Reliable Live Video Transport and Orchestration at Broadcast Scale
Zixi provides the transport, orchestration, and monitoring layer for live video moving over unmanaged IP networks. Its platform carries broadcast-quality feeds from venues, studios, and remote sites to distribution endpoints worldwide, with error correction, hitless failover, and end-to-end visibility across every path. As a partner in the NETINT VPU Ecosystem, Zixi pairs that transport reliability with hardware-accelerated video processing — giving broadcasters and streaming platforms a way to scale IP-based distribution without scaling CPU cost at the same rate.
Role in the VPU Ecosystem
Zixi occupies the transport and control layer of the NETINT VPU Ecosystem. Its Broadcaster engine handles ingest, conditioning, and delivery across more than a dozen protocols, while ZEN Master orchestrates and monitors those workflows from a single control plane.
The Zixi Platform includes native NETINT VPU support in its transcoding engine, allowing operators to place encode and decode work on dedicated silicon rather than general-purpose CPUs. Zixi documents the deployment in full, in its Transcoder Installation Guide, which covers the software, NVIDIA and NETINT paths together, and in the NETINT VPU Transcoder Installation guide for the Quadra-specific steps.
For teams migrating live distribution off satellite and onto IP, this combination addresses both halves of the problem at once: the reliability of the path, and the cost of the channels running across it.
Company Type
Live video transport and workflow orchestration software
Core Focus
Reliable IP video delivery, protocol interoperability, and centralized workflow control
Primary Workloads
Live contribution, satellite replacement, linear distribution, live sports and events
Customer Profile
Broadcasters, sports rights holders, OTT and vMVPD platforms, managed service providers
Who to Talk to About VPUs at Zixi
Connect with the Zixi team to discuss IP contribution and distribution, moving off satellite, and how VPU-accelerated transcoding fits an existing workflow.
Joint Workflow
Zixi moves and orchestrates live video across unpredictable networks, while NETINT VPUs process it at density.
- Broadcast-quality contribution and distribution over unmanaged IP, with error correction and hitless failover
- Hardware-accelerated HEVC and H.264 transcoding running natively inside the Zixi Platform
- Higher channel density per rack unit, reducing the server footprint required for IP-based distribution
- Centralized orchestration and monitoring across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployments
- A practical migration path for broadcasters replacing satellite distribution with IP workflows
News, Articles and Videos
Featuring Zixi
NETINT VPU Transcoder Installation
Zixi’s documentation for deploying NETINT Quadra VPUs with Broadcaster. Supported cards, the automated installer, firmware steps, codec support and troubleshooting. The practical guide for moving transcoding onto dedicated silicon.
Zixi Transcoder Installation Guide
Zixi’s top-level transcoder documentation, covering the software path, NVIDIA GPU and NETINT VPU in one place. Codec and protocol support, output formats, and where each acceleration option fits. The starting point for anyone who has not yet chosen a transcoding path.
Reliable Live Video Meets Efficient Processing
A technical breakdown of how Zixi Broadcaster, ZEN Master, and NETINT VPUs divide the work in a live workflow — which layer owns transport, control, and transcoding, why a VPU fits the processing tier, and what to benchmark before committing.
Inside Zixi's Cloud-Native Video Platform: Scaling Live Streaming with VPUs
Tim Baldwin, SVP and Head of Product at Zixi, discusses the company’s evolution from transport protocol to full live video platform, why Zixi integrated NETINT VPUs for cloud-native transcoding, and how transcoding density affects total cost of ownership.
Inside Zixi's Cloud-Native Video Platform: Scaling Live Streaming with VPUs
Tim Baldwin, SVP and Head of Product at Zixi, discusses the company’s evolution from transport protocol to full live video platform, why Zixi integrated NETINT VPUs for cloud-native transcoding, and how transcoding density affects total cost of ownership.
Learn more about Zixi and its live video transport and orchestration platform.
