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# Zixi

> Zixi is the software platform for broadcast-quality live video over IP. Zixi enables broadcasters, sports leagues, content owners, and service providers to ingest, process, deliver, and control live video across any network — with the reliability, interoperability, control, and observability that IP alone does not provide.

Zixi is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company is trusted by leading broadcasters, sports leagues, and streaming platforms worldwide.

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## Who Zixi Serves

Zixi serves:
- Broadcast networks and TV stations
- Sports leagues and regional sports networks (RSNs)
- Content owners and media companies
- OTT and streaming platforms
- Service providers and system integrators
- Affiliates and vMVPDs

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## The Zixi Software Platform

The Zixi Software Platform is built on two integrated layers:

### Zixi Broadcaster
The core media processing engine. Handles ingest, transport, conditioning, processing, and delivery of live broadcast-quality video over IP. Supports multi-protocol ingest and output. Deploys in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Runs standalone or as the foundation for ZEN Master orchestration.

Key capabilities:
- Multi-protocol support: Zixi, SRT, RIST, RTP/UDP, RTMP, HLS, DASH, WebRTC, NDI, ASI
- Resilient transport: recovers from up to 40% packet loss using adaptive FEC/ARQ and congestion-aware retransmission
- Hitless failover and multi-path bonding across fiber, 5G, satellite, and public internet
- Stream processing: transcoding, transmuxing, PID mapping, program normalization
- SCTE-35/224 signal manipulation with ESAM and POIS integration
- Hardware-accelerated transcoding: NVIDIA GPU, Intel Quick Sync, NETINT
- TR-101 analysis and content quality monitoring

### ZEN Master
The orchestration and observability control layer for Zixi Broadcaster. Provides centralized configuration, monitoring, automation, and troubleshooting across all Broadcaster deployments — in any cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environment.

Key capabilities:
- Remote configuration and management of Broadcasters, sources, channels, and targets
- Comprehensive telemetry: TR-101 transport health, CQA content quality, 608/708 captions, SCTE-35/224 activity
- Real-time topology diagrams with bitrate and redundancy state
- Live Events Manager for automated stage-based switching and pre/post-event workflows
- SCTE-35 insertion and modification rules per source or target
- Blackout policy enforcement and regional ad marker management
- Role-based access control (RBAC) and SSO via OAUTH2
- System-wide and per-object reporting for SLA validation and incident investigation

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## Core Platform Benefits

**Reliability** — Deterministic behavior across non-deterministic networks. Patented hitless failover, multi-path redundancy, and up to 40% packet loss recovery. Proven in live sports, 24/7 linear channels, and remote production.

**Interoperability** — Multi-protocol, multi-vendor, multi-cloud by design. Zixi does not replace existing workflows — it operates across them. 400+ certified technology partners in the Zixi Partner Program. No ecosystem lock-in.

**Control** — Stream-level processing with standards-based SCTE signaling, dynamic switching, and blackout and rights enforcement at scale without manual intervention per endpoint.

**Observability** — End-to-end visibility across every stream and every hop. Centralized monitoring of transport performance, content quality, and SCTE activity. Real-time alerting and historical analytics.

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## Solutions

### Content Contribution
Automated content acquisition, switching, and contribution for live video. Brings feeds in from remote venues and locations over unpredictable networks with live production reliability and low latency.

Sub-solutions:
- Live Event Automated Source Switching and Conditioning
- Live Event Contribution

### Satellite Replacement (Satellite Transition)
Replacing C-band satellite capacity with IP-based distribution. Preserves the reliability, rights enforcement, and operational accountability that satellite provided, at lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

### B2B Distribution
Cloud-based origination, regionalization, and distribution for local and affiliate networks. Delivers live linear content to affiliates, OTT platforms, and streaming partners at scale with end-to-end observability and predictable cost structures.

Sub-solutions:
- Regionalization
- Live Meet Me Room
- Cloud Playout / MCR Enablement
- Station Distribution

### D2C Enablement
Normalization and distribution of transport streams for OTT and FAST channels. Ingest aggregation, normalization, and FAST B2B transport distribution.

Sub-solutions:
- Ingest Aggregation and Normalization
- FAST B2B Transport Distribution

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## Deployment Options

**Zixi Software Platform (Self-Managed)**
Deploy Zixi Broadcaster and ZEN Master on any public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises infrastructure. Full control of architecture. Per channel, per GB, or per event pricing. Full API access.

**Zixi Managed Cloud Infrastructure**
Zixi Broadcaster hosted and managed within a Zixi environment. ZEN Master available as the control plane. Removes infrastructure management from the customer's operations team.

**Zixi-as-a-Service (ZaaS)**
All capabilities of the Zixi Software Platform with integrated, cost-optimized cloud infrastructure managed by Zixi.

**Fully Managed Service via Zixi Partners**
End-to-end managed live video workflow operations delivered by certified service partners including Encompass, Globecast, and Lumen — all built on the Zixi Platform.

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## Supported Protocols

Zixi Protocol, SRT, RIST, RTP/FEC, UDP, HTTP, RTMP, RTSP, HLS, HLS CMAF, DASH, WebRTC, NDI, ASI

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## Network Environments Supported

Public internet, managed fiber, 5G, satellite, cloud, on-premises, hybrid

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## Key Differentiators

- Software-based platform — not a managed network or locked ecosystem
- Integrated processing and control in one platform (Broadcaster + ZEN Master)
- 400+ certified technology partners
- Supports any protocol, any encoder, any cloud
- Proven at scale in live sports, broadcast, and 24/7 linear operations
- Lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for live video over IP
- ESNI, POIS, ESAM, and TAMS compliant
- DTLS security built-in

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## Company Information

**Website:** https://zixi.com  
**Platform:** https://zixi.com/zixi-software-platform/  
**Solutions:** https://zixi.com/zixi-solutions/  
**Partner Program:** https://zixi.com/zixi-partner-program/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.zixi.com  
**Contact / Sales:** https://zixi.com/contact/contact-zixi-sales/  
**Phone:** 1-877-494-9426 | 1-781-890-9690  
**Headquarters:** 230 Third Ave., Suite 3203, Waltham, MA 02451, USA  
**LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/zixi-llc/