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Provision Your Own Live Streaming in Seconds!

The future of online experiences is here today with the ability to stream live events to viewers anywhere in the world. More and more broadcasters, sports organizations, educational institutions, faith-based organizations, movie studios and corporations are reaping the rewards of offering live event streaming on their website. Highwinds is now offering live HTTP streaming in beta through the Technology Access Program (TAP). To join TAP, click here.

Benefits of HTTP Live Streaming:

• True HTTP Streaming
  This is not HTTP "Progressive Download" or "Pseudostreaming" -- these new protocols are sophisticated, streaming-focused delivery mechanisms that simply use HTTP as their foundation.
• Scalability
  Allows Highwinds (and any CDN) to more effectively support live streaming via standard HTTP caches. Virtually all CDNs have more HTTP capacity available than RTMP capacity, which means that traffic can be distributed across a larger pool of servers. More servers means an increased ability to effectively absorb spikes in streaming traffic while maintaining a highly responsive and performant delivery service.
• Performance
  HTTP-chunked streaming benefits from the greatest amount of system tuning possible, based upon the relatively lower degree of complexity in the HTTP protocol vs. the RTMP protocol. The new HTTP-chunked protocols ride on top of standard HTTP, and inherit 100% of these benefits.
• Stability
  As a stateless delivery method, individual chunks within a single stream can be served off of multiple servers across the entire CDN, rather than each stream being tightly bound to a single server. This means that long-running streams can continue to be served successfully as the status of network routes and infrastructure servers changes over time.

Supported protocols:

• Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming
• Apple iPhone / iPad (HLS) Streaming
• Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming

Attributes of the solution:

• Chunking must be performed on the customer's own origin or encoder
• Initially, setup must be performed by Highwinds support team engineers to ensure that caching policies are correctly tuned for live video
• The origin must generate "clean" manifests that do not interfere with the CDN's ability to cache objects for standard HTTP delivery. Some origins (such as the Wowza Media Server) are known to inject data into the manifest that disrupts effective caching.

Notable Live Events
Highwinds has quickly become the global CDN of choice for massive live events. When the world leaders in news, entertainment, and sports put their high-profile events online, they turn to the Highwinds CDN to guarantee a great user experience for their fans. See below for a list of events that have been delivered using Highwinds Live Streaming.

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