VIDEO GATEWAY
BETA
Beta • Early-access proofs of concept
Distribute transport streams with the scalability and economics of a CDN
Video Gateway brings CDN distribution to broadcast transport streams. Encapsulate your incoming TS over HLS, distribute it through Akamai, Amazon CloudFront or another CDN, and restore the original transport stream at each receiving site.
No transcoding or changes to the transport stream. Central management of channel access, receivers and local outputs.
VIDEO GATEWAY
BETA
Beta • Early-access proofs of concept
Distribute transport streams with the scalability and economics of a CDN
Video Gateway brings CDN distribution to broadcast transport streams. Encapsulate your incoming TS over HLS, distribute it through Akamai, Amazon CloudFront or another CDN, and restore the original transport stream at each receiving site.
No transcoding or changes to the transport stream. Central management of channel access, receivers and local outputs.
WHAT VIDEO GATEWAY DOES
Preserve the original stream
Carry the transport stream exactly as received. Encapsulation preserves its contents without transcoding, filtering or modifying the TS, and the receiver restores that original stream for local delivery.
Preserve the original stream
Carry the transport stream exactly as received. Encapsulation preserves its contents without transcoding, filtering or modifying the TS, and the receiver restores that original stream for local delivery.
Use CDN infrastructure for distribution
Distribute full transport streams through the CDN of your choice. Video Gateway is designed to make CDN delivery economics available to channel distribution, with an architecture you can evaluate against your own channel count, bitrates and receiving locations.
Use CDN infrastructure for distribution
Distribute full transport streams through the CDN of your choice. Video Gateway is designed to make CDN delivery economics available to channel distribution, with an architecture you can evaluate against your own channel count, bitrates and receiving locations.
Keep your existing playout system
Use Video Gateway independently with an external playout system or incoming transport stream source. Inetsat Video Servers also include sender capabilities, allowing the two products to work together.
Keep your existing playout system
Use Video Gateway independently with an external playout system or incoming transport stream source. Inetsat Video Servers also include sender capabilities, allowing the two products to work together.
Give every team the right controls
Engineering configures available channels and distribution streams. Affiliate management assigns channel access. Affiliates manage local outputs on the receivers at their facilities, within the permissions assigned to them.
Give every team the right controls
Engineering configures available channels and distribution streams. Affiliate management assigns channel access. Affiliates manage local outputs on the receivers at their facilities, within the permissions assigned to them.
Choose CDN delivery, SRT, or a combination
Use HLS encapsulation for CDN distribution and SRT where it fits your delivery architecture. Manage the distribution through the same backend and configure receiver outputs for each destination.
Choose CDN delivery, SRT, or a combination
Use HLS encapsulation for CDN distribution and SRT where it fits your delivery architecture. Manage the distribution through the same backend and configure receiver outputs for each destination.
ARCHITECTURE
Central control from source to affiliate
Video Gateway separates distribution management from stream transport. The backend coordinates configuration, channel access and monitoring, while senders, receivers and optional Broadcasters handle delivery.
Backend
Manage and monitor the distribution through the web administration console or API. Assign granular permissions to engineering, affiliate management and affiliate teams, so each can control the channels and functions relevant to their role.
Backend
Manage and monitor the distribution through the web administration console or API. Assign granular permissions to engineering, affiliate management and affiliate teams, so each can control the channels and functions relevant to their role.
Video Gateway Sender
Receive incoming transport stream feeds from one or multiple channels. Encapsulate them over HLS for distribution through a CDN, or transport them over SRT to multiple locations.
Video Gateway Sender
Receive incoming transport stream feeds from one or multiple channels. Encapsulate them over HLS for distribution through a CDN, or transport them over SRT to multiple locations.
Inetsat Video Server
Inetsat Video Servers have Video Gateway Sender capabilities built in. Use the existing playout engine as the source of a Gateway distribution workflow when the two products are deployed together.
