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Jet-Stream Airflow - Next-generation MultiCDN

Airflow Multi-CDN Jet-Stream Platform

Jet-Stream is the award winning streaming platform for leading broadcasters, publishers, sports clubs, events, studios, advertising agencies, video producers and brands.

The inventors of live streaming

On November 4 1994, we produced the world’s first live stream, ever. We invented live streaming.

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Jetstream overview

Feature List Airflow CDN

STREAMING

Read http-https streaming…

Apple HTTP live streaming (HLS)
MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS)
Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
HTTP progressive download with trick play

Legacy streaming protocols

Read RTMP-RTSP-MMS streaming…

RTMP (ADOBE FLASH)
RTMP (ADOBE FLASH)
RTSP
MMS (WINDOWS MEDIA)
ICECASTING

Formats supported

MP4
MP3
MOV
WMV
FLV
SMIL
and many others

Video codecs supported

H.264 AVC
H.265 HEVC
ON2 VPX
and many others

Audio codecs supported

AAC
HE-AAC
AC3
E-AC3
MP3
and many others

SECURITY

Read Broadcast Grade Security…

SECURE PLATFORM

HTTPS (SSL) Secure portal
HTTPS (SSL) APIs

SECURE DELIVERY

HTTPS (SSL) delivery
Let’s Encrypt support
Transparent to DRM

TOKEN BASED ACCESS CONTROL

Manifest+video segment anti deep linking enforcement
Active request router bypass protection
Instantly lock individual files, streams and remote origins
Token based access control from your portal(s)

GEO FENCING

Pre-configured continent groups
Create and manage custom geo fence groups
MaxMind powered
Instantly geo fence individual files, streams and remote origins
Combine locking and geo fencing

INTELLIGENT ORIGINS

Read about Intelligent Origins…

File ingest protocols

VOD ingest via FTP (TLS)
VOD ingest via Webdav (HTTPs)
Automatic redundancy replication
MD5 hash replication integrity control
Download root
Streaming root

Content analysis

Audio / video size
Audio / video duration
Audio / video bit rate

Live streaming protocols

RTMP PUSH AND PULL
RTSP PUSH AND PULL
ICECAST HTTP(S) PUSH AND PULL
RTSP Windows Media streaming
HTTP remote origins / encoders pull
Redundant encoding with automatic failover

Realtime transmuxing

live and on-demand content
HLS
MPEG DASH
Adobe HDS
Microsoft Smooth Streaming

Live stream recording (beta)

Ultra fast and scalable live stream recording
Manual and scheduled recording
Multi bit rate HLS
Recording as (multi bit rate) MP4 files
Instantly available as downloadable and streaming VOD
Fully integrated service
Chainable with VOD transcoding engine

VOD transcoding

Ultra fast, scalable MP4 transcoding engine
High quality transcoding engine
Optimised for mobile and high end devices
Custom profiles management
Instant high quality original file publishing
Dynamic adaptive multi bit rate publishing
Fully integrated service

Bit rate limitations

no limitations in bit rates
no limit in number of bit rates

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Asset stream management

Paged listings of media assets
Paged listings of live channels
Paged listings of remote origins

Live Stream Management

Read about event live streaming…

View listings of all television and radio channels
Instantly provision new live streams
Select encoding setup (RTMP, RTSP, push, pull, icecast etc)
Live stream sub-user rights assignment
Multi bit rate live streaming setup
Redundant encoding setup
Automatic encoder credentials generation
Encoders IP address white listing feedback

REMOTE ORIGINS

Instantly provision and manage HTTP(s) remote origins
Redundant origin support with dynamic failover
Virtual hostname support
Jet-Stream Origin Shield protection
IP address white listing feedback

Metadata

custom file and stream name
size
bit rate
resolution
duration (vod)
creation / upload date + time

Control

Group multiple bit rates into logical assets and streams
Delete individual assets, channels & remote origins
Purge caches for individual assets, channels & remote origins
Override Boost / Turbo Boost algorithms
Mass select and process commands

Security controls

Instant per title locking
Instant per title geo fencing

RECORDING (optional, beta)

record multiple live (HLS) streams
schedule recording
all bit rates are recorded
recorded streams are automatically uploaded to your account as MP4 files

