A live stream lives or dies on the delivery layer. This category tracks multi-CDN strategy, edge compute, origin caching, HTTP/3 and QUIC, low-latency HLS and DASH, and the performance monitoring tools that catch problems before viewers do.
GlobalM outlines the operational differences between direct SRT/RIST transport over the public internet and managed cloud-based contribution platforms. The article highlights how cloud-managed environments provide improved observability, centralized orchestration, and scalable media processing compared to point-to-point internet links.
Shellback Technologies details a high-availability architecture for AWS users, leveraging S3 Cross-Region Replication and CloudFront Origin Groups to ensure resilience. The guide explains how to implement Origin Access Control and Origin Shielding to secure storage and optimize cache performance.
TVU Networks has announced the limited availability of its MediaMesh platform tools, designed to automate the configuration and monitoring of software-defined live production workflows. The suite includes Build, Operate, and Observe tools, which aim to reduce specialist engineering costs by simplifying the deployment and troubleshooting of hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
LTN Global is encouraging broadcasters and cable operators to opt for the FCC's lump sum reimbursement for the Upper C-band transition rather than the traditional satellite-led migration. The company argues that this path allows operators to transition to managed IP distribution, potentially reducing operational costs by 40% to 60% while avoiding the technical limitations of Ku-band.
Big Blue Marble will demonstrate a hybrid delivery system at IBC2026 that enables seamless switching between 5G Broadcast and Media over QUIC (MoQ). The demonstration will also feature the first end-to-end implementation of 3GPP Release 19 features for 5G Broadcast, alongside new emergency warning capabilities.
Solidigm, Supermicro, and Vast Data have introduced a new storage tier, G3.5, designed to offload KV cache from GPU memory to NVMe SSDs for agentic AI workloads. The architecture aims to reduce time-to-first-token latency by 20x and lower compute costs by optimizing data movement in large-scale inference environments.
This article explains the technical requirements for implementing CMAF chunked encoding and Low-Latency HLS to achieve 2-5 second glass-to-glass latency. It details the necessary CDN configurations, including request collapsing and chunked relay, while highlighting the trade-offs in request volume and player buffer management.
Mux has launched a new metric called Playing time by rendition for its Mux Data platform, allowing engineers to track the actual wall-clock time viewers spend on specific video renditions. This feature aims to help streaming teams identify underutilized bitrate rungs and validate the real-world impact of encoding ladder adjustments.
Telnyx has introduced custom domain support for its Edge Compute Functions, enabling developers to serve functions from their own hostnames with custom TLS certificates. The update allows for improved branding consistency and granular control over certificate management for streaming infrastructure teams.
Akamai's Security Intelligence Group reports that AI-orchestrated attacks can now generate functional exploits in under 10 minutes, bypassing traditional patch cycles. The research highlights the need for streaming providers to shift from static WAF signatures to real-time behavioral analytics at the edge to mitigate automated reconnaissance and spoofed traffic.
Akamai is expanding its distributed cloud infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region by deploying NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to support low-latency AI inference. The initiative aims to process AI workloads closer to users and data, addressing performance, security, and data sovereignty requirements for enterprise customers.
Broadcasters are increasingly adopting traffic engineering and SDN controllers to manage high-bitrate ST 2110 flows in live production environments. This shift moves networks away from best-effort ECMP routing to provide deterministic performance, prevent microburst-related congestion, and ensure physical path isolation for ST 2022-7 redundancy.
Netgear Enterprise will debut its Align Controller AV platform at IBC2026, a device designed to consolidate network management, precision timing, and cloud connectivity for broadcast IP workflows. The company will also showcase its M4350 and M4250 switching portfolios, which support SMPTE ST 2110 and AES67 standards for interoperable production environments.
Optical interconnect startup Quintessent has raised $40 million in Series A funding to scale production of its gallium arsenide comb lasers. The company's quantum dot-based technology aims to improve data center efficiency by reducing power consumption and increasing throughput for AI-driven network infrastructure.
NETSCOUT has updated its Arbor Edge Defense (AED) solution to mitigate application-layer DDoS attacks that bypass standard CDN protections. The enhancement utilizes a TLS transparent proxy to inspect traffic and identify malicious sources, allowing for precise mitigation without impacting legitimate user access.
Blockcast has launched its Edge Capacity Network (ECN), a platform designed to aggregate underutilized infrastructure from ISPs, broadcasters, and satellite operators into a programmable delivery pool. The service aims to provide content providers and CDNs with additional capacity for high-demand workloads like live sports and AI, complementing existing CDN infrastructure.
