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Promotional banner titled "NETINT VPU PRODUCT SELECTION Buyer's Guide." with a collage on the right showcasing various NETINT Quadra Video Processing Unit hardware products and components against a light background with diagonal red and blue accents
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How to Specify a VPU: The 2026 Buyer’s Guide for Video Infrastructure Leaders

Download NETINT's 2026 VPU Buyer's Guide to compare Quadra VPUs, AV1 hardware encoding, video transcoding hardware, and deployment options.

NETINT·Sep 7, 2026·9 min
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Dark promotional graphic titled "Transforming Live Streaming TV, One Rack at a Time." It features a metallic server chassis alongside vibrant, flowing blue and pink light streams, with a illuminated sports stadium stadium blurred in the background.
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Transforming Live Streaming TV, One Rack at a Time

Discover how Zapping scaled Live Streaming with NETINT VPUs, cutting server count, reducing power consumption, and improving low-latency OTT delivery.

NETINT·Sep 2, 2026·7 min
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Promotional graphic featuring NETINT and Arcadian logos titled "VPU Evaluation to Production Deployment." The dark background showcases a illuminated blue glass bridge spanning across two rocky cliffs, supported by transparent red pillars labeled "VPU," alongside a red "VPU Ecosystem IBC Edition" badge in the upper left.
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From Concept to Production: A Field-Proven Methodology for Deploying NETINT Quadra VPUs

Learn how Video Efficiency combines VPUs and MPEG-5 LCEVC to reduce bitrate, lower CDN costs, and improve streaming quality at scale.

NETINT·Aug 31, 2026·10 min
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Promotional banner featuring NETINT and MPEG-5 LCEVC (Powered by V-Nova) branding, titled "The Next Layer of Video Efficiency." The dark background displays a glowing red VPU processor chip emitting data streams through a transparent glass filter pane onto a display showing a live stadium sports match, accompanied by a "VPU Ecosystem IBC Edition" badge.
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Pairing VPUs with MPEG-5 LCEVC Delivers The Next Layer of Video Efficiency 

Learn how Video Efficiency combines VPUs and MPEG-5 LCEVC to reduce bitrate, lower CDN costs, and improve streaming quality at scale.

NETINT·Aug 28, 2026·10 min
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Promotional graphic featuring NETINT and Wowza logos with text reading "Efficient Encoding in Real Workflows." It includes a "VPU Ecosystem IBC Edition" badge and a 3D glass cube core with a red play button connected to icons for cloud, mobile, gaming, audio, and Wi-Fi.
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Maximizing Encoding Efficiency in Live Streaming Workflows

Learn how Wowza Streaming Engine and NETINT VPUs improve Live Streaming Encoding Efficiency with scalable transcoding, ABR workflows, and lower compute costs..

NETINT·Aug 26, 2026·6 min
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NETINT and Zixi partnership graphic against a bright, stadium-like background, titled "Live Video Meets Efficient Processing" with "VPU Ecosystem IBC Edition" badge.
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Reliable Live Video Meets Efficient Processing

Learn how Zixi Broadcaster, ZEN Master, and NETINT VPUs create Reliable Live Video workflows with scalable transcoding, monitoring, and failover.

NETINT·Aug 24, 2026·4 min
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Slide with bold text "VPU ECOSYSTEM PARTNER: Practical VPU Systems" against a white background with abstract translucent red 3D cubes overlaid on server racks. Features NETINT and Advantech logos with a cyan "VPU Ecosystem IBC Edition" badge.
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Beyond General-Purpose Compute

Discover how Advantech and NETINT use General-Purpose Compute, GPUs, and VPUs to build scalable immersive video and high-density streaming infrastructure..

NETINT·Aug 21, 2026·9 min
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VPU Ecosystem Partner graphic featuring NETINT and i3D.net with headline "Performance Critical Workloads." Background shows a live opera performance on stage alongside a digital broadcast production console and server racks. Includes "VPU Ecosystem IBC Edition" badge.
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Scaling Performance-Critical Video Workloads

Learn how NETINT Quadra and i3D.net support Performance-Critical Video Workloads with low-latency infrastructure, VPU encoding, and scalable video processing.