Inetsat Video Server
Inetsat Video Servers have Video Gateway Sender capabilities built in. Use the existing playout engine as the source of a Gateway distribution workflow when the two products are deployed together.
Video Gateway Receiver
Retrieve configuration from the backend and connect to the assigned HLS or SRT streams. Restore the encapsulated transport stream and output TS over UDP, RTP or SRT at the receiving facility.
Video Gateway Receiver
Retrieve configuration from the backend and connect to the assigned HLS or SRT streams. Restore the encapsulated transport stream and output TS over UDP, RTP or SRT at the receiving facility.
Video Gateway Broadcaster
Dynamically generate multiple SRT outputs from each input for large-scale distribution. Use this component where the delivery design calls for additional SRT fan-out.
Video Gateway Broadcaster
Dynamically generate multiple SRT outputs from each input for large-scale distribution. Use this component where the delivery design calls for additional SRT fan-out.
CDN infrastructure
Carry the HLS-encapsulated transport streams between sender and receivers. Use Akamai, Amazon CloudFront or another CDN as part of your distribution design.
CDN infrastructure
Carry the HLS-encapsulated transport streams between sender and receivers. Use Akamai, Amazon CloudFront or another CDN as part of your distribution design.
KEY FEATURES
Full-stream distribution, with control at every site
Transport stream encapsulation over HLS
Encapsulate any incoming TS for CDN distribution while preserving the original stream. Restore it at the receiver without transcoding or modifying the TS.
Transport stream encapsulation over HLS
Encapsulate any incoming TS for CDN distribution while preserving the original stream. Restore it at the receiver without transcoding or modifying the TS.
Central management and monitoring
Configure and monitor distribution through Inetsat’s Backend. Manage channels, available streams and receiver configuration through the web console or API.
Central management and monitoring
Configure and monitor distribution through Inetsat’s Backend. Manage channels, available streams and receiver configuration through the web console or API.
Affiliate self-service
Authorize the channels available to each affiliate and give its team access to manage local TS outputs on the receiver at their facilities.
Affiliate self-service
Authorize the channels available to each affiliate and give its team access to manage local TS outputs on the receiver at their facilities.
Flexible deployment and transport
Deploy Gateway components on hardware appliances, virtual machines or cloud instances. Support TS transport over UDP, RTP and SRT, with HLS encapsulation for CDN delivery.
Flexible deployment and transport
Deploy Gateway components on hardware appliances, virtual machines or cloud instances. Support TS transport over UDP, RTP and SRT, with HLS encapsulation for CDN delivery.
Automatic and manual switching
Configure alternative streams for receiver failover. Switch automatically when failures are detected or select the stream manually through the administration console.
Automatic and manual switching
Configure alternative streams for receiver failover. Switch automatically when failures are detected or select the stream manually through the administration console.
OPERATING MODES
Choose how your receivers handle redundancy
Optimize Bandwidth
The receiver connects to one stream at a time. If it loses connectivity or detects high packet loss, it switches to an alternative or backup stream. This mode limits receiver bandwidth use by avoiding continuous reception of both streams.
Optimize Bandwidth
The receiver connects to one stream at a time. If it loses connectivity or detects high packet loss, it switches to an alternative or backup stream. This mode limits receiver bandwidth use by avoiding continuous reception of both streams.
Optimize Failover Switching
The receiver connects to both primary and backup streams at the same time. If one fails, it can switch immediately to the other stream already connected. This mode uses bandwidth for both incoming streams to prioritize switching speed.
Optimize Failover Switching
The receiver connects to both primary and backup streams at the same time. If one fails, it can switch immediately to the other stream already connected. This mode uses bandwidth for both incoming streams to prioritize switching speed.
EARLY ACCESS
BETA
Evaluate Video Gateway with your own feeds
Video Gateway is currently in beta and accepting early-access proofs of concept. Bring your source feeds, distribution requirements and receiving-site configuration. Let’s define an evaluation around stream preservation, delivery performance, failover behavior and operating costs.