Encode once
Per-title ladders cut bandwidth without losing quality.
Video delivery architecture
Follow a single title from the studio to your TV — encoded once, pre-positioned everywhere, streamed to fit your connection. (A simplified take on Netflix's Open Connect.)
The high-bitrate source is ingested and validated — one pristine copy to derive everything else from.
The title is split into shots and encoded in parallel across a farm, building a quality ladder tuned by VMAF — many bitrates, multiple codecs (H.264, AV1).
During off-peak "fill windows" the encoded assets are pushed out to Open Connect appliances worldwide — before anyone presses play.
An Open Connect Appliance sits inside your internet provider, so the bytes start a short hop away — not across the ocean.
The player fetches the manifest and segments from the nearest appliance, adapting the bitrate in real time as your bandwidth shifts.
Per-title ladders cut bandwidth without losing quality.
Content is on the edge before you ever request it.
Appliances inside ISPs mean a short, fast last hop.
One delivery system — five lenses. Switch overlays to read a different aspect of the same map; click a module to open its component design.