Zixi Releases Commercially Available Implementation Of RIST

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Feb 20, 2019, 09:50 ET

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Zixi, the industry leader for enabling dependable, live broadcast-quality video over unmanaged and managed IP, today announced product availability for the emerging Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) initiative being developed from members of the Video Services Forum. The VSF is an international association comprised of service providers, users and manufacturers dedicated to interoperability, quality metrics and education for media networking technologies. Zixi, continuing a long history of advocating for and adopting open standards such as MPEG-DASH, MMT, SMPTE 2022-2 and 2022-7 (RTP), have called on over twelve years of experience delivering Emmy winning, mission critical solutions to prominent media companies, OEMs and service providers to be major contributors to the RIST Specification.

As an emerging standard in the early recommendation phase that over time as it develops may gain traction within the customer community, Zixi has been participating and adding to the recommendation in order to guarantee future interoperability with new clients as well as the company's 350+ existing install base around the world. Without impacting the recommendation, Zixi's enhanced RIST combines forward error correction, retransmission and congestion avoidance in an efficient way. An addition to the Zixi Broadcaster, TR 101 Network Analytics, Content Quality Analytics, hitless failover for over 99.999 reliability, network bonding, the ubiquitous view and reporting that Zixi ZEN Master provides, and many more features from the company's robust platform will be added.

"We have been engaging in many interoperability tests with all current members of the Video Services Forum working group," said Uri Avni, founder and CTO, Zixi. "The results are encouraging, and we will continue to support the initiative as it evolves."

Zixi will next be exhibiting in booth C55 at BVE in London February 26^th through the 28^th, then South Upper 10102 at NAB in Las Vegas April 8^th through the 11^th.

About Zixi
Zixi provides a cloud based and on-premise software platform that enables broadcast-quality video delivery over IP. The company offers the Zixi Platform for broadcasters, enterprises, over-the-top video providers, and mobile service providers around the world. The Zixi Platform makes it easy and economical for media companies to source, manage, localize, and distribute live events and 24/7 live linear channels in broadcast QoS, securely and at scale, using managed and unmanaged IP networks. Zixi provides enhanced control in large complex networks with ZEN Master, a cloud-based platform that provides visual tools to configure, orchestrate, and monitor live broadcast channels and events across industry protocols. Since 2007, the Zixi Enabled Network (ZEN) has grown to over 30 OEM and service providers and we serve well over 350 customers representing most of the top media brands around the world with thousands of channels delivered daily. zixi.com

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