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Mastering the Mechanics of Live Streaming at Scale
 
Dive into the high-stakes world of massive live events at Streaming Media Magazine's "The Mechanics of Live Streaming" webinar. This is your chance to learn the secrets of delivering flawless, high-resiliency, high-reliability livestreams for events like the Olympics, the World Cup, and global esports showdowns. We're going beyond basic webcasts to explore the complex strategies and robust technologies required to serve millions of concurrent global viewers without a hitch.

Join us for this in-depth webinar designed for livestreaming pros, system architects, engineers, product managers, and decision-makers responsible for delivering cutting-edge live video. The industry's top real-world practitioners and solutions providers will share their best practices for tackling the toughest challenges in live streaming, from ensuring broadcast-quality delivery to scaling for a global audience. Whether you're a streaming engineer, a content executive, or a media technologist, you'll walk away with the insights you need to confidently manage your next major live event.

Key Topics include...
  • The Imperative of Ultra-Low Latency:
    • Defining "real-time" in a mission-critical context (sub-100ms, sub-500ms goals).
    • Understanding the business drivers for tunable and near-zero latency (interactivity, fairness, engagement, competitive advantage).
    • Challenges of achieving and maintaining real-time performance at scale.
  • Next-Generation Protocols for Real-Time:
    • Media over QUIC (MoQ): A deep dive into how MoQ leverages QUIC's multiplexing, reduced head-of-line blocking, and faster connection setup to revolutionize media transport for interactive live experiences. We'll discuss its architecture, benefits, and current state of adoption.
    • WebTransport: Exploring WebTransport as a foundational low-latency, bidirectional, and secure client-server communication API built on HTTP/3. How it can complement media delivery for synchronized data, interactive elements, and custom real-time applications.
    • Beyond WebRTC & SRT: While acknowledging the strengths of existing solutions like WebRTC for peer-to-peer and SRT for contribution, we'll focus on how MoQ and WebTransport address new challenges and enable broader, more scalable real-time distribution.
  • Architecting for Real-Time Scale & Resilience:
    • Optimizing your end-to-end workflow, whether on-prem, cloud, or hybrid: Ingest, encoding, and distribution for minimal delay.
    • Leveraging edge computing and CDN innovations for closest-to-viewer delivery.
    • Strategies for maintaining real-time performance during sudden audience spikes and network fluctuations.
    • Implementing robust redundancy and failover mechanisms for mission-critical events.
  • Player & Application Optimization:
    • Building real-time-ready players and applications that can fully leverage new protocols.
    • Synchronization challenges across multiple participants or data streams.
    • Considerations for mobile, browser, and CTV real-time playback.
  • Monitoring, Analytics & Troubleshooting in the Moment:
    • Real-time QoE/QoS monitoring for identifying and addressing latency issues instantly.
    • Advanced analytics to understand streaming video quality metrics, viewer experience, and system performance.
    • Proactive strategies for anomaly detection and rapid response.
  • New Frontiers & Use Cases:
    • How real-time streaming unlocks possibilities in interactive sports viewing, synchronized gaming, live commerce, virtual events, and more.
    • The intersection of real-time video with Web3, metaverse, and immersive experiences.
If you're a professional looking to master the art and science of true real-time live streaming, and keen to understand the practical applications of cutting-edge technologies like MoQ and WebTransport, this webinar is for you. Join us to equip yourself with the knowledge to deliver the next generation of instantaneous live experiences.

Don't miss this live event on Thursday, November 6th, 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET.

Register Now to attend the webinar Mastering the Mechanics of Live Streaming at Scale.