Cityside Fiber is leveraging its fiber-to-the-home infrastructure in Southern California to support edge computing, 5G small cells, and smart-city applications. This strategy reflects a broader industry shift toward integrating localized computation with last-mile connectivity to support physical AI and real-time machine learning.
Cloudflare has introduced Bot Preference Sync, a feature that automatically updates a website's robots.txt file based on dashboard-configured AI crawler policies. The update also establishes four transparency requirements for mixed-use crawlers and sets a default 'no-training' policy for ad-monetized domains to help publishers protect content from unauthorized AI training.
Researchers have demonstrated a six-channel optical communication system using orbital angular momentum (OAM) combs and a hybrid intelligent strategy to improve data transmission capacity. The system utilizes a Dammann-vortex-grating for demultiplexing and supports 1024-ary shift keying, offering a scalable solution for high-bandwidth applications like video streaming.
Space has raised $2.4 million in a pre-seed funding round led by a16z Speedrun to develop an AI-native distributed filesystem. The technology aims to eliminate file synchronization bottlenecks by allowing applications and AI agents to access live cloud data directly through the filesystem without requiring full-file downloads.
A market research report from MarketsandMarkets projects the global video surveillance storage market to grow from $10.93 billion in 2026 to $15.55 billion by 2031. The growth is attributed to the adoption of high-resolution IP cameras, hybrid cloud architectures, and increased demand for scalable, AI-ready storage solutions.
Ericsson Americas CTO Joe Constantine argues that the rise of AI inferencing and projected increases in uplink traffic will make mobile edge computing economically necessary for operators. He suggests that modern 5G network capabilities, such as low-latency slicing and cloud-native cores, now provide the infrastructure required to support autonomous systems and robotics at the edge.
GlobalM has integrated its GMX software-defined network platform with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enable automated deployment of media processing and routing resources. The partnership allows broadcasters to dynamically scale SRT and RIST gateways, transcoding, and distribution across OCI's global footprint.
Encompass Digital Media is expanding its partnership with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run Altitude Cloud and Master Control in the Cloud on OCI. The setup is aimed at playout, master control, distribution, VOD processing, archive, and disaster recovery for broadcasters, sports leagues, and streaming platforms.
EE has launched 'Fast Lane,' the UK's first commercial 5G network slicing service, designed to provide dedicated capacity for high-bandwidth applications like livestreaming in congested areas. The service is built on 5G Standalone technology and is available to consumers and small businesses as a premium subscription add-on.
Researchers at UC San Diego have developed FlowForm, a $2 passive 3D-printed tile system designed to redirect millimeter wave signals around physical obstacles. The technology, which uses conductive paint on plastic structures, demonstrated a 94% increase in average link data rates and a 114% improvement in coverage during indoor testing.
LucidLink has released performance updates for its cloud file streaming platform, including significant increases in read/write speeds across Linux, macOS, and Windows. The update also introduces new mobile asset management features, Kerberos proxy authentication for Windows, and enhanced administrative controls for enterprise users.
AWS has introduced inbound prefix controls for its Direct Connect service, increasing the maximum route prefix limit from 100 to 1,000 for private and transit virtual interfaces. This update allows streaming infrastructure teams to manage prefix capacity more granularly across connection and gateway levels.
swXtch.io is launching a managed Global SRT Distribution service and native multicast transport at IBC 2026. These services aim to provide broadcasters with scalable, IP-based alternatives to satellite C-band distribution for live sports, news, and REMI production.
swXtch.io has introduced Global SRT Distribution and native multicast transport services at IBC 2026. The managed services aim to simplify routing, failover, and replication for live producers across cloud and on-premises environments using a publish-and-subscribe model.
NETSCOUT has updated its Arbor Edge Defense solution to include a TLS transparent proxy designed to identify and block application-layer DDoS attacks hidden behind CDN proxies. The enhancement allows enterprises to inspect traffic and apply service-specific countermeasures at the origin without requiring a change to their existing CDN provider.
Appear and Thoroughbred Racing Productions have successfully completed a proof of concept for a multi-camera REMI production workflow using bonded 5G and LEO satellite connectivity. The trial utilized Appear's X5 and X20 platforms with hardware-accelerated SRT to transport four HD camera feeds and two return feeds from remote Australian racecourses.
Security researchers have identified a vulnerability where CRLF injection in Nginx and CDN infrastructure can be escalated into HTTP desynchronization attacks. This flaw allows attackers to poison CDN caches and deliver malicious XSS payloads to users, potentially exposing sensitive session data.
Researchers have identified a new class of Denial-of-Service vulnerability called CDN Tsunami, which exploits protocol translation gaps between HTTP/3 and HTTP/1.1 to achieve up to 350x amplification. The flaw affects major CDN providers including Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, and Fastly, potentially impacting over 42,000 subdomains by exhausting origin connection pools or abusing header compression.