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

Reseller features

provision and manage accounts
assign shared or dedicated storage, intake, core, overflow, edge and MultiCDN servers to individual accounts
Manage boost/turbo boost business rules per account
Monitor storage and traffic usage per account
White labeled GUI
Realtime overall usage statistics

Traffic usage APIs

Account owner features
Account user details
Account provisioning details
Storage and traffic usage reporting
Extensive user friendly documentation

Manage sub users

Create and manage sub users

Limit sub user rights

encoding
live stream publishing
ingest
content management
reports
APIs

NETWORK AND PLATFORM

Read about Screaming Performance…

Read about Broadcast Grade Uptime…

Read about The Scalable Platform…

DELIVERY TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED

Jet-Stream tuned NGINX servers with thundering herd protection, intelligent caching and secure HTTP adaptive streaming session management
Jet-Stream tuned Wowza Media Servers as our transmuxing and RTMP / RTSP engines
Jet-Stream tuned Icecast servers for your radio channels
Jet-Stream tuned Apache servers for http downloads
Jet-Stream tuned Windows Media servers (lol yes, Windows Media!)

PLATFORM

Jet-Stream software powered CDN
Redundantly hosted at multiple European sites
100% renewable energy high efficiency data centers
Tiered scalable platform
High performance physical servers
redundant live stream ingest server farms
redundant origin shields
redundant long-tail high performance storage and server farms
Platform extendable with private origins
Platform extendable with private edges
redundant popular content RAM serving farms (“boost”)
MultiCDN layer (“turbo boost”)

Integrated MultiCDN vendors

Akamai
Amazon
Fastly
Highwinds
Leaseweb
Level3
Verizon

GEO LOAD BALANCING TECHNOLOGY

Jet-Stream active request routing farm
Lowest latency load balancing (<1ms per request)
Enforced per-request geo optimised load balancing
Checks over 12 parameters including costs, edge performance, availability, capacity, load, proximity, access rights, geo fencing
Response can adapt to URL parameter instructions
Suggests routes for other request routers on behalf of the requesting end user
Individual asset request popularity tracking
Integration with third party performance services
Jet-Stream MultiCDN load balancing algorithm
Business rules and resources configurable per account

PUBLISHING

Read about Jet-Stream Video Player…

PUBLISHING OPTIONS

URL publishing: no DNS knowledge needed
Embed code wizard for all most popular devices
Stream to mobile devices, browsers, players, boxes, tv’s and consoles
Customisable parameters in publishing URL
Unlimited views Jet-Stream Player bundled
Ultra lightweight, ultra fast
No trackers, GDPR compliant
iFrame embeddable and hosted player
Full 4K UHD video playback
Native HTML5
Plays HLS and Icecast streams
360° VR
Set start time
Preview thumbnails
Poster image
VAST ad integration
Auto play, also (muted) on IOS
Full screen
Subtitling
Use your own custom video player
Read more…

STATUS, STATISTICS AND REPORTS

Read about Reports, Statistics and Analytics…

STATUS REPORTS

Realtime request statistics per title
Realtime popularity status indicator per title (long-tail, boost, MultiCDN turbo boost)
Concurrent viewers (live streams)
Live source connection status
404 request error reporting

REALTIME STATISTICS

24 hour requests origins pie chart and graph
24 hour most popular on-demand assets pie chart
24 hour most popular live-streams pie chart
24 hour popularity and delivery infrastructure pie charts
404 request errors

HISTORICAL AUDIENCE REPORTS

Customisable reporting GUI
CDN access logs powered data
Recent viewers
View trends
Geo viewers map
Viewers log
Locations log (continents, countries, regions, providers, cities)
Drill down into views, viewing time, usage, geographies
Analyse technical client information (devices, browsers)
And much more…

AUTOMATION API

Read about Workflow Automation…

DEVELOPERS

Secure unified API to automate everything mentioned above
XML feeds to automate status updates
Traffic reporting API
Historical usage reporting GUI
Active request router integration
Developer friendly documentation
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