Seamless Integration for Secure Transport, Protection and Monitoring
WALTHAM, MA — September 3, 2024 — Zixi, the industry leader in enabling dependable, live broadcast-quality video over any IP network, and provider of the award-winning Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP®), today announced its partnership and integration with Techex’s tx edge software gateway to provide secure transport, protection, and monitoring for broadcast content between facilities, to and from the cloud, and between other software transformation processes.
Techex’s tx edge is an advanced transport gateway solution providing secure transport, protection and monitoring for live video. Crafted in-house by Techex’s experienced development team in response to the needs of the most demanding clients including major broadcasters and telecommunication companies, it offers a comprehensive array of protocol options for both content ingest and egress, along with numerous possibilities for traffic manipulation within the IP domain. Engineered with security as a paramount concern, tx edge establishes crucial ‘trust boundary’ isolation between networks, while safeguarding against traffic over-rates through advanced traffic policing mechanisms.
Techex’s collaboration with Zixi enables advanced encoding and delivery of content with ultra-low latency across any IP network, including unmanaged Internet connections. This makes it imperative for critical applications like esports, live news coverage, and high-profile entertainment events. Using tx edge to leverage the Zixi protocol ensures dependable and error-free live content delivery over any IP network, with the added advantage of up to 50% packet loss recovery. tx edge includes comprehensive monitoring enabling content providers to seamlessly transfer content to the cloud or transmit it back to a central location for production purposes with full observability.
The integration of Zixi into Techex’s platform allows content creators and distributors to leverage Zixi’s industry-leading video-over-IP technology, which has been proven over 15+ years and trusted by over 1400 media customers in more than 100 countries. Zixi offers a sustainable and cost-effective solution. This powerful ecosystem of the largest media organizations in the world exchanging live video allows for the creation and acceleration of new content acquisition, business models, and opportunities to reduce cost and generate revenue.
“We are excited to have integrated Zixi to deliver broadcast-quality content with ultra-low latency,” said Scott Kewley, Techex CEO. “tx edge is a powerful software gateway, and this integration gives our customers the ability to extend their reach into a global delivery platform.”
“The Zixi Enabled Network continues to expand, and with Techex’s integration we are providing our customers more choices and access to advanced technology partners,” said John Wastcoat, SVP BD and Marketing at Zixi. “With Techex’s integration, they can benefit from frictionless integration, providing access to new possibilities for growth, innovation, and enhanced video streaming experiences.”
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About Techex
Trusted by premier global broadcast and media customers with their most valuable live workflows, Techex transports, protects and transform live video over IP and in the cloud. Its expertise ensured the safe and secure delivery of high value content, where precision, scalability and flexibility are paramount. Using its extensive broadcast experience, Techex supports organizations in transforming to IP and the cloud.
Techex develops its own award-winning software and partners with market-leading technology companies developing an ecosystem of best-in-class solutions and services which can handle the most challenging scenarios. In a market where customer expectations continually evolve, content providers require solutions that deliver reliable and high-quality video whilst optimizing cost and operational efficiencies. Techex bridges the gap between the rigorous of traditional broadcast and the agility of cloud native infrastructure.
About Zixi
Zixi provides the cloud based and on-premises Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP®) that enables reliable broadcast-quality video delivery over any IP network, any protocol, any cloud provider and any edge device. The company offers technologies for broadcasters, enterprises, over-the-top video providers, sports leagues, service providers, cable operators and Telcos around the world, giving them the lowest TCO in the industry. Many of Zixi’s clients are delivering and managing thousands of streams, and there is no other alternative in the market that can provide 99.999%+ reliability at scale. Zixi simplifies building and managing congestion-aware live video routes on any network, with support for 18-protocols across any operating environment, with products that are purpose built to provide market leading performance, universal interoperability and an operational control plane that simplifies management and orchestration at scale. With 15+ years of innovation and expertise, the Zixi Enabled Network has grown to over 1000+ media customers and 400+ OEM and service providers that deliver 20,000+ channels daily, with 110,000+ deployed instances in over 120 countries, gathering over 9 billion data points a day while delivering over 100,000 live sporting events a year. This powerful ecosystem of the largest media organizations in the world exchanging live video allows for the creation and acceleration of new content acquisition, business models, and opportunities to reduce cost and generate revenue.
For more information, contact:
Zixi: info@Zixi.com
