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Edge Computing in Live Video: The Shift from Niche to Mainstream

For years, cloud computing has been central to live video workflows, but as the industry evolves, edge computing is becoming more prominent. Broadcasters and content creators are embracing edge solutions not as an alternative to cloud but as a complementary, integrated approach that unlocks new capabilities.

How Northwoods League Monetized Live Video with Ease and Scale with Videon’s LiveEdge® Solution

Learn how the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league with 30 teams implemented an ad insertion strategy with multiple streaming outputs, leveraging the LiveEdge® platform.

Edge App Spotlight: Amazon S3 Docker Container

Explore how LiveEdge® enhances video workflows with the Amazon S3 Docker container. Learn about use cases like live-to-VOD, catch-up TV, and scalable storage, and see how this edge app can streamline your live and on-demand video content management.

LiveEdge: Driving the Future of Enterprise-Grade Live Video Technology

Discover how Videon's LiveEdge® has evolved beyond the flagship LiveEdge® Node, introducing LiveEdge® Max and LiveEdge® 2Go to deliver robust, scalable solutions tailored for complex live video needs. Learn about our enterprise-grade enhancements that ensure versatility, security, and performance in diverse operational environments.

Heading to NAB 2024: Videon's Innovations and Collaborations in the Spotlight

Next week, the Videon team is excited to be in Las Vegas at NAB 2024 from April 13-17. Join us at Zixi's Partner Village, Booth W1401, where we will showcase new use cases on the LiveEdge® platform, specifically designed to enhance the Quality of Experience (QoE) while significantly reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for live sports.

Enhancing Live Streaming with LiveEdge’s Native WHIP Support

Videon announces native WHIP support in LiveEdge, significantly enhancing live streaming with reduced latency and increased efficiency. This blog explores WHIP's technical aspects, its advantages over traditional protocols, and its diverse applications in improving fan engagement and live video workflows.

Videon Expands Into High Density 12G Inputs and 4K P60 High Resolution Live Streaming

Videon announces the general availability of LiveEdge® Max powered by the Snapdragon® 865 5G Mobile Platform, and deeper density options. These additions to the LiveEdge family address the market demand for edge compute in higher density workflows and flexibility for remote production workflows. Enabling automated graphics insertion, ad marker insertion, real-time social media highlights to multiple 4Kp60 live video streams simultaneously.

Edge Computing in Live Video Increases Quality of Experience (QoE) while Reducing Cloud Costs, and Latencies

Discover how edge computing with Videon's LiveEdge® transforms live video production by enhancing Quality of Experience (QoE), reducing cloud costs and latencies. Learn about leveraging Docker, APIs, and a broad technology ecosystem for efficient, scalable, and extensible workflows. Dive into use cases like remote management, on-device graphic overlays, real-time social media highlights, and automated ad insertion for an in-depth look at the future of live video operations.

Choosing the Right LiveEdge® Device for Your Workflow

Explore the LiveEdge® Ecosystem for optimizing your live video workflows. With devices like LiveEdge® Node, Max, 2Go series, and Rack, find adaptable, intelligent solutions tailored to various needs from simple to complex, on-the-go to high-density multi-channel workflows. Enhance your ground-to-cloud workflow with customization options, AI/ML capabilities, and dedicated technical support for efficiency, power, and versatility.

Streamlining and Upleveling Live Video Production Workflows with the Power of Docker Containers

Discover how Docker containers revolutionize the world of live video production, offering a seamless and cost-effective solution for normalizing diverse feeds. Learn about the advantages of deploying Docker containers in live video environments, from ensuring consistent behavior across platforms to enhancing cloud workflows with high-quality video and richer data. Gain insights into the role of Docker containers in achieving low-latency, on-premises processing and their potential to elevate your live production capabilities. Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools to craft engaging live video content with agility and economic efficiency, all while harnessing the latest technological advancements in the field.

Future-Proof Your Live Video Workflows with Videon and Zixi’s Game-Changing Integration

Through the integration of Zixi Feeder into Videon’s LiveEdge® Ecosystem, broadcast and streaming operators are granted a more simplified and efficient workflow. Here, we delve into the benefits of the integration and provide a guide on setting it up.

