Live Events
Service Overview
Rambla has been streaming live events from all over Europe since 2005. Our experts are experienced in all different aspects of delivering a live-stream. We can either manage the complete delivery or take care of certain aspects in order to ensure a successful production.
Our services include:
- Best-practice advice on format selection, media player configuration, live-stream planning...
- Securing access to a professional signal transmission service
- Pre-configuration of dedicated edge network and load-balancing to ensure scalability for large events
- Real-time transcoding of the video and audio signal to the live delivery format
- Broadcasting H264/AAC streams to the origin streaming server
- Pre-event testing
- On-site and/or remote support and monitoring of the live-stream
- Live stream recording and post-event encoding to one or multiple on-demand formats (using Rambla Broadcaster, see below)
- Automatic publishing of on-demand media to the Rambla CDN
Scalability
Your live-stream is broadcasted to a dedicated Wowza Origin Server and relayed to a pool of Wowza Edge Servers, from which your end-users can receive the stream. Since these pool servers are part of the Rambla CDN, you enjoy all benefits of having your live-stream delivered from our CDN. This includes our ability to scale up/out for very large or global events, by adding virtual edge servers to the pool for additional bandwidth or extra reach. If required, a dedicated load-balancer can be configured to make sure that end-user connections are being spread evenly over the different edge servers.
Broadcaster
When teaming up with us, you can also take advantage of our Rambla Broadcaster, developed in-house as a live encoder and broadcasting solution that offers extreme stability and high performance at the same time. Additionally, our broadcast server has the capacity to store the complete live-stream on disc and encode it afterwards to one or multiple formats, and automatically publish them to the Rambla CDN for immediate on-demand viewing.
Rambla Stream Enabler
Rambla Stream Enabler (RASE) is a web service/application, which allows you to quickly set up and configure live streams for small and medium scale audiences, without having to contact Rambla. RASE can be used manually, via a web browser, and/or programmatically through its API.
PAST Projects
Over the past 5 years, Rambla has proven to be a reliable partner for streaming live events. A quick overview of our track record: 500+ live concerts for Ancienne Belgique, all live events (Humo's Pop Poll De Luxe, Rock Rally, Comedy Cup) for Humo during the last couple of years, product launches for Microsoft (Vista), Sony (Viao series press launch in Berlin) and Intel, corporate webcasts for Vacature, Euronext, Bayer and numerous EU-agencies, live video campaigns for Delhaize and Antwerp Zoo, e-learning for Vlerick Management School, international football games for VT4 and VRT, to name just a few.
