Red5

Red5 provides low-latency live streaming solutions and infrastructure for interactive video experiences. Its proprietary Experience Delivery Network (XDN) technology enables sub-250 millisecond latency for applications like sports, surveillance, and broadcast, supporting various protocols and codecs.

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Product

Problem

Delivering real-time, interactive video experiences at scale presents significant technical challenges, particularly concerning latency and synchronization across diverse network conditions. Traditional streaming solutions often struggle to meet the sub-250 millisecond latency required for truly interactive applications, leading to a degraded user experience in sectors like live sports, surveillance, and broadcast.

Solution

Red5 provides a comprehensive suite of low-latency live streaming solutions and infrastructure designed to enable interactive, real-time video experiences. Leveraging its proprietary Experience Delivery Network (XDN) technology built on open-source WebRTC, Red5 achieves end-to-end latency as low as 50-250 milliseconds. This allows for seamless interactivity, enabling applications such as user-controlled camera angles in sports, real-time data overlays for surveillance, and synchronized multi-stream events for broadcast production. The platform offers flexibility in deployment, supporting cloud-based, on-premise, or hybrid environments, and provides robust SDKs for integration across web and mobile platforms.

Target Audience

Red5 serves a broad range of clients including broadcasters, sports organizations, surveillance companies, gaming platforms, and developers requiring high-performance, low-latency video streaming infrastructure.

Features

**TrueTime Solutions™**: A toolkit for building custom live streaming applications with sub-250ms latency.
**Red5 Pro**: Self-hosted server software for low-latency streaming.
**Red5 Cloud**: Fully managed SaaS platform for scalable live streaming.
**Red5 SDKs**: Comprehensive Software Development Kits for Web, iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.
**Protocol Support**: Includes WebRTC, RTSP, SRT, RTMP, ERTMP, HESP, Zixi, WHIP/WHEP, and HLS.
**Codec Support**: Integrates h.264 (AVC), h.265 (HEVC), AV1, VP9, and Opus.
**Scalability**: Features autoscaling capabilities for handling large audiences and multiple deployments.
**DataSync™**: Enables real-time telemetry data synchronization with video streams.
**MultiView™**: Allows for dynamic mixing of streams and on-the-fly custom views.
**WatchParty™**: Facilitates collaborative viewing experiences for communities.
**Studio™**: Tools for managing multi-stream live events and remote teams.