Videon and M2A Media Announce Disruptive Integration, Forging the Future of Live Video Workflows

Videon, a disruptor in video edge computing, and M2A Media, innovators in cloud broadcast, are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking partnership that sees the integration of Videon's revolutionary LiveEdge® Ecosystem into M2A CONNECT, a feature rich tool for the acquisition and distribution of live video decreasing the technical time, resources and complexity on premises, enabling more live feeds at scale.

Videon Leads Global Live Video Edge Computing, Unveils LiveEdge® Max

Videon, a disruptor in video edge computing, announces the introduction of a groundbreaking innovation: LiveEdge® Max, making live video hybrid:cloud work at scale. This next-generation device, LiveEdge® Max, comes with four times the processing power and twenty times the machine learning capabilities compared to the flagship EdgeCaster. It's the latest addition to Videon's LiveEdge® Ecosystem and is designed to make 24/7 and event-based workflows smarter, more automated, easily monitored, and remotely controllable via LiveEdge® Cloud Control.

Unlocking the Power of HTML5 with LiveEdge® Graphix: A New Dawn for Live Video Workflows

HTML5 has evolved far beyond merely being the structural backbone of websites. It's now a powerful tool for rendering dynamic, visually-appealing content in a variety of applications—especially for live video. The introduction of LiveEdge® Graphix, a new native container of Videon's LiveEdge® Ecosystem, marks a significant step forward in leveraging HTML5's capabilities for live video.

Control Disparate Onsite Equipment and Normalize Metadata with Ease!

In the fast-paced world of production, remote control of disparate production equipment across locations is expensive, time consuming, and requires human capital. What if you could remotely manage your current onsite production equipment and first-mile workflows, in real-time, no matter the vendor, protocol, metadata, location?

Synchronizing Multi-Feed Sports Video via Edge Computing and KLV (SMPTE-336)

Live video streaming presents a multitude of revenue generating opportunities, from real-time advertising to graphic overlays to watch and wager. The cornerstone of these strategies lies in leveraging real-time data feeds to drive automation and triggers, enhancing viewer engagement and revenue. However, the task of synchronizing video and metadata from diverse sources, while addressing issues related to latency and automation, poses significant challenges. The critical question to address is: How can we accomplish efficient data normalization that is scalable, low latency, and cost effective? The answer to this complex problem is Videon’s LiveEdge® ecosystem - a new way to unlock monetization potential in real-time video workflows.

How Videon's EdgeCaster 2Go Performed During the Durability and Intensive Reliability Testing

At Videon, we take our commitment to delivering a quality product to our customers seriously. That’s why we recently put one of our newest products, the EdgeCaster 2Go, through an intensive reliability testing process at 15Gs. We wanted to make sure that it could stand up to vibration and other external forces without any problems or malfunctions. And after running the units and exercising its hardware components, we are proud to report that it performed flawlessly. 

Live Video Use Case: Harnessing Real-Time Sports Data to Automatically Insert Ad Markers Based on Predefined Rules

As live video becomes more ubiquitous, monetizing live feeds or driving incremental ad revenue to already monetized content presents a significant opportunity for a business's bottom line. However, solutions like OBS, encoders, and laptops make scaling monetization efforts cost-prohibitive and harder to scale. In this use case, we'll explore how you can capitalize on this trend, reduce workflow complexity, lower operational expenses, and enable scale by automating ad marker insertion using the Videon Compute Platform.

Industry Rapidly Adopts Videon’s Hybrid:Cloud Live Video Architecture to Transform Live Workflows

Videon is revolutionizing the live video industry with its groundbreaking Videon Compute Platform (VCP), encompassing LiveEdge® and the EdgeCaster family. In just 1.5 years, leaders and innovators across the industry have adopted the hybrid:cloud platform into their live video architecture, such as IMG Arena, FloSports, M2A Media, Nomad, Reality Check Solutions and Singular.Live, just to name a few.

Three reasons why you need LiveEdge® Cloud to scale your live video business and the features that make it possible

We’d like you to meet LiveEdge® CLOUD, the best way to remotely manage, monitor, and configure 10’s of thousands of connected Videon EdgeCasters at the video source.

