Zixi Feeders – Zixi Feeder resides at the point of acquisition and is either embedded inside Zixi EcoZystem partner encoder HW or SW, inside a camera (no back pack or field pack required) or can be installed on a pc that will be operated with any non-Zixi enabled encoder or camera. Zixi Feeder accepts and prepares the encoded video for transmission over standard internet connections using Zixi's UDP based transport stream protocol. Although Zixi Feeders are installed on premise, they can be added to the ZEN Master and managed through the ZEN Master’s management console. ZEN Master can manage multiple Zixi Feeder’s located in multiple points of acquisition.
Zixi Broadcasters - The Zixi Broadcaster serves as a central hub for management, processing, and distribution of content in various formats. The Zixi Broadcaster platform enables live linear and live event broadcast-quality video delivery over standard broadband Internet. Zixi Broadcaster can also transcode and deliver RTMP or HLS in various bit rates and protocols.
Broadcaster Clusters are groups of Zixi Broadcasters that perform a certain task or tasks. A cluster can be configured to scale automatically or manually, enabling you to maximize the use of your resources. ZEN Master offers two types of Zixi Broadcaster Clusters:
Ingest – Zixi Broadcaster Ingest Clusters handle the input streams (ingest) coming from the various Zixi Feeders.
Channel Processing – Zixi Broadcaster Channel Processing Clusters are used to perform additional processing on the streams, including transcoding, transmuxing, recording, and more. These clusters are also used for passing the streams on to various targets.
Zixi Receiver - Zixi Receiver is a lightweight software tool that runs on standard PC hardware or can be embedded into a wide variety of professional decoders and mobile devices as part of the growing Zixi EcoZystem. Zixi Receiver accepts input from Zixi Feeder or Broadcaster via standard IP networks (including the public Internet) and outputs professional-quality video to a broad range of Integrated Receiver-Decoders (IRDs), and to file systems.
As part of the management and configuration process, Zixi Feeders, Broadcasters Clusters and Receivers are added to the system as described below.
