Your partner when live can't fail
When live sports go out to millions, uptime and signal quality aren't negotiable, but we're in the war room with you. Live gives you one shot. We find the fault behind the alert and act before it reaches the screen, with the same urgency you feel. Because a stream that drops isn't a metric to us. It's someone's broadcast. It's an audience that suddenly can't watch.
An encoder fault, a packaging error, and a CDN origin failure can all trigger the exact same alert, a spike in rebuffering or playback errors that looks identical no matter which layer actually broke. What separates a five-minute fix from a five-hour outage is whether the person looking at that alert has seen the failure before. That's what we bring: engineers who know the architecture deeply enough to isolate the problem in seconds and act with confidence, not guess with urgency.
Proven on the world's biggest stages
Our team's background includes receiving live contribution feeds over satellite and IP and processing them for downstream delivery across cable, terrestrial and satellite TV, IPTV, and OTT. Whether it's transcoding, multiplexing, encrypting, or simply forwarding a feed to another facility, we've done it — for large-scale global events where uptime and signal quality under peak load are non-negotiable.
Our acquisition expertise spans the protocols and standards that define the territory. It's the language we speak.
Contribution & Ingest
SRT · RTMP · Zixi · RIST · MPEG-TS over IP
Broadcast Contribution
SMPTE 2110
Structure & Signal Integrity
ISO/IEC 13818-1 · ETSI TR 101 290
Ad Insertion Signaling
SCTE-35 · SCTE-104
How we operate, across tiers
Monitor and triage
Eyes on glass, first response to alerts, incident logging and severity assessment, and escalation of anything that falls outside known patterns. We build our own tooling to keep that work fast and precise.
Diagnose and fix
Deep-dive root cause analysis across network, video, and cloud, configuration changes and drift remediation, and proactive optimization through baselining and bottleneck identification.
Engineer and architect
These are independent layers of a live operation, not a fixed package — plug us in at one, some, or all of them. Wherever the line between your team and ours falls, each tier acts as an engineering filter for the one above, so only confirmed engineering problems ever rise to the next layer.
How we approach live operations
Before the event, we validate everything
Operational design starts at architecture, not the week before launch.
- End-to-end dry runs across every contribution source
- Failover drills that test redundancy paths before they're needed live
- Capacity checks against expected concurrent feed load
- Faults induced on purpose to validate that alerting actually fires
- Runbook walkthroughs as readiness drills, with every risk documented clearly, because in a live event there's no go/no-go decision. The calendar doesn't move.
- Custom test harnesses for platform-specific scenarios, with evidence-based tickets — and engineering teams engaged directly — when a checklist alone won't close the gap
We surface what's broken. We don't redesign your solution without you.
During the event, we follow the live loop
The wrong move during a live event can turn a partial outage into a total one. Our loop is disciplined on purpose.
- Detect, triage, and stabilize first — analyze later
- Capture the evidence while it's live (packet captures, protocol-native stats, logs, telemetry), so root cause can be nailed down after the event instead of reconstructed from memory
- Fix under proper change control
- Every decision accounts for downstream impact across the full streaming chain, from contribution at the headend to playback on every device
When a partner dispute comes up mid-incident, we resolve it with data, not opinion — packet captures and evidence that show exactly where the fault lives.
After the event, the next one gets better
We establish a baseline across both peak and off-peak conditions, then confirm every improvement against it before calling anything resolved.
- Post-event debriefs document what happened, what was ambiguous, and what alert would have caught it earlier
- The architectural change that removes the failure mode at the root, not a patch on the symptom
- Findings codified into alerts, dashboards, and regression checks, prioritized across transport, sync and integrity, processing, and infrastructure metrics
- Knowledge folded back into the standard practice of the engagement
The cycle repeats, and each event starts from a stronger baseline than the last.
What we've built
A stable and scalable streaming platform for large audiences
Designed and operated a streaming platform built for large simultaneous audiences — with monitoring architecture and incident response processes designed for the load profile.
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