CAPTURE LIVE AND ON-DEMAND VIDEO

Acquire with Uplynk

A lack of ingest flexibility can be both risky and costly. Our solution ensures you have the right tools for every situation, sparing you unnecessary expenses and operational headaches. Start your streaming service journey with ease.

Why Choose Uplynk?

Flexible Ingest Options: Cloud or On-Prem

The initial steps in streaming video delivery – ingesting and preparing content – are often expensive and complicated. Our solution simplifies the complexities and costs of managing multiple technologies, seamlessly integrating with your workflows and partners.

Adaptable Ingest Workflows

Cloud Ingest: Ideal for reliable high-bandwidth uploads. 

On-Prem Ingest: Perfect for remote locations or areas with spotty bandwidth. 

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The Benefits of Acquiring with Uplynk

Streamlined Content Intake
Streamline your workflow and save time by easily acquiring live and/or on-demand video content in the cloud or on-prem.

Flexibility in the Cloud
Benefit from the flexibility of cloud-based ingestion by connecting to VOD mezzanine content library or uploading content through APIs while seamlessly integrating with your existing infrastructure. 

Seamless Failover
Create different versions of your channel using a single live source.

Simplified Live Events
Effortlessly schedule, manage, and monetize content for 24/7 live events, linear channels, or more, empowering your team to scale live events with broadcast-quality tools.

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Effortless Video Ingestion: Cloud or On-Prem

Directly upload your content to the cloud or on-prem with Uplynk, designed to meet the diverse requirements of any workflow.  Enjoy seamless, flexible, and reliable video ingestion wherever and whenever you need it.

Ingest to the Cloud
Optimize workflows without sacrificing quality. Your team can ingest live or VOD content in the cloud and remotely manage all your workstreams with comprehensive tools that keep your operations teams informed.

  • VOD – Connect to mezzanine storage in the cloud or upload your content via API to our fully managed infrastructure.
  • Live – Resources to scale live events and capabilities to support a 24/7 live linear channel. Schedule, manage, and monetize content easily with our broadcast-quality tools.

Local Ingest
Uplynk’s custom Slicer software can be installed on-prem within your infrastructure, providing flexibility and integration points for your workflow.

Save time and maintain the highest video quality, whether for live streaming or VOD content, all from a single platform.

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Content Acquisition

Region-Specific Encoding
Acquire live content in one region, an alternate localized feed in another, and replace with VOD assets, slate, or alternate content from your library for out-of-market regions.

Efficient and Cost-Effective
Alternative Feed Switching offers simplified, efficient, and cost-effective streaming, allowing you to acquire and stream content your way.

Flexible Content Replacement – Our platform is flexible enough to schedule blackouts via the UI, API, CSV file, or ESNI signals. Create an audience, build rulesets, and apply to acquired assets for seamless content replacement.

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Uplynk’s Flexible Feed Switching for Failover

  • Continuously monitor live stream characteristics, identifying issues such as low video brightness, missing captions, audio levels and synchronization, bitrate stability, and network latency.
  • When a live stream’s video health is degraded, Uplynk robustly and automatically can switch seamlessly to an alternate encode source
Revolutionizing Video Streaming for Broadcasters and OTT Providers with Uplynk

Simple UX Design

  • Easy to use Uplynk is designed to simplify control of powerful operations, making complex processes straightforward and efficient.
  • A secure and user-friendly web portal allows you to effortlessly select assets and start uploading with just a click.
  • Robust API-first platform from ads to VOD, Uplynk offers APIs that make integration effortless.
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Why Edgio Uplynk?

Manage your streaming service end-to-end

In one simple, powerful environment, your team can ingest, encode, manage, monetize, secure, distribute, and monitor your streaming services — and deliver broadcast quality at global scale.

Award Winning Platform

NAB Product of the Year Award 2024
Edge Platform Leader & Outperformer in GigaOM Radar 2024
Global Infosec Award 2024

Customer Success Stories

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“With the addition of Edgio’s Security solutions, we now have greater visibility on potential vulnerabilities, fewer false positives, and the speed required to deploy new rules and address attempted attacks efficiently and effectively.”

– Kent Zimmerman, VP, eCommerce & CRM

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“Edgio helped us unite technology, processes, and people. The results speak for themselves. Edgio delivered.”

– Mandeep Bhatia VP of Global Digital Product and Omnichannel Innovation

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“High-quality viewing experience is critically important to us. With Edgio, we were able to move from an on-prem solution to a fully cloud-based solution without losing any control.”​

– John McCauley, VP Marketing & Media

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“We moved from Akamai because Edgio offered substantially better tools, pricing, and support. The platform is extremely reliable and robust, and your support team is quick to respond and resolve any issue. Edgio is just a better experience all around.”​

– Kyle Rao, President