NETINT·Aug 19, 2026·6 min
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A promotional banner for the IBC Edition focused on the VPU ecosystem, featuring the prominent text "+ Add Encode Capacity via Distributed Infrastructure". It showcases abstract global network technology graphics with blue lights and red data streams, accompanied by the NETINT and NetActuate corporate logos in the bottom right corner.
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VPU Capacity Without a Hardware Cycle

Deploy VPU Capacity with NetActuate and NETINT Quadra to test hosted video encoding, accelerate deployment, and scale without new hardware.

NETINT·Aug 14, 2026·5 min
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Netint VPU Ecosystem graphic featuring a modern cable-stayed bridge with the headline “Build Dedicated VPU-Based Video Infrastructure.”
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Build Dedicated VPU-Based Video Infrastructure

Build Dedicated VPU Video Infrastructure with Quadra VPUs, validated systems, and Bitstreams to create scalable video processing platforms.

NETINT·Aug 12, 2026·6 min
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Before-and-after diagram showing an aging server chassis upgraded with VPUs, shifting video encode and transcode work from the CPU to a PCIe accelerator for more streams, lower watts per stream, and server redeployment.
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Get More From the Servers You Already Own

Learn how to get more from the servers you already own by adding VPU acceleration to increase encoding capacity and video processing efficiency.

NETINT·Aug 12, 2026·6 min
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NETINT graphic titled “VPUaaS: VPU-Powered Capacity-as-a-Service,” set against a blue abstract digital infrastructure background with VPU Ecosystem IBC Edition branding.
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VPU-Powered Capacity as a Service

Learn how VPU Capacity as a Service delivers encoding capacity faster through hosted infrastructure, reducing deployment time and operational burden.

NETINT·Aug 10, 2026·6 min
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NETINT graphic titled “3 Ways to Add VPU Capacity,” featuring a red-lit server rack in a data center, with VPU Ecosystem IBC Edition branding.
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Three Ways to Add Video Capacity in a Constrained Market

Learn three practical ways to add video capacity by using hosted VPUs, upgrading existing infrastructure, or deploying dedicated VPU systems.

NETINT·Aug 7, 2026·6 min
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The New Video Capacity Problem' on a blue gradient panel with NetInt logo and VPU Ecosystem text on a dark left strip.
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The New Video Capacity Problem

Learn why video capacity is now an architecture challenge and how streaming infrastructure with VPUs helps overcome power, density, and growth limits.

NETINT·Aug 5, 2026·6 min
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Server racks with red and blue data streams flowing through a data center, representing encoding efficiency and resilience in streaming infrastructure.
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Encoding Efficiency, Power, and Resilience in Streaming Infrastructure

Learn how encoding efficiency improves power use, resilience, rack density, and streaming infrastructure while reducing watts per stream.

NETINT·Aug 3, 2026·6 min
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Futuristic data center with glowing blue data streams illustrating high-speed video processing, with headline “From VPU Acceleration to Carrier-Grade Live Workflows.”
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From VPU Acceleration to Carrier-Grade Live Workflows

Learn how carrier-grade live streaming combines VPU acceleration, video orchestration, and a control plane to improve reliability and scalability.

NETINT·Jul 31, 2026·7 min
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Data center scene with GPU card streaming video thumbnails, titled “A Practical FFmpeg Walkthrough: From libx265 to h265_ni_quadra_enc”
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From libx265 to h265_ni_quadra_enc: A Practical FFmpeg Walkthrough

Learn how to build an efficient FFmpeg hardware encoding pipeline with h265_ni_quadra_enc while reducing frame transfers and improving performance.

NETINT·Jul 29, 2026·6 min
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Branded version of a circuit board illustration with illuminated chips and data streams, promoting VPU migration without rebuilding the video pipeline
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VPU Migration Without Rebuilding Your Video Pipeline 

Learn a practical 7-step approach for validating performance, reducing migration risk, and preserving production workflows.

