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ZIXI BROADCASTER v16

UNIVERSAL MEDIA GATEWAY AND VIDEO PROCESSING SOLUTION

At the heart of the Zixi Software Defined Video Platform (SDVP) is Zixi Broadcaster, a universal media gateway that
delivers unparalleled performance, security, resilience, and flexibility. Zixi Broadcaster includes everything needed to
enable high performance live video routes between sources and target destinations over any IP network, with advanced
in-flight processing, dedicated monitoring, and mission critical reliability. Zixi Broadcaster connects to source feeds,
continuously interrogating the network connection and measuring content quality while programmatically normalizing
the channel to match the requirements of target destinations. Zixi Broadcaster enables live ultra-low latency
accelerated transcoding, transmuxing, program mapping, slate insertion, on-demand recording, and packaged
distribution over any protocols optimized for playback on any device. Zixi Broadcaster provide content-aware error
correction, bandwidth shaping, and real-time feedback of streaming status enabling content producers to economically
transmit premium broadcast quality live video over any network, including commodity internet connections and mobile
networks, to support live event and linear production, contribution, primary distribution, re-distribution and OTT
workflows.

Zixi Broadcaster Key Benefits

• Manage ultra-low latency, highly resilient live video routes over any public, private, wireless or cloud network
• Unparalleled per core video throughput and processing efficiency deliver more video with less infrastructure
• Broadest support for industry-standard video formats and delivery protocols
• Layered security with end-to-end encryption, password protected session establishment and DTLS certificate
validation
• Flexibly scale Zixi Broadcaster deployments on-prem, virtually or in the cloud
• Sophisticated video optimized user dashboards and easily integrated programmatic REST Open API simplify
operations

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statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Zixi shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or
omissions contained herein. NVIDIA, Intel Quick Sync, and X264 are trademarks of respective companies in the U.S. and other countries.

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Zixi Broadcaster Common Use Cases ZIXI BROADCASTER INCLUDES:

Universal Media Gateway
• Robust content delivery over IP - Active managed highly
Standardize source acquisition and normalize channel feeds resilient live video routes with predictable ultra-low latency delivery
for live distribution while providing an interoperable solution • Adaptive Rate Control - Dynamically adjusts stream rate to adapt
that will help simplify any broadcast workflow. Zixi Broadcaster to changing network conditions, using unicast or multicast, to meet
is a universal media gateway driven by a simple philosophy; specific application requirements
you should be able to ingest a feed in any protocol, transform • Accelerated Transcoding - support for low latency and GPU
content to any format, and deliver to any traditional or digital accelerated live transcodes to a variety of different profiles and bit
destination with the guaranteed quality of service and highest rates
quality video that broadcasters demand. Some of the largest • OTT Format conversion – supports all internet streaming
protocols including HLS/CMAF/DASH/RTMP/MPEG-TS over HTTP and
content aggregation platforms use Zixi Broadcaster every day more
to ingest, normalize and re-distribute thousands of active
• Recording - store streams as MPEG-TS files on shared storage
premium content channels.
• Time-shifting – records the stream to delay its broadcasting
• File Streaming - stored files can be accessed and programmed in to
Satellite Rationalization a live stream in multiple formats
As C-band spectrum is re-allocated to accommodate for 5G • Clustering and load balancing – supports cluster architectures
development, broadcasters are exploring alternative transport to provide continuous uptime
solutions for content delivery as the amount of bandwidth • Transport Stream Analyzer – MPEG-TS ETSI TR 101-290
available diminishes. Zixi Broadcaster can turn any network analyzer (priorities 1 and 2)
connection in to a high performance, ultra-low latency and • Content Impairments - analysis of the stream's audio and video
content, including audio levels, audio silence detection, frozen video
highly resilient video route. Zixi Broadcaster can bond signals detection, and more
delivered across diverse signal paths, for example, 5G and
• Live Perceptual Quality Analysis - Real-time and trending VMAF
Public Internet, and offers sequenced hitless failover between and PSNR score estimation
sources, guaranteeing reliable transmission. Flexibly scale out • Telemetry Monitoring - captures and analyzes network and
Zixi Broadcaster deployments to dynamically increase channel content specific statistical information in real-time
capacity in minutes. Global distribution across cloud provider • Supports many to many and any to any - gateway platform
backbones, public internet and private networks deliver between UDP (unicast/multicast), Zixi protected stream
international reach at a fraction of the cost of legacy satellite. (unicast/multicast), and 16 other leading protocols
• Network bonding – seamlessly bonded delivery over geographic
and network diverse signal paths
Digital Media Supply Chain Processing
Delivering high profile live events and always-on linear channel • Hitless failover - hitless failover guarantees uninterrupted
streaming when switching between binary-identical streams with
services to anywhere in the world requires the agility to scale synchronized RTP headers.
and process content to match the needs of a wide variety of • IFB Support - a monitoring and cueing system for one-way
target destinations. Zixi Broadcaster incorporates state-of-the- communication from the director or assistant director to on-air talent or
art accelerated transcoding, live compliance monitoring and a remote location
sophisticated workflow processing to normalize contribution • AES 256 stream encryption - UDP, File and RTMP input streams
feeds in to as many discreet deliverables as required. With can be encrypted by Zixi Broadcaster using a fixed key (AES 128, AES
192, AES 256)
support for high density GPU accelerated transcoding, Zixi
Broadcaster can tailor each output to the exact format • DTLS - Establish certificate verified strong cipher protections around
stream connections
requirements of the intended receiver or playout client. A
• Multiplexing - MPTS streams can be demuxed into single SPTS input
common mezzanine source can be simultaneously routed as streams for specific programs and vice versa
ABR packaged streams to partner CDN origins, multiplexed in • SCTE-35 - SCTE-35 markers found in the source input are
to a MPTS for delivery to IRDs and multicast directly to propagated in-band or in ABR manifest formats and used for stream
subscribing multicast client STBs. Zixi Broadcaster enables segmentation
interoperability and simplifies complex media supply chain • Low-latency ABR Stream Packaging - Low latency HLS and
management with powerful processing solutions. CMAF chunked delivery packaging

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statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Zixi shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or
omissions contained herein. NVIDIA, Intel Quick Sync, and X264 are trademarks of respective companies in the U.S. and other countries.

