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Luxury Live: How Octal Used the Zixi Platform to Power Dior’s VIP Car Streams at Paris Fashion Week

Xavier Deschuyteneer, Owner, Octal
Andrew Reich, VP of Business Development, Zixi

Overview
Andrew Reich sits down with Xavier, founder of Octal, to explore how they delivered cinema-grade live video from moving VIP cars during Dior’s Paris Fashion Week.

Using OBE encoders, four 5G modems with Webbing SIMs plus a Starlink Mini per vehicle, and the Zixi Platform deployed in AWS, Octal scaled from two to four cars with two cameras each—sustaining ~20 Mbps per feed while navigating dense urban cellular conditions. Xavier describes how multi-network bonding, adaptive recovery, and cloud-based monitoring helped maintain stable contribution feeds in a challenging RF environment where traditional news-gathering approaches typically fall short.

Key Takeaways

  • Mission-critical mobile contribution
    Octal delivered cinema-grade live video from moving VIP cars through central Paris, using four 5G modems from different operators plus a Starlink Mini per vehicle to maintain reliable connectivity in one of the most congested RF environments imaginable.

  • Zixi-powered multi-network bonding
    The Zixi Platform handled bonding across all available networks, with adaptive recovery and error correction ensuring stable ~20 Mbps per feed quality — performance far beyond what traditional news-gathering backpacks can achieve.

  • Cloud-native scale in AWS (or any cloud)
    Starting with two cars and scaling to four cars with two cameras each, Octal used Zixi in AWS to spin up additional feeds on demand, build a multiview, transcode where needed, and monitor detailed telemetry without deploying new hardware.

  • Software-defined flexibility
    Zixi ran as pure software on a mix of Intel NUCs and Supermicro servers, enabling Octal to deploy transport workflows wherever needed and control them remotely via a simple web interface and VPN into each vehicle.
  • Interoperability across the ecosystem
    The workflow integrated OBE encoders, Webbing programmable SIMs, ZTE PoE modems, Starlink Mini, and AWS — with Zixi providing the transport layer and letting Octal output to multiple formats and platforms without lock-in.

  • Operational confidence through real telemetry
    Real-time statistics from OBE, Zixi, and AWS gave Octal full visibility into bandwidth, latency, packet recovery, and performance, ensuring reliable director-ready feeds during a high-pressure live event.

  • Blueprint for premium live events
    The success of the Dior workflow has already driven adoption across other luxury fashion houses and corporate environments, demonstrating a repeatable model for high-bandwidth, multi-network contribution in fashion, sports, motorsport, and global studio workflows.

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