Appear and Thoroughbred Racing Productions (TRP) successfully completed a proof-of-concept trial for remote production (REMI) using bonded 5G and LEO satellite links. The workflow utilized Appear's X5 and X20 platforms to transport four HEVC-encoded camera feeds and two return feeds, demonstrating a viable alternative to fixed fiber infrastructure for regional venues.
Macnica is expanding Linux support for its MEP100 SmartNIC and M2S Media Streaming SDK to facilitate SMPTE ST 2110 development. The platform enables 32 uncompressed HD flows over 100GbE by offloading transport tasks from host CPUs to hardware, with demonstrations scheduled for IBC 2026.
Austrian public broadcaster ORF is transitioning its nationwide contribution network from legacy SDI to an IP-based infrastructure using Net Insight's Nimbra 1000 and 600 platforms. The project, managed by service provider Big Blue Marble, utilizes ST 2110 and NMOS orchestration to connect nine regional production studios to the broadcaster's Vienna headquarters.
Zayo is expanding its North American fiber network by 8,000 route miles to support NVIDIA's scale-across architecture for distributed AI data centers. This infrastructure project aims to provide the high-capacity connectivity required for geographically dispersed AI training and inference workloads.
Lithuanian developer Astrolight is scaling its ATLAS series laser terminals to provide open-standard, 2.5 Gbps optical transport for space-to-ground networks. The hardware is designed to support multi-vendor interoperability, aligning with SDA and ESA specifications to offer an alternative to proprietary satellite constellations.
Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum have developed the QUIC-Attacker framework to identify security vulnerabilities and specification deviations in various QUIC server implementations. The study highlights the significant implementation challenges posed by the complexity of the 250-page RFC standards governing the protocol's packet, frame, and TLS 1.3 interactions.
Mediaproxy is updating its LogServer platform with AI-powered quality of experience monitoring and automated event detection. The company is also launching Monwall Web, a browser-based multiviewer that supports LL-HLS and Media over QUIC, and has joined the open-source MXL project.
Austrian public broadcaster ORF is transitioning from legacy SDI to a nationwide IP-based contribution network using Net Insight’s Nimbra 1000 and 600 platforms. The project, managed by service provider Big Blue Marble, utilizes ST 2110 and NMOS standards to connect ORF's Vienna facilities with nine regional production studios.
Lionsgate Play Asia has implemented NAGRAVISION’s Multi-DRM technology to secure its content library and combat piracy in the Indian market. The deployment is part of a broader strategy to utilize the NAGRA Venturi ecosystem for intelligence-driven security and studio compliance.
NTT and the IOWN Global Forum are advancing All-Photonics Network (APN) technology to reduce latency and power consumption by minimizing electrical-to-optical conversions in data center infrastructure. The roadmap includes the upcoming commercialization of Photonic Electronics Convergence (PEC-2) devices, which aim to integrate optical connections at the board level by early 2027.
RETN CEO Tony O'Sullivan warns that the industry's reliance on existing subsea cable corridors creates 'fake diversity' that leaves global networks vulnerable to common-mode failures. To address rising AI-driven traffic and bandwidth demands, the company is prioritizing the deployment of 400G coherent optics to improve backbone resilience.
A report from SAC Insight highlights that while consumer 8K TV adoption remains slow, the Super Hi-Vision market is growing in professional sectors like medical imaging, industrial automation, and surveillance. The report notes that AI-powered upscaling and advancements in display technologies are helping to mitigate current hardware and content limitations.
Mediaproxy has updated its LogServer platform with AI-powered quality of experience monitoring and introduced Monwall Web, a browser-based multiviewer supporting MoQ and LL-HLS protocols. Additionally, the company has joined the open-source Media eXchange Layer (MXL) project to integrate ultra-low latency media transport into its software-defined workflows.
Lionsgate Play Asia has selected NAGRAVISION to implement its Multi-DRM solution within the NAGRA Venturi ecosystem to secure its OTT platform in India. The deployment aims to provide studio-grade content protection and a scalable framework to mitigate piracy as the service expands its content library.
Appear and Thoroughbred Racing Productions have successfully completed a proof of concept for multi-camera remote live production using bonded 5G and LEO satellite connectivity. The trial utilized Appear's X5 and X20 hardware platforms to transport HEVC-encoded feeds via SRT, demonstrating a viable workflow for remote racecourse broadcasting without traditional infrastructure.
SpaceX’s Starlink has secured partnerships with 48 airlines to provide high-speed, low-latency satellite internet for in-flight connectivity. The service aims to support data-intensive applications like video streaming and gaming, with major carriers like United and Qatar Airways already integrating the technology.
