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Streaming to web destinations (website, embed codes, Facebook, YouTube, apps, and more simultaneously) is enabled by a Resi Live Stream Platform service plan, which offers the same benefit of resiliency as Resi’s Multisite Platform: streaming perfectly without buffering wheels even on inconsistent connections.

For best practice, we do recommend using a separate encoder, as this allows maximum control over the content streaming to your destinations and enables streaming in the highest bitrate possible for each destination, leading to the best video quality.

However, to reduce cost or for most simplicity, it is possible to stream to both multisite and web destinations with one encoder.

In order to start streaming with the Multisite Platform, the only hardware that is required is an encoder at your broadcast site and a decoder at the receiving site. However, many organizations may choose to also have a decoder at their broadcast site. A decoder at the broadcast site is not necessary for the system to operate reliably, but it is great for quality checking the stream, setting frame-accurate cue points for other decoders to easily begin playback from, local playback of cloud content, and to have a backup unit on hand.

Resi is built to provide point-to-point/multisite streaming reliability equal to dedicated connections without the expense of digging dark fiber or ongoing leased connections such as MPLS. This is possible because unlike other providers, Resi’s Resilient Streaming Protocol ensures 100% content integrity over the public internet by checking and re-sending data from the encoder until it is verified as perfect by the receiving site. This means that your connection could go out for as long as your delay between encode and decode (seriously, you can unplug the ethernet cable from either end), and your receiving site will not have any interruptions.

If you have a dedicated connection, even better! Resi’s platform will operate in LAN mode, which will enable the highest amount of resiliency with the shortest delay by sending content directly from the encoder to the decoder. What’s more, if this connection is disrupted, the decoder will dynamically switch to the cloud and download data from there instead without any interruption.

Resi’s reliability is also guaranteed by our unique cloud infrastructure – rather than relying on dedicated servers, we use groundbreaking scalable cloud distribution methods that are not affected by drastic increases in traffic like other streaming providers. This means that no matter how much traffic streams may receive, Resi’s technology is able to scale dynamically to meet the need with no problems.

Additionally, Resi is built to be an enterprise-level solution, while also being remarkably easy to use. Streams can be started with a single click or automated on a schedule. The system will also monitor your stream and will notify you if it ever detects any concerns (and our helpful Support team is standing by too).

An encoder is a piece of hardware or software that converts incoming video signals into a digital format suitable for streaming on the internet. Video cameras—whether on your smartphone or a separate piece of hardware—take in a lot of information, and all of that information can bog down the quality and speed of your livestream (think of traffic on a particularly busy freeway during rush hour). Encoders remedy this situation by compressing the audio and video data in such a way that it’s easy to transmit over the internet while maintaining a high-level of quality.