The networks change.
Your control doesn’t.
Own your live video through the C-band transition, and after it.
Satellite does more than move video: it defines how failover, rights, blackouts, and switching work, all with predictable behavior. IP alone solves connectivity, not control. Zixi restores that governance in software and holds it constant on any network, so you move through the transition with reliability and control intact, and the freedom to change networks, vendors, or paths without re-platforming.
Hybrid or all-IP. One control layer.
There’s no single path off C-band. Zixi handles the right fit for your workflow, with a separate control layer that orchestrates the switching and gives you one place to see and manage every feed.
Hybrid: keep satellite, add IP
Satellite stays your primary path and IP recovers only what it drops. Built to the VSF standard, with automatic packet recovery or full stream recovery if the satellite link fails.
All-IP: full IP distribution
Move fully to IP when you’re ready. Broadcast-grade across diverse paths, proven at scale by the stations running all-IP in production today.
Either way, reuse the IRDs and encoders you already own. No rip and replace.
What Zixi does, on either path
Delivers where you already distribute. Existing IRDs, vMVPDs, OTT platforms, and cloud environments, from one workflow, so you reach every destination without rebuilding for each.
Reliability you can prove
Five-nines on networks you don’t own. A SMPTE 2022-7 hitless merge across diverse paths, or packet-recovery mode over one, absorbing up to 40% packet loss, and measured per site, path, and channel so every provider is held to its SLA. Latency locks to a fixed value or tracks the network.
The last mile, solved
Bond fiber, 5G, LTE, and LEO into one resilient link with Zixi Edge Compute at the site, turning limited or unreliable connectivity into a dependable receive point.
Quality you don’t compress away
The more of the workflow that runs on IP, the less repeated decode and re-encode along the way, so content holds the resolution, frame rate, and dynamic range it was created in. Deliver 4K and HDR without over-compressing to fit a transponder.
Control that stays constant
ZEN Master orchestrates every protocol and network from one view, and extends into your existing IRDs through the Zixi SDK. Rights, blackout, and market switching stay intact, with SCTE-35/224, ESNI, and ESAM.
Normalization built in
Incoming feeds rarely arrive uniform. Zixi handles SCTE-35 manipulation, PID mapping, and demux/remux, so streams are standardized for downstream distribution without bolting on separate systems.
Secured path by path
Each transport link is encrypted with DTLS and AES-256, with session allowlisting, password protection, and certificate validation. Providers keep control of which sites receive which channels.
Economics you can predict
Content-aware transport and market switching move less data per stream, and pricing aligns to how you distribute, per channel, per event, or per GB, so cost scales with your business instead of your site count.
New revenue expansion
IP opens capacity satellite couldn’t: more channels, more localized and regional variants, and dynamic ad insertion aligned to each market. Market switching with SCTE-35/224 makes that inventory addressable, so distribution becomes a revenue lever, not just a cost line.
Already running the transition, in production.
- More than 1.7 exabytes of live video in 2025, roughly 450 Gbps continuously
- Network feeds for hundreds of local stations to YouTube TV, Hulu + Live, and Fubo
- Patented hitless failover in addition to SMPTE 2022-7
- Participated in the FCC’s upper C-band proceeding since February 2025
Move through C-band with control intact.
Reliability, rights, and switching stay constant whether you go hybrid or all-IP, on any network you choose, now or later.
