We build live IP video infrastructure for broadcasters who can’t afford to get it wrong.
Cerberus Tech is a UK-based technology company specialising in live IP video distribution. Our platform, Livelink, is used by broadcasters, sports rights holders, live event producers and streaming services to move live video reliably, at scale, without the overhead of legacy infrastructure.
Livelink gets live video from any source to every destination; broadcasters, affiliates, OTT, social and betting partners over IP. Every workflow provisioned, executed and torn down clean.
Fully managed live video used to be heavy to put up and heavier to take down.
Fixed fibre and booked satellite capacity, held together with bolt-on plugins, scripts and a ticket queue for every change. It stays standing, just. And the bill turns up later, in a shape nobody can read.
A ticket for every new taker
Paying for capacity whether it’s on air or not
Nobody quite sure what’s still running
01 · Provision
Build a workflow in minutes.
Pick the feed up at the source via any IP protocol, transcode it, package it and hand it to every taker. Each piece snaps into place when you need it. Just a few clicks, and you’re live.
+Source — the venue
+Transcode and package
+Broadcaster, OTT, social, betting partner
02 · Orchestrate
Any protocol in. Any protocol out.
Take it in however the source can send it, and deliver it however each taker wants it. One feed to many. Main and backup. A scheduled window for Saturday’s fixture, or 24/7 for a channel.
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03 · Run
Monitoring, alerts, stats and billing. Built in.
Every stream is tracked the same way, whether it runs for an hour or a year. You focus on the content. We make sure every frame gets where it needs to go.
Live statsAlertsUsage billing
04 · Tear down
Torn down clean.
When the final whistle goes, the whole workflow comes down with it. No manual clean-up, no residual state, no surprises.
Pay only for what’s running.
05 · Redeploy
Redeploy a whole workflow in minutes.
Next fixture, same takers? Bring the same workflow back with the same sources, same settings, same destinations and be on air again without rebuilding a thing by hand.
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Proof · built when it mattered
Every one of these was a workflow.
Thirty minutes to kick-off.
Away games normally came in by satellite, and the weather had other ideas. Celtic TV called us 30 minutes before kick-off. We picked the feed up at BT Tower, encoded it at 10 Mbps and delivered it straight to the decoders already at Celtic Park. Stable for kick-off. Viewers didn’t notice a thing — and Celtic TV paid for the match, nothing more.
Satellite was failing in bad weather. Celtic TV called 30 minutes before kick-off; we took the feed from BT Tower to the decoders at Celtic Park. Viewers didn’t notice a thing.
Clash on the Dunes, Al-Diriyah. Livelink carried a week of build-up — workouts, pressers, weigh-in — to BT Tower for global affiliates, as backup to satellite. On fight night severe weather made the satellite intermittent. Livelink switched in as main for the whole undercard and all twelve rounds of Joshua v Ruiz Jr.
A week of build-up to BT Tower as backup to satellite. On fight night the weather turned and Livelink went to main — the undercard and all twelve rounds of Joshua v Ruiz Jr.
Sky Racing, Tabcorp’s media arm, distributes every Australian racing feed. International takers used to be served over fixed fibre, with feeds decoded and re-encoded back at HQ. Now Tabcorp runs Livelink itself as its aggregation and distribution point in the cloud: SRT, RIST, Zixi and RTMP, wired into its own systems by API, with transcoding for social spun up when it’s needed. Pay-as-you-go, and no round trip through HQ.
Sky Racing’s feeds used to go abroad over fixed fibre, via HQ. Now Tabcorp runs Livelink itself and sends them straight to every taker, pay-as-you-go.
When satellite coverage was reconfigured, British forces at some overseas sites were about to lose BFBS television and radio. Cerberus Tech designed an IP multiplex service instead, main and backup, and runs it around the clock to five international sites, many with limited infrastructure. It has since grown from three 24/7 multiplexes to five, with return feeds from two remote TV stations.
Satellite coverage was reconfigured. Cerberus Tech now runs BFBS TV and radio over IP to five international sites, main and backup, grown from three multiplexes to five.
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