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The path to building a decentralized CDN foundation for a digital economy that thrives on real-time video-infused use cases is now in sight. As explained in a previous blog, highly granular distribution of cloud computing with newfound flexibility in cloud-based data management has set the stage for linking instantaneous computer processing with Red5’s Experience Delivery… Continue reading How Decentralized CDNs Can Transform the Digital Economy

Over-the-top (OTT) streaming allows content to be delivered to viewers over the internet so that it can be accessed anytime, anywhere. Traditionally, OTT would make use of a content delivery network (CDN) designed to provide on-demand video, but as live streaming increases in popularity, we are seeing the scales begin to shift in favor of… Continue reading Live Streaming Video? 5 Reasons Why a Cloud-Based Video Streaming Service Is a Better Choice Than a CDN

New developments pushing the intersection between cloud computing and real-time video streaming to rooftops, curbsides, and factory floors are bringing the world closer than ever to the next era in digital commerce. Already, the benefits of video-rich interactivity are driving surging demand for network connectivity that does away with the high latency, unidirectional, and other… Continue reading Combining Real-Time Edge Computing and Video Streaming

Red5 Pro was recently featured in an article on Panorama Audiovisual, a Spanish-language site that explores trends in film, media, and broadcasting. Roughly 30% of Red5 Pro’s customer base is in the EMEA region, with a heavy concentration in Europe. We pride ourselves on serving an international user base, and this piece explores our plans… Continue reading Red5 Pro Sets Sights on a Global User Base

Significant internet service disruptions triggered by the latest AWS outage have once again made the case that providers of live-streamed video can only attain the persistent performance they’re looking for through reliance on a multi-cloud streaming infrastructure. The widely reported outage centered in the AWS US-EAST-1-Region over several hours on December 7 caused disruptions impacting… Continue reading AWS Outage Underscores Need for Cross-Cloud Streaming Architecture

We are very excited to announce the partnership of Red5 Pro and Net Insight! Together we are able to bring you a powerful, low-latency, end-to-end workflow for next-generation live content. Visit the full press release.

The global shift to real-time video streaming will soon be drawing new support from advances in hardware acceleration that enable radical reductions in the time consumed processing content for transmission and reception over next-generation pipelines. As evidenced by performance metrics attained by distributors operating over Red5’s Experience Delivery Network (XDN) infrastructure worldwide, it’s now possible… Continue reading Hardware Acceleration Fuels Real-Time Video-Streamed Use Cases

(Updated: 12/16/2021) The zero-day gremlins are at it again, this time with a nasty Log4j/Log4j2 vulnerability that’s been dubbed Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228). First things first: Red5 offerings, including both the open source and the Red5 Pro closed source extensions, are not vulnerable as we do not use the affected libraries. Log4Shell allows a specially-crafted log message… Continue reading Red5 Marked “Safe” from Log4j Zero-Day

Red5 Pro’s platform just became even more efficient with the addition of V-Nova’s MPEG-5 LCEVC codec enhancement. LCEVC can provide better quality with a lower load, saving money, increasing reach, and creating a better end-user experience. Visit OTTVerse for the full story. Parties interested in a demonstration of the latest Red5 Pro platform with LCEVC… Continue reading Red5 Pro adds V-Nova’s LCEVC

A sudden turn of events in smart TV development is freeing service providers to bring real-time video interactivity into play for breakthroughs in user experience on home entertainment’s new center stage. Comcast kicked off the potentially disruptive trend in early October when it announced that Sky, its recently acquired UK-based subsidiary, was introducing a smart… Continue reading Smart TV App Development Enters Real-Time Streaming Domain