Insert Dynamic Advertising Markers and Graphic Overlays into Low Latency Live Streams

With emerging hybrid:cloud architectures, utilizing edge computing at the video source, you can recapture this opportunity. Today, these new architectures make it easier, faster, and less expensive to insert personalized ads and graphics at speed and scale by augmenting the cloud and reducing the need for costly equipment on-premises.

Videon furthers its commitment to the environment by joining Greening of Streaming as the first video compute platform

Today, Videon furthers its commitment to the environment by joining Greening of Streaming with other leading video technology companies that are focused on addressing the growing concerns about the energy impact of the streaming sector.

Why professional live video operators are ditching OBS, laptops, and single-function encoders for Videon and Bitmovin’s end-to-end solution

As the live streaming market has exploded, so has the need for reliable, low-latency live streaming solutions that enable operators, influencers and live event producer to create live streams, regardless of their budget and skillset. While there are a wide range of solutions available, for many live video operators, open source tools like OBS running on a laptop or a single-function encoder are just not cutting it anymore. They can be unreliable, inflexible, and complex–hurdles that can hold you back from delivering high quality live streaming experiences. Also, there is no real redundancy for laptop-based solutions, which can be a deal-breaker for many workflows. Plus, the costs can quickly add up, when you take into account the additional IT and maintenance “tax” for these solutions.. 

Creating Solutions: Videon/Amazon IVS Loft Event Recap

We came together on Tuesday to meet with one another to discuss solutions in the interactive retail arena, Live Events space, Public Sector applications, and Video Production. We also covered advanced technology, including real-time machine learning enabling object detection and speech-to-text conversion.

Videon’s impressions of SoFi Stadium and the new era in-stadium experiences

NAB 2022 Observations

To achieve full democratization of content, we as technologists must change our thinking. We must remove our, “but that is how it is done” thinking to a thinking focused on hyper satisfying the customer. We must look at the overall supply chain of video from any source to any destination and understand where the system creates friction.

Industry Leaders Deploy Market-first Edge Apps at Video Source on Videon’s Platform

We're excited to announce that technology providers across the industry, including Net Insight, EZDRM, Synamedia, Zixi, V-Nova, Red5 Pro, Techex, THEO Technologies, Livepeer, and others, are deploying edge apps using LiveEdge® Compute to simplify on-premise-to-cloud workflows for media companies, cloud providers, and integrators.

Phenix and Videon Partner To Deliver Real-Time Streaming At Scale

Together, we can deliver interactive streaming with less than ½ second of end-to-end latency and synchronized viewing–and that’s just the beginning.

Livin’ on the Edge Podcast, Episode 1

This week in the Livin’ On The Edge Podcast, our very own Tristan Avelis sits back down with Todd Erdley and Paul Brown to dive deep into the world of tech trade shows. They explore how we find new tech and what we do to transform Videon and the industry based on that knowledge.

Changing the Game: How Second Screens are Transforming the In-Stadium Experience

By incorporating ULL streaming into the stadium experience, every seat can be an immersive experience.

Videon adds board of advisors and bolsters go-to-market team to accelerate video edge computing platform adoption

Videon adds board of advisors and bolsters go-to-market team to accelerate video edge computing platform adoption. Seven additions to senior leadership team and board of advisors

Videon Raises Additional $9M to Transform Live Video Streaming with the Power of Edge Computing

Along with my partners and founders of Videon, Todd Erdley, and Paul Brown, and our CFO Harry Solomon, we are proud to announce that we have raised a further $9M bringing total investment in the past seven months to $16.3M, led by our good friends at Alter Venture Partners with participation from Voyager Capital, Fortson VC, Bruce Chizen, and Cercano Management.

Empowering Evolution and Creating Transformation: Videon’s Developer Community

Through listening, learning, and innovating, we elected to “containerize” EdgeCaster. No longer is Edgecaster an encoder so typical of what the industry has been forced to use.

Introducing our Podcast: Living on the Edge

Our new podcast explores changes in the live video industry and focuses on how we can aid in its growth.