NETINT·Jul 28, 2026·6 min
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NETINT graphic “How Video Encoding Runs: CPU vs Dedicated Hardware” showing data flow through silicon and high-speed interconnects
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How Video Encoding Actually Runs: CPU vs Dedicated Hardware 

The difference between CPU and VPU encoding becomes clear when the pipeline is viewed as a sequence of frame-processing stages and resource transfers.

NETINT·Jul 24, 2026·6 min
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Marketing banner about encoding efficiency: "Stop Asking Which Encoder. Start Asking Which Silicon." with a processor chip and data streams in blue/red hues. Alternative: Technology banner promoting silicon chips for encoding efficiency, featuring a glowing processor and circuitry.
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Stop Asking Which Encoder. Start Asking Which Silicon.

Encoder comparisons are useful only after the workload has been matched to the compute architecture that will carry it.

NETINT·Jul 20, 2026·7 min
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High-performance data center server rack with hardware video encoder or VPU card streaming data, illustrating efficient video transcoding, cloud infrastructure, and scalable media processing technology
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Encoding Efficiency Is Becoming an Infrastructure Decision

Encoders should be evaluated as infrastructure: by sustained throughput, power, density, predictability, and operational cost, not compression quality alone.

Mark Donnigan·Jul 16, 2026·7 min
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Blue-toned data center with row of servers and floating video thumbnails, conveying 'Scaling AV1 Video Encoding' (Hardware Encoding Series).
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Scaling AV1 Video Encoding: Why Quadra VPUs Replace CPU Infrastructure

Scaling AV1 video encoding with hardware video encoding and VPU transcoding reduces power, rack density, and operational cost at infrastructure scale.

Mark Donnigan·Jul 3, 2026·12 min
Upgraded servers improving performance.
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Recommission Old Servers: Your video encoding capacity is in your warehouse

Expanding video encoding capacity may not require new servers. Adding VPUs to existing hardware recovers dense capacity in a constrained supply market.

Mark Donnigan·Jun 25, 2026·2 min
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The C-Band Transition Is Finished. The Video Infrastructure Work Is Not.

The C-Band transition is finished, but the IP video work is not. How spectrum policy became an infrastructure challenge solved at the edge with VPUs.

Mark Donnigan·Jun 22, 2026·6 min
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Surveillance camera projecting data streams, highlighting decoding bottlenecks.
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Before AI can see: the decode bottleneck in modern surveillance

AI video analytics stall on decode, not the model. Why turning compressed surveillance video back into frames is the real constraint, and how VPUs fix it.

Mark Donnigan·Jun 15, 2026·5 min
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Cloud-based VPU infrastructure enabling scalable video processing as a service
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VPU-as-a-Service is a New Operating Model for Cloud Video Processing

VPU-as-a-Service delivers purpose-built video acceleration through a cloud consumption model, cutting cost per stream and power beyond what CPU or GPU cloud instances can offer.

Mark Donnigan·Jun 11, 2026·8 min
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Building a Category in Plain Sight: A Decade Inside the Rise of the Video Processing Unit

A decade inside the rise of the video processing unit, from industry skepticism to Emmy recognition, and how the VPU reshaped streaming infrastructure.

Mark Donnigan·May 13, 2026·12 min
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The Encoding Industry Just Changed its Mind About Everything

The 2026 State of Video Encoding Report draws on 286 professionals to reveal how codec, hardware, and cost decisions are reshaping streaming infrastructure.

Mark Donnigan·Apr 16, 2026·5 min
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Professional video camera setup highlighting real-time streaming and ultra-low latency performance
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When Milliseconds Define the Experience

How TMPS and Misao Network used NETINT VPUs to deliver ultra-low-latency 8K video over WebRTC, proving real-time 8K streaming is achievable today.

Mark Donnigan·Apr 13, 2026·8 min
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When Standards Become Strategy

MPEG-5 LCEVC enhances existing codecs instead of replacing them. How V-Nova's approach rewrites the economics of video quality and compression.

Mark Donnigan·Apr 7, 2026·8 min
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