Broadcast quality.Internet scale.

Live and real-time delivery designed for the audience you actually have, low latency where it matters, capacity that holds when the whole audience arrives at once, and costs that behave.

LIVE DELIVERYEncoder to viewers, worldwide
One signal in, every screen served from its nearest edge

Trusted by 100+ enterprises worldwide

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Why it matters

Live doesn't get a second take.

A slow web page loses a visitor. A stalled stream loses the moment, and the audience tells everyone. Live delivery is the least forgiving workload on the internet, and the one where architecture decides everything.

Latency chosen, not inherited

Standard HLS, low-latency HLS or WebRTC, the right protocol per use case, because sports betting and a keynote don't need the same three seconds.

Scale that's planned, not hoped for

Capacity modeled against your real concurrency curve, with headroom agreed in advance for the moment everyone joins at once.

Every region, one experience

Multi-CDN delivery for events, so viewers in Manila, Munich and Miami buffer equally, ideally, never.

Costs modeled per viewer-hour

Streaming bills scale with success. We model yours before the event, so a great audience isn't a billing incident.

What you get

Deliverables, not decks.

Architecture review

Ingest, transcode, packaging and delivery examined end to end for latency and failure modes.

Provider shortlist

The strongest streaming providers for your regions and formats, benchmarked and priced.

Event capacity plan

Concurrency forecasts, provider commitments and a failover plan for the big night.

Cost model

Per-viewer-hour economics across providers, so growth is a headline, not a surprise.

Client evidence

In their words.

It’s rare to find a team this obsessed with optimization. CDN World measurably improved our global performance at exactly the moment growth was testing it.
Head of Infrastructure · Global retail group
Failover used to be a war-room event. Now it’s a line in a report we read on Monday morning.
VP Engineering · Streaming platform
We walked into renewal with data instead of hope. The commercial result paid for the engagement many times over.
CTO · B2B SaaS company
CDN World was our Swiss-army knife when hunting for a new CDN and DNS provider. Reviewing and filtering offers took days instead of months, and it led us straight to the right option.
Infrastructure team · European hosting provider
They walked into our renewal knowing the market better than our incumbent’s own sales team. The contract we signed looks nothing like the first proposal, in our favor.
Head of Procurement · European media group
How we advise

Three steps.
Zero obligation.

The same assessment process behind every engagement, fast, transparent, and yours to keep whatever you decide.

A quick call

Ten minutes to understand exactly what you need: technical requirements, target geographies and the value-added services you could benefit from.

Benchmark and model

We analyze your requirements against our proprietary CDN index and third-party performance measurements, adjusted for your locations and scale, so conclusions fit your situation, not an average one.

Results, zero obligation

Our recommendations with full visibility into the data behind them, use them to decide, to justify the decision internally, or as leverage with your current provider.

FAQ

Asked before
every engagement.

What latency is actually realistic?

Standard HLS runs 15–30 seconds; tuned low-latency HLS reaches 2–5; WebRTC goes sub-second for interactive use cases. Each step costs complexity and money, we help you buy only the latency you need.

Can a single CDN handle a major live event?

Often, until it can't, and live is where 'until it can't' is most expensive. For high-stakes events we usually recommend multi-CDN delivery with real-time switching.

Do you cover video-on-demand too?

Yes. VOD is the calmer sibling, the same delivery, caching and cost questions apply, and the same benchmarking finds the answer.

How far ahead should we plan a major event?

Capacity commitments for genuinely large events are agreed weeks to months out; providers reserve headroom for planned peaks, not surprises. Bring us the date early and the big night becomes an execution exercise instead of a gamble.

What happens if a CDN fails mid-stream?

With multi-CDN delivery and real-time switching, viewers are steered to the healthy provider within seconds: a rebuffer at worst, not a blackout. With a single provider, the honest answer is: everyone waits together. That difference is the architecture decision.

Do you advise on players and protocols too?

On everything that touches delivery, yes, protocol choice, segment lengths, ABR ladder shape and player buffer settings all interact with the CDN layer. We stay out of your production and encoding creative; the pipeline from encoder to screen is ours.

How is streaming delivery priced?

Per gigabyte delivered, which for live means per viewer, per minute, per bitrate. We model your concurrency curve into a per-viewer-hour cost across providers, so you know what success costs before the audience shows up, not on the invoice after.

Can one setup handle both live and on-demand?

Yes, and it usually should, the same delivery layer serves both, with different caching behavior. Live wants capacity and switching; VOD wants cache efficiency and storage economics. One architecture, two configurations, one invoice.