Live Event Broadcasting
Online video is becoming increasingly popular to broadcast live concerts, sporting events, and global conferences. Organizations also have increasingly incorporated online live video to reach out to customers, employees, and other stakeholders. The uses for live video are diverse executive communications, marketing and sales presentations, training, recruiting and conferencing to save time and help companies save money.
Tata Communications’ LiveBroadcast™ provides an affordable way for corporations, media companies, and event organizers to explore the benefits of live broadcast without negatively impacting the rest of the network.
- Flash-based streaming service for broadcasting TV quality, live content via the Internet
- LiveBroadcast is easy to use and does not require a special media player to view content and hence can be integrated with your existing players or outsourced to any other website
- The CDN platform leverages Tata Communications’ Tier-1 Global IP network for world-class resiliency and performance. The CDN network features dedicated nodes in the Americas, Europe, and Asia (including India), with Points-of-Presence (PoPs) globally for high availability and increased delivery speeds
- The use of HTTP allows LiveBroadcast to stream in all environments including HD enabling the future of video delivery formats
- Distributes content within a two- to four-second delay
- Distributed Origin architecture to deliver Flash/H.264 video-on-demand services and incoming live streams are simultaneously replicated on every delivery node ensuring
cache -misses and overall better user experience
- Since no proprietary live server-based solution is used, the LiveBroadcast service can easily scale to handle any live event
- Request as many publishing points as required at no extra cost, for separate events, or different bitrates for the same event
- Creation of publishing points is made easy through the web dashboard
- Local configuration of the encoding CPE is simple and managed through a web interface, allowing you to choose your publishing point, bit rate, frames per second and resolution in a few clicks
- No need to perform complex calculations on sizing the event before it takes place LiveBroadcast is based on standard protocols known to be scalable for ingestion and delivery of your live feed. We won’t have to dedicate any specific Streaming Servers to match your live event, however big your audience
Find out more - Mysore Dasara Festival, IISC, IGF Case Studies