The Control Plane for Live Broadcast Workflows
Livelink replaces traditional contribution and distribution operating models with a single, modern platform that runs across IP networks and cloud infrastructure.
Live broadcast workflows shouldn’t depend on manual routing, ticket systems, or vendor lock-in.
Livelink is the orchestration-first platform that gives broadcasters operational certainty, speed and resilience.
Core Principles
Choice
Multi-cloud and multi-protocol by design
- Crucial to platform development is the ability to orchestrate in any cloud environment for cost, geo-location or just familiarity with support for AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean and now Akamai Cloud.
- Full protocol support for RIST, SRT and Zixi for linear contribution and distribution workflows.
- Create RTMP, HLS and DASH workflows including full ABR ladder encoding stacks.
Control
A feature rich, entensive UI
- Operators can build entire IP workflows, including stream selection, processing and scheduling all from a single powerful user interface.
- Instantly extend, move, duplicate or stop resources as required with monitoring and statistics available at a glance or dive deeper for full analytics.
- Redeploy previously run end-to-end workflows in minutes.
Continuous Innovation
Benefit from constant development
- Our use of the platform for Managed Services generates a rich data set with deeper operator insight, driving practical improvements, valuable feature enhancements, and new tools with real-world applications.
- Customer lead feature and function development is shared with all customers leading to broader workflow efficiencies and cost savings.
Workflow Tools
Ingest & Sources
Protocol Flexibility
RIST, SRT (Caller/Listener), Zixi (Push/Pull) and RTMP modes supported for linear ingest from source encoders, cloud platforms or gateways.
Failover Groups
Manage input protection with 2022-7 hitless switching from coherent sources or build structured failover logic between different soruces.
Processing & Transformation
Source Transcoding
Create individual stream variations from custom resolutions up to UHD, change codecs, bitrates and more to fit your downstream distribution requirements.
Motion Compensated Standards Conversion
Produce high quality motion compensated standards converted variants directly in Livelink for premium live sports and high value events.
Advanced Audio Management
Isolate, combine, remove or shuffle audio tracks to create individual stream variants or build custom channels from individual left/right tracks.
ABR Ladder Encoding and Packaging
Create individual ABR ladder encoding profiles for OTT workflows and deliver as HLS, DASH, CMAF or publish to s3 Buckets.
Recording & File Conversion
Input stream recording to S3 Buckets and scalable fast file conversion to mp4 for downstream file based workflows.
Routing & Orchestration
Routing Engine
Hide the complexity of configuration behind human readable names so routing content to the right destination is straight forward and error free.
Scheduling
Our comprehensive scheduling module allows time based routing from source to any destination. Free up valuable MCR resources by automating event starts and stops.
One to Many Distribution
Send any source feed to multiple destinations regardless of protocol choice. Build complex distribution plans with different source variants and backup paths.
Multiviewers
Route sources into a multiviewer to create real-time usable monitoring channels for remote MCR facilities, executive command and control or onwads distribution.
Source Permissions
Grant permissions to third party organisations to share granular access viewing and routing capabilities of any source.
Monitoring & Management
Real Time Stream Monitoring
Sources and Destination stream monitoring for status, uptime, latency settings, bitrate, packet rate, RTT, packet loss and recovery.
Alerts & Notifications
Customise your own alert criteria and thresholds, visualise in platform, send to email addresses or monitor off platform with our Slack integration.
inSight - Custom Dashboards
Build the operational view your team needs. Our custom dashboards module puts you in control of how Livelink looks, feels and works for your operation.
Gateway - Edge Control
Gateway is a lightweight, secure software agent that lives on or beside any edge device, giving you full visibility and control from the cloud.
Automation and API
RESTful API
Fully published OpenAPI Specification Restful API for full automation of Livelink behind your existing platform front end.
Webhook Support
Webhooks enable real-time event notifications to external systems, eliminating polling overhead and ensuring immediate response to critical events.
Integration Capabilities
We welcome customer feedback on third-party integration needs and actively evaluate partnership opportunities that enhance our platform’s ecosystem.
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