CES 2022: Most Innovative Developments

CES is not an easy show to attend. With thousands of vendors, sometimes more than one hundred thousand attendees, and venues spread over much of the Las Vegas strip, you have to be game on. Or, you need to know how to read the show in order to spot themes that could be transformative.

What Was it Like to Attend CES in 2022 During COVID?

Since everyone has been asking me if CES 2022, “was it worth it?” I decided to write a few blog entries describing my experience and the information I brought back regarding the future of our industry.

Live Video Trends on the Rise in 2022: Direct-to-Consumer, Automation, and Immersive Experiences

At Videon, we always look to the future. If the industry buzzword is low latency, you better believe we’ve already been talking about it for years–and are already focused on topics that will be evolving in ‘22 and beyond. Here are our predictions for trends in sports broadcasting in 2022.

The Future of Engagement: Videon’s Take on Low Latency Streaming and Live Video Interaction at the 2021 SVG Summit

At this year’s SVG Summit, we at Videon discussed the future of the industry and its content

Above and Beyond: Videon is AS9100 Certified

Since 2010, Videon has been AS9100 certified, which is the international Quality Management System standard for the Aviation, Space, and Defense industry. We put ourselves through the rigorous process of achieving this Certification because we want our customers to have complete confidence in the products and services we offer.

Videon reinvents live video streaming with LiveEdge®

Videon, a leader in edge computing at the point of video origin, announces the launch of LiveEdge, a premium platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution that adds feature enhancements, customization options, and intelligent automation to Videon’s video compute platform. With LiveEdge, users can bridge the gap between cloud and on premise devices to create tightly integrated custom orchestrations. This reduces video streaming complexity, latency, and cloud video processing costs, while delivering higher quality and reliability.

VIDEON RAISES $7.3 MILLION SERIES A FUNDING LED BY VOYAGER CAPITAL TO ACCELERATE GROWTH AND INNOVATION IN LIVE VIDEO STREAMING

Videon, a leader in edge computing for video, has raised $7.3 million in Series A funding, led by Voyager Capital. The funding will allow Videon to expand its senior leadership, engineering, marketing, and sales teams, enabling it to bring its unique video compute platform to more customers worldwide. Rob Green in Seattle joins as CEO to drive expansion plans and build new partnerships.

SVG Interview – Videon on Linking Cloud Capabilities to On Premise

Videon’s Todd Erdley recently sat down with SVG to discuss how bringing cloud capabilities to the on-premise video source can and already does benefit the live video production community, in particular the sports industry. Check out SVG’s post about this interview here.

Videon announces its inclusion in Akamai’s Media Technology Program and the EdgeCaster Encoder Passing Akamai MSL 4.x Qualification Testing

Videon is proud to announce its inclusion in the Akamai Media Technology Partner program through its offering of EdgeCaster, a 4K30 HEVC/H.264 encoder that supports low latency, HTTP streaming. In conjunction with being a member of the Media Technology Partner program, Videon is also pleased to announce EdgeCaster has achieved qualification as an Akamai MSL 4.x qualified encoder. Streaming customers can now use Videon’s EdgeCaster with Akamai’s Media Services Live 4 as a direct ingest from EdgeCaster to support ultra-low latency HLS and DASH workflows with chunked transfer CMAF support. Additionally, Videon’s EdgeCaster supports multiple bit rate representations, eliminating the need for costly and time laden cloud transcoding/transrating. Now that Videon’s EdgeCaster is Akamai qualified, Videon customers can stream directly to Akamai, a feature that non-qualified encoders cannot do.

Videon VersaStreamer in Augmented Reality Solutions

What happens when you combine video streaming with augmented reality (AR) technology using smartglasses, cameras, and IoT sensors? Augumenta, a Finnish software company, makes exciting new industrial applications that help people on the factory floor and out in the field perform better as remote experts. They chose Videon VersaStreamer to do the high-quality video encoding of data coming from fixed cameras and build it in their product called SmartEyes. Tero Aaltonen, CEO and one of the founders of Augumenta, brings us to the world of industrial augmented reality.

