Limelight improves low-latency video support

Limelight Networks is including new options to its Live Video Services that allow a variety of low-latency streaming choices.

The firm introduced a plan to develop its low-latency reside video supply choices to incorporate support for chunk switch encoded (CTE) media from low-latency CMAF derived media workflows. The firm mentioned low-latency CMAF permits broadcasters and content material distributors to ship reside content material with latencies as little as 2-3 seconds.

Limelight can also be introducing Live Push Ingest, a brand new service that lets content material suppliers have extra management over reside encoding workflows and cut back origin egress prices by pushing HLS, MPEG-DASH and low-latency CMAF streaming media segments and manifests for reside distribution. Live Push helps ingest of reside video from SD to 8K resolutions, provides scrubbing and DVR playback of content material, and contains redundant ingest capabilities with computerized failover to support reside occasions. Limelight mentioned the characteristic shall be straight built-in with its content material supply community.

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Using the brand new Live Push Ingest capabilities, Limelight mentioned chunk switch encoded media could be delivered to viewers whereas media segments are nonetheless being ingested.

Limelight additionally introduced it will likely be growing the capability of its Limelight Realtime Streaming answer in response to buyer demand.

The new options arrive after Limelight lately introduced EdgeFunctions, a brand new distributed serverless computing functionality, for its edge platform to permit builders to extra simply deploy code.

The firm mentioned that serverless structure will enable builders to not have to fret about underlying infrastructure, together with provisioning and managing servers or runtimes, and as a substitute “consider writing and deploying code to create or improve consumer utility experiences.”