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The best way to experience live events used to be seeing them in person. With the coronavirus still lurking, large gatherings of people is far from the best way of dealing with a pandemic. Even before the virus, not everyone that wanted to attend an event could actually attend it due to limitations caused by… Continue reading 14 Essential Features for Developing Live Event Streaming Software

With video content currently accounting for just under 70% of all internet traffic (and creeping upwards), video streaming has never been more important. At the moment, much of that content is managed by Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). However, there are many shortcomings when it comes to CDN video streaming of live content. Since CDNs require… Continue reading 3 Problems with CDN Video Streaming and How We Solved Them

Demand for Solutions Extends Across Multiple Market Segments As video surveillance plays an ever more consequential role in government and private sector markets, finding a way to enable real-time visibility into all fields of view has become a top priority. High-resolution digital cameras equipped to stream live video to monitoring stations near and far have… Continue reading 7 Use Cases Mandating Real-Time Video Surveillance

WebRTC was designed for more than just low latency live streaming. Responding to the needs of a modern streaming application, WebRTC also provides stream security. This post examines the WebRTC security architecture, and how that can be set up. Encryption First and foremost, it needs to be mentioned that WebRTC streams are always encrypted. Encryption… Continue reading 8 Components of WebRTC Security Architecture

As fall approaches those of us working in (and around) the Red5 Pro Boston office can feel the weather changing. Yes, there are few things better than a New England fall: the air is cool and crisp, the leaves are starting to turn and pumpkin spice is being added to just about everything. However, let… Continue reading Red5 Pro Release 7.3.0 – Mobile SDK

It’s time for a Virtual Video Summit! For those that joined us last May, you know that these summits are very informative and insightful. We thought it was a good idea to sponsor another one.   The Virtual Video Summit Fall 2020: A Video Technology Consortium Event October 14th &15th: 10:00am – 2:00pm  EDT There… Continue reading Live Event Video Streaming: The Virtual Video Summit Fall 2020

One of the great benefits distributors should expect from real-time streaming on an open standards-based cloud platform is fail-safe performance enabled by automated cross-cloud redundancy and other persistent-quality mechanisms. Robust performance has become a given of public cloud services, but all too often, failures still occur, whether as a result of network disruptions, server malfunctions… Continue reading Building a Fail-Safe Real-Time Streaming Infrastructure

Education has been one of the areas most affected by the coronavirus. This has greatly increased the need for a good virtual education platform.  Services such as Zoom have filled the immediate need but, as we covered in a previous post, Zoom is not the best solution for educators and students. Further at issue is… Continue reading 9 Best Features for Distance Learning Video Conferencing

Digital rights management (DRM) may seem like an unavoidable fact of life in the premium video streaming world, but, when it comes to real-time streaming over WebRTC, it’s helpful to recognize the most rigorous protection requirements can be met without DRM. Of course, under current licensing policies, distributors of high-value live sports and other programming… Continue reading 4 Reasons to Choose WebRTC Security over DRMs to Protect Live Video