Red5 Pro and Videon Enable a 200ms Real Time Latency End to End Workflow Solution

Red5 Pro and Videon today announce a WebRTC workflow using Red5 Pro Real Time Streaming platform in conjunction with Videon’s VersaStreamer 4K Encoder resulting in a 200ms end to end latency. The workflow addresses the rapidly growing need for high-quality streaming that benefits from real-time latency.

4 Steps to Configure Videon’s Live Streaming Encoder with Low Latency Video

Low latency remains a key component in any live streaming application. Video chat, distance learning, live auctions, event broadcasts and many more use case cases all need fast stream delivery to ensure a positive user experience. The challenge lies in providing low latency that is consistent and scalable. Complicating matters further, is the fact that live streaming video is itself nuanced with many subtle yet impactful considerations that must be taken into account.

Rexcel and Videon Livestream Taipei Opera to Over 50,000 Viewers

Rexcel Nippon Launches Simple LaaS (Livestream-as-a-Service) using Videon’s EdgeCaster to Successfully Livestream Historic Taipei Opera to Over 50,000 Viewers Worldwide in a Month

Near-Instant Volleyball Streaming with the Videon EdgeCaster

The women’s tournament of the 2019 FIVB World Cup was streamed live from Yokohama, Japan last September and drew an estimated audience of more than 30,000 peak concurrent viewers and over 500,000 unique viewers. The event provided a perfect showcase for Videon’s EdgeCaster ultra-low latency (ULL) encoder working in a live streaming video workflow using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

re:Invent 2019 Recap: The Year of AI/ML

re:Invent may have happened over a month ago, but what better time to touch on Amazon Web Service’s inaugural conference and our key takeaways than at the start of the new year… Or halfway through the second month of the new year…

AWS Ultra Low Latency Video Workflow

You can download AWS’ presentation on ultra-low latency workflows below by clicking on the presentation title below.

AWS Elemental Will Highlight Videon EdgeCaster 4K in Low-Latency Streaming Demo at IBC2019

Our award-winning EdgeCaster 4K edge compute encoder will be central to an ultra-low latency demonstration by AWS Elemental at IBC2019 booth 5.C80. The demo will feature the Videon EdgeCaster interfacing directly with AWS Elemental MediaStore and Amazon Cloudfront to achieve latency of less than 3 seconds of latency, at scale, over public internet connections using HLS and DASH streaming that’s compatible with standard player options.

Videon Products at IBC2019

At IBC2019, Videon will showcase its award-winning EdgeCaster edge compute encoder. Videon’s EdgeCaster is the industry’s first HTTP CMAF streaming encoder that includes multiple-bit-rate outputs in support of ultra-low-latency streaming solutions for broadcast, pro AV, and prosumer applications — at an industry-leading price point.

Enabling Low-Latency Interactive Streaming Applications for Worldwide Audiences

For media organizations to launch interactive services that increase audience engagement and grow their subscriber base, it is vital to overcome two significant obstacles: high latency and unsynchronized video.

Videon CEO Todd Erdley to Present at Expo in Tokyo

In a presentation at the Video Communications Expo (VCOM2019) in Tokyo, Videon founder and CEO Todd Erdley will discuss how recent advances in edge compute encoding technologies are enabling affordable, low-latency, interactive live streaming for a wide range of emerging markets and applications. Leveraging his uniquely rich expertise in pioneering foundational media technologies, Erdley will present “Low-Cost, Low-Latency, Interactive Live Streaming Powered by Edge Encoding” at 3:30 p.m. on July 17 in the Aomi Exhibition Hall.

BlueFrame and Videon Enable Live Streaming Productions

BlueFrame Technology and Videon announced today a technology integration aimed at simplifying live video streaming productions involving contributions from multiple sources and remote locations. The integration of Videon’s RESTful API into BlueFrame’s Remote Truck™ distributed production application greatly streamlines the contribution of content from remotely located Videon streaming encoders to the BlueFrame player platform.

Videon Products at InfoComm 2019

At InfoComm 2019, Videon will showcase its award-winning EdgeCaster Edge Compute Encoder that is ideal for applications and integration with solutions requiring low latency streaming. With EdgeCaster products, users can stream among buildings, between campuses, or around the world using a single device.

