1 – Production Facilities
- Encoders create 720p RTMP stream from HDMI / SDI video sources
- There can be up to 6 video streams for one webcast
- These streams are pushed to a CVC Video Server
2 – CVC Broadcast Head-end Video Servers
- Servers with high-end GPU card for video processing
- Use Wowza Streaming Engine software
- Incoming streams are transrated to create alternate video formats for adaptive-bit-rate (ABR) viewing (720p, 480p, 360p, audio only)
- All streams are pushed to Akamai Ingest
- All servers have identical configurations and streams can be redirected to any server
3 – Akamai Ingest
- Makes streams available for globally distributed edge servers
4 – Akamai Edge – HTTPS
- These streams are required for HTTPS delivery where the webcast is initiated with an HTTPS page
5 – Akamai Edge – HTTP
- These streams are customized to satisfy the caching requirements of SSC traffic shaping appliances installed in departmental perimeter networks
6 – Public Network
- Using our MAXPlayer/MAXPath software webcast viewers access the streams from the Akamai Edge servers
7 – Enterprise Network with Wowza Live Edge Server
- Our MAXPath software checks the network IP of the viewer and will be directed to a local caching server if it available. That server has a single connection to the Wowza server that is managing the streams for distribution locally. This eliminates Internet gateway congestion.
8 – Enterprise Network with Video Caching Appliance
- Those webcasts that can make use of a local video caching appliance will access the compatible stream necessary
9 – Control Center
- The control center can be any PC, MAC or smart device using a browser
- Wowza management software
- Individual streams can be monitored
- Server performance can be monitored
- Streams can be redirected if necessary
- Server logs can be viewed for errors and warnings
- Akamai Control Center
- Active streams reporting
- Access to support – if tagged urgent response can be within minutes