Have an existing video streaming business or looking to start one? MediaCP Cloud Video operates with worldwide ingest and CDN locations, backed by a 99% uptime guarantee.
A live broadcast only gets one chance; if the stream goes down, viewers are lost and the event is affected. For livestreams reliability is everything; however, regional network issues happen, routes get congested, and streams stop working. Here’s how MediaCP Cloud Video keeps broadcasts online:
Multiple Worldwide Ingest Locations
Rather than routing every broadcaster through one regional entry point, ingest is distributed across multiple locations globally. Distributing the ingest locations means your stream doesn’t have to travel around the world to get into the platform.
Having the lowest latency and the best connection are critical for live broadcasting. Your encoder connects to the ingest infrastructure closest to your location, ensuring your stream starts faster and remains stable throughout your broadcast. A better connection allows higher sustained bitrates for streams.
Having multiple ingest also allows for redundancy in the event of local failure. If a regional network issue affects one location, you can connect to a backup ingest location and get your stream back online. You don’t have to wait for the regional issue to be fixed to start streaming again.
Global CDN Delivery
Ingest covers the stream coming in, but once a broadcast is live, it still needs to travel to every viewer and device across the world. Streaming from a single location is fine for viewers in close proximity to the broadcast, but viewers further away experience lag, buffering and lower quality.
MediaCP CDN is powered by Akamai, distributing your stream across a global content delivery network with edge servers positioned strategically around the world. Viewers connect to the server nearest to them, getting fast, reliable playback regardless of their location.
If a regional network issue affects delivery in one area, the CDN can route around it, similar to how multiple ingests work upstream. A network problem in one region doesn’t have to affect viewers elsewhere in the world.
Reliability Features
Beyond global infrastructure, MediaCP Cloud Video includes features designed to keep your broadcast online and viewers connected.
Fallback Video: Keeps a channel live and broadcasting when there’s no active encoder or scheduled source, so viewers who arrive early or tune in between programmes don’t land on a dead channel. Likewise, if there is a dropout from the live encoder, the broadcast will play the fallback instead of dropping the stream.
Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Streaming: Viewers with poor internet connections can still view the stream smoothly. The stream automatically adjusts quality rather than buffering or stopping. This is critical for ensuring viewers with poor internet connections can still reliably view the stream.
99% Uptime Guarantee
MediaCP backs our delivery network with a 99% uptime guarantee, built on the redundancy above: multiple ingest points, CDN-routed delivery, and fallback handling for the gaps in between.
All handled by our team of engineers, removing the need to worry about server administration, maintenance, scaling or management. MediaCP Cloud Video is ready and reliable out the box, ready to scale with you as your business grows.
Start Streaming with Confidence
MediaCP Cloud Video combines redundant global ingest, Akamai-powered CDN delivery, and a 99% uptime guarantee in one platform. Whether you’re broadcasting a single channel or reselling hundreds under your own brand, we handle reliability so you can focus on your customers and content.
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