There’s an emerging pattern in the broadcast industry and beyond; when we want the best out of a network, we don’t turn to TCP. Imagine a boss who stood over you ensuring every email you send got a reply. Imagine a boss who would stop you sending any more emails if the replies to your…
Category: Streaming
RIST – Reliable Internet Streaming Transport. Sounds good! Tell me more…
RIST overcomes the propensity of the internet to lose packets. It makes possible very-high-bandwidth, low-latency contribution over the internet into a studio or directly into the cloud as part of a streaming workflow. Here we delve deeper and find some talks which explain more.
Why is Low-Latency Streaming Hard?
The streaming industry is on an ever-evolving quest to reduce latency to bring it in line with, or to beat linear broadcast. When streaming started, latency of a minute or more was not uncommon and whilst there are some simple ways to improve that, matching the latency of digital TV, around 5 seconds, is not…