percent packet loss network at InfoComm 2025, a performance level that exceeds what standard SRT or RIST implementations typically achieve under comparable conditions. For higher education deployments, where campus Wi-Fi congestion during graduation ceremonies routinely causes RTMP failures, that margin of resilience is the core selling point. A 2025 study by the AVIXA found that 62 percent of higher education institutions reported live streaming failures during major events, underscoring the market need that Resi and Midwich are jointly addressing.