Sergio Epelbaum Transforms Live Surgical Streaming With Sonora

Prensario Magazine recently published a great article about how Sergio Epelbaum, founder of Argentina’s Vision Producciones, has been using Videon’s VersaStreamer to transform live streaming from the operating room during demonstrations at ophthalmological conferences. Thanks Prensario! [Read the Prensario article here in Spanish!]

nanocosmos and Videon Deliver Ultra Low Latency Workflow

nanocosmos and Videon today announced that they are partnering to provide an ultra low latency live streaming workflow based on Videon’s edge compute encoder technology and nanocosmos’ ultra low latency live streaming nanoStream Cloud. Enabling about one-second end-to-end latency and two-way active engagement, the new live streaming workflow will support emerging interactive applications such as auctions, sports, and other live events.

2019 NAB Show Product Preview Videon

Videon will showcase its latest innovations in live streaming solutions for both the broadcast and event streaming markets. The company will highlight two innovative new product lines: the VersaStreamer encoder and the award-winning EdgeCaster edge compute encoder.

NexPlayer and Videon Leverage AWS to Build an End-to-End Workflow

NexPlayer and Videon today announced support for the synchronization of OTT video arrival times for all end users, featuring interoperability between NexPlayer’s Android and iOS player SDKs, AWS Elemental MediaStore and Amazon CloudFront, and Videon’s edge compute encoders.

Videon at NAB 2019

Videon will showcase its latest innovations in live streaming solutions for both the broadcast and event streaming markets. The company will highlight two innovative new product lines: the VersaStreamer encoder and the award-winning EdgeCaster edge compute encoder.

IABM Interview at BVE 2019

The IABM stopped by our booth at BVE 2019. Josh Cetnar, Business Development Specialist at Videon, breaks down the new EdgeCaster and VersaStreamer product lines.

Videon’s EdgeCaster Earns Best of Show Award at ISE 2019

Videon, a cutting-edge developer of 4K and HD streaming products that enable users to move media from any source to any screen, today announced that its new EdgeCaster edge compute encoder earned a Best of Show award at ISE 2019 from AV Technology Europe.

AWS Elemental Blog Features Videon Low-Latency Solution

AWS Elemental recently posted a blog on their site about low-latency streaming. It states: What if every broadcaster (no matter the size) could achieve less than 4 seconds of latency at scale? An entirely new set of applications would become possible. It goes on to explain how this is possible with the AWS Elemental and Videon.

Ultra-low Latency with Amazon Web Services: How Low Will It Go?

Videon, as an AWS Elemental technology partner, is now enabling worldwide video distribution in under four seconds. This refers to the total time difference between video capture at the camera and playback on a screen such as a TV, phone, or tablet, also known as glass-to-glass latency.

The Bandwidth Problem

We have been on a multi-week exploration of the dynamic changes happening in streaming. We have talked about the evolution of video standards. We have talked about the workflow. So where does this one word, bandwidth, come into play? Let’s walk back a bit to see just how big of a problem bandwidth is.

4K: Revolutionary, Evolutionary, or What?

As you likely know, Videon has been in the digital video business for over twenty years and with that comes a lot of exposure to a lot of different technology.I recently got back from a major industry trade show (NAB – National Association of Broadcasters) and I wanted to share with you my observations and thoughts regarding technology and market trends associated with the ongoing evolution of digital video solutions. To start this, let’s first think about the revolution and evolution of digital video by rolling back the clocks to the start of time in the world of digital video.

It’s All About Workflow. Duh!

We recently attended the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB trade show. It was a huge coming out party for the overall 4K workflow as the number of announcements regarding pricing and products showed a very, very, very interesting trend.

Videon Announces Interoperability of Greylock 1080p H.264 Encoder/Decoder with AWS Elemental MediaLive

Videon, a leader in live streaming video encoding technology and cutting-edge 4K HEVC/H.264 solutions, is integrating its solutions with offerings from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ensure interoperability between its Greylock and Sonora products (1080p, H.264 encoder/decoder) and AWS Elemental MediaLive video processing.