Zixi Integration For IP Video

Zixi have announced a partnership with Marshall Electronics who have integrated the SDVP into their lineup of IP cameras. Serving use cases in entertainment, news reporting, sports, live events, live streaming and house of worship, the cameras deliver quality, ease of operation, and the flexibility to drive remote productions from anywhere. 

Marshall cameras feature PTZ and zoom capability with extended zoom ranges of 20x and 30x optical range, resolutions up to 3840x2160p60, and HEVC video encoding while simultaneously supporting output to 12GSDI and up to three concurrent Zixi feeds over IP. Adopted by some of the largest broadcast television and streaming production companies in the world, Marshall cameras now include native support for full Zixi-enabled delivery with compatibility extending to all Marshall Broadcast and Pro AV-over-IP solutions.

 All standard IP camera versions can be loaded with the Zixi-enabled firmware allowing existing Marshall operators to easily add Zixi support to their cameras, unlocking connectivity support and direct integration with the full suite of capabilities in the SDVP. Supported IP camera models include CV355-30X, CV420-30X, CV620, CV730 and the top level CV730-BHN/WHN platforms, allowing users to deliver live video utilising industry best performance, interoperability, resilience and security that the SDVP enables. 

Operations teams can deploy Zixi Broadcasters, which can ingest the Marshall Camera Zixi feed and provide real-time content quality analysis, live impairment detection, and low latency processing — including live transcoding and protocol conversion. Zixi also enhances reliable transmission with support for bonded delivery over diverse networks such as 5G, LTE and unmanaged internet and hitless failover — which reconstructs a single coherent transport stream from multiple time aligned sources.

 The SDVP’s Zixi protocol is a resilient congestion and network-aware protocol that adjusts to varying network conditions and employs patented, dynamic Forward Error Correction techniques for error-free video transport over IP with 99.9999% uptime at minimal latency. It provides best-in-class security with DTLS and AES encryption, allows for protected multicast transport, provides bandwidth efficiency, and enables encoder back-pressure. The Zixi ZEN Master control plane is also integrated to enable users to manage large-scale configurations. It is also able to orchestrate, analyse, monitor, and report on live video streams and devices across the Zixi Enabled Network of customers, integrated hardware and software applications, platforms, and service providers standardised on Zixi. 

As part of ZEN Master, Zixi’s Intelligent Data Platform aggregates 3 billion data points a day from across the Zixi Enabled Network. It uses advanced analytics, machine learning, and Zixi’s unique video telemetry data to provide alerts based on patterns and insights. These help media companies streamline broadcast operations by focusing their resources to fix errors before they occur and reduce costs from root cause analysis.

“Zixi is the leader for IP video delivery in the broadcast community and is requested by some of the industry’s largest integrators,” said Tod Musgrave, Senior Director Cameras, Marshall Electronics. “With Zixi integrated, Marshall Cameras now have access to the leading performance, efficiency, security and reliability that the SDVP enables.”

“We are thrilled for our mutual customers that Marshall has natively integrated Zixi into the IP Camera lineup,” said John Wastcoat, SVP Alliances and Marketing, Zixi. “Marshall has an excellent reputation in the broadcast community with their feature rich cameras and we look forward to a fruitful partnership.”