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Ingest
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Zixi, NDI, RIST, RTP, RTP+FEC, UDP, HLS, RTMP(S), SRT, Multipath TCP, TCP BBR, RTSP, HTTP, ASI
Hardware
CPU: Intel i3 dual core CPU or above; AMD Ryzen and Epyc processors. Egress
RAM: 2 GB RAM (minimum) Zixi, NDI, RIST, RTP, RTP+FEC, UDP, HLS, LL-HLS, LL-CMAF, DASH, RTMP(S), SRT, Multipath TCP,
Networking: 2 x 1GB network card TCP BBR, HTTP, ASI, WebRTC
Operating System
Linux Captions
Zixi Broadcaster - 64-bit CentOS 7.x or an equivalent Linux distribution with glibc 2.14+ ATSC 608/708 ES passthrough to Zixi TS, HLS, DASH, and RTMP
Linux Ubuntu 12 or later, 64-bit DVB track passthrough to Zixi TS
Linux Debian 7 or later, 64-bit WebVTT generation from ATSC 708 Elementary Stream
Non-GUI server distribution recommended due to conflicts with NetworkManager GUI
applications Video Processing
Windows MPTS De-multiplexing
Windows® Server 2012/2016/2019, 32-bit or 64-bit Passthrough
Windows 8/10, 32-bit or 64-bit 10-bit to 8-bit color downscaling
Windows releases are supported per the Microsoft support schedule. Server OS is preferred for Thumbnail extraction as HLS playlist
24/7. Desktop OS, if used, should be configured to disable auto updates and prefer Deinterlacing (non-telecine) on all input codecs
background service priority. Interlaced output (only with X264 S/W encoder and NDI)
PID mapping and PID pass-thru
Black bar insertion
Cropping
Smooth framerate conversion – up and down
NETWORK PORT ACCESS REQUIREMENTS FOR FULL FUNCTIONALITY Image Overlay/Logo Insertion
Copy GOP from source or generate new GOP
GOP synchronization when generate new GOP
Port Type Direction Description Omit or keep closed captions
I-frame synchronization of outputs with different FPS
I-frame injection at SCTE-35 markers
2088 UDP Inbound Push to Broadcaster from Feeder or another
Broadcaster, Zixi protocol ** Preserve all video source color primaries

Video Decode
7088 UDP Inbound Push to Broadcaster from Feeder or another Up to 1080p60 MPEG-2 4:2:0
Broadcaster, Zixi protocol with DTLS **
Up to 2160p60 H264 4:2:0
Up to 2160p60 HEVC 4:2:0|4:4:4 8-bit|10-bit
2077 UDP Inbound Pull from Broadcaster by Receiver or another NDI
Broadcaster, Zixi protocol ** CDI
JPEG-XS
7077 UDP Inbound Pull from Broadcaster by Receiver or another
Broadcaster, Zixi protocol with DTLS ** Video Encode
Up to 1080i30 MPEG-2 4:2:0
1935 TCP Inbound Encoder push to Broadcaster, RTMP protocol Up to 2160p60 H264 4:2:0|4:4:4 8-Bit
Up to 2160p60 HEVC 4:2:0|4:4:4 8-bit|10-bit
NDI
1935 TCP Outbound Broadcaster push to CDN or RTMP server,
RTMP protocol
Audio Processing
Transcode up to 16 audio tracks
7777 TCP Inbound HTML5 video player or CDN pull from Passthrough of all audio tracks
Broadcaster, HTTP streaming protocol - HLS or PID mapping and pass-thru
DASH Audio Sample Rate Conversion - 44.1KHz to/from 48KHz

4444 TCP Inbound Web management UI, HTTP protocol Audio Decode
AAC Low Complexity, High Efficiency V1, High Efficiency V2
80/443 TCP Outbound Outbound + return - Zixi License server
ADTS and LATM encapsulation
- license.zixi.com AC3 (Dolby Digital)
- 52.72.218.41 MP2 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer II)
- 34.195.97.223 MP1 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II)
Opus
53 DNS Outbound Outbound + return - communication to license
server, Broadcaster/Feeder/Receiver host Audio Encode
name resolution AAC Low Complexity, High Efficiency V1, High Efficiency V2
E-AC-3 (Enhanced Dolby Digital)
Network Opus

Advanced Features
ML-based adaptive bitrate control based on network conditions

Ad Insertion
SCTE-35 passthrough to Zixi TS
SCTE-35 converted to CUE-OUT/CUE-IN in HLS
SCTE-35 converted to Splice Events in DASH
SCTE-35 converted to OnCuePoint in RTMP
API Injection with output to SCTE-35 in Zixi TS
API Injection with output to CUE-OUT/CUE-IN in HLS
API Injection with output to Splice Events in DASH
API Injection with output to OnCuePoint in RTMP

© Copyright 2007-2022 Zixi. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for Zixi products and services are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Zixi shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or
omissions contained herein. NVIDIA, Intel Quick Sync, and X264 are trademarks of respective companies in the U.S. and other countries.

230 Third Ave | Waltham | MA |02451| www.zixi.com | [email protected]

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