Ofrece experiencias de streaming en vivo sin interrupciones
Streaming Media Delivery para contenido en vivo
La plataforma de Fastly admite los principales formatos de distribución de vídeo en HTTP, incluidos vídeos en vivo, lineales y generados por el usuario, en cualquier despliegue de cabecera público o privado.
Nuestra solución Streaming Media Delivery permite distribuir vídeos en vivo mediante formatos de streaming HTTP habituales, como HLS de Apple y MPEG-DASH. Además, como contamos con elasticidad integrada, podemos ajustar la escala a las audiencias más multitudinarias.
Rendimiento superior
Define fácilmente situaciones a prueba de fallos para que la audiencia no experimente interrupciones. Lleva tu evento un paso más allá con nuestro servicio Live Event Monitoring y deja en nuestras manos tanto la supervisión del rendimiento como la resolución de problemas. Nos aseguraremos de que la retransmisión vaya como la seda.
Tiempos de respuesta mejorados
Fastly mantiene abiertas las conexiones entre nuestros POP y tu infraestructura para disminuir la latencia que suele producirse al recuperar los fragmentos en vivo más recientes desde el origen. Observarás una mejora en los tiempos de respuesta para tus espectadores, de modo que podrán ver la retransmisión con el mínimo desfase.
Más tiempo de actividad y disponibilidad
Adáptate rápidamente a los picos de tráfico durante los eventos en vivo más importantes y despídete de los cortes. Nosotros nos encargamos de los grandes volúmenes de peticiones y del contenido en streaming sin esperar a que las descargas se completen. Además, nuestra red se sirve de la autorrecuperación, así como de la detección y la mitigación de fallos en tiempo real, cuando el estado de internet dista de ser óptimo.
Funcionalidades
Visibilidad en tiempo real
Los registros de streaming en tiempo real te permiten supervisar el rendimiento de la infraestructura. Unidos a los controles pormenorizados y a los cambios de configuración inmediatos, puedes solucionar cualquier problema antes de que tenga consecuencias negativas para tu público.
Media Shield
Media Shield para contenidos en vivo de Fastly optimiza los despliegues existentes de CDN múltiples al tiempo que reduce el coste total de propiedad (TCO) de tus servicios de streaming.
Live Event Monitoring
Si se acerca un gran evento en vivo o de mucho tráfico, Fastly te ofrecerá un servicio de supervisión excelente y datos en tiempo real para avisarte si hay problemas de congestión o con cualquier proveedor ascendente o descendente.
Integración con partners de alto nivel
Colaboramos con los partners más destacados para ofrecer a nuestros clientes en común un flujo de vídeo mejorado de principio a fin. Nos integramos con proveedores de infraestructura como servicio, como Google Cloud Platform, y servicios de gestión de flujos de vídeo, como Wowza Media Systems.
Escalabilidad durante los picos de demanda
Streaming de contenido multimedia
«Fastly también almacena muy bien nuestro contenido en caché y nos permite adaptarnos a los picos de demanda, a la vez que nos aseguramos de que los costes de streaming sean razonables cuando aumenta el tráfico».
Las expectativas en cuanto a la calidad de la experiencia siempre están por las nubes en streamings en vivo, por lo que es obligado contar con el plan adecuado. Te enseñamos los pasos cruciales que debes seguir al planificar un evento de streaming en vivo.
El streaming en vivo de baja latencia nunca ha estado tan de actualidad. Experiencias de uso novedosas, como las preguntas de concurso o votaciones en tiempo real sobre contenido y entretenimiento, deben estar disponibles sin apenas retraso. En este artículo repasaremos casos de uso donde el streaming en vivo por HTTP de baja latencia resulta idóneo.
Media Shield de Fastly da más: disminuye los costes al reducir el tráfico a origen y mantiene un rendimiento alto y una latencia baja.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a live streaming CDN, and how does Fastly support live media at scale?
A live streaming CDN distributes live media streams through a globally distributed edge network to minimize latency, reduce buffering, and maintain stream quality under high concurrency. Fastly’s live streaming CDN is built on a programmable edge platform that enables real-time content delivery, rapid cache invalidation, and fine-grained traffic control—making it well suited for large-scale live video and interactive media streaming use cases.
How does Fastly reduce latency for live video streaming?
Fastly reduces latency by caching and delivering live video streams as close to viewers as possible using its global edge network. Features like real-time log streaming, instant configuration updates, and advanced request routing allow teams to optimize the media stream path dynamically, helping maintain consistent performance even during traffic spikes or breaking live events.
What live streaming protocols and formats does Fastly support?
Fastly supports industry-standard live streaming protocols and formats, including HLS and DASH, as well as Low-Latency HLS (LL-HLS), Low-Latency DASH (LL-DASH), and HESP. This ensures compatibility across modern browsers, mobile devices, smart TVs, and OTT platforms while enabling ultra-low-latency delivery for interactive and real-time use cases.
With support for both traditional and low-latency streaming workflows, engineering teams can deliver broadcast-scale live media experiences without being locked into proprietary formats or rigid delivery architectures.
How does Fastly handle traffic spikes during large live streaming events?
Fastly’s platform is designed to absorb sudden surges in demand common with live video CDN workloads, such as product launches, sports, or news events. With a highly scalable edge network and real-time observability, teams can monitor media streaming performance, mitigate origin overload, and respond instantly to changing traffic patterns. To protect origins, Fastly uses request collapsing, consolidating simultaneous requests for the same live segment into a single origin fetch and serving the response to all viewers.
For high-stakes broadcasts, teams can leverage Fastly Live Event Monitoring for white-glove support, Capacity Reservation to pre-allocate delivery capacity, and Media Shield to centralize and protect origin traffic. Combined with real-time observability, these capabilities ensure predictable performance at scale without compromising viewer experience.
Can Fastly help protect live streaming content from abuse and attacks?
Yes. Fastly integrates security directly into its edge platform to protect live streaming workflows from DDoS attacks, malicious bots, scraping, credential abuse, and unauthorized access.
Security capabilities include edge-based DDoS mitigation, bot detection and mitigation, rate limiting, IP and geo controls, and token-based authorization to validate viewers before delivering segments or manifests. Teams can enforce signed URLs, short-lived tokens, and custom access logic at the edge to prevent stream hijacking and content theft.
Because these controls run at the edge, protection is applied without adding latency to the live stream, ensuring performance and security operate together at broadcast scale.
How does Fastly support customization and control for live streaming workflows?
Fastly’s programmable edge allows developers and engineers to customize request handling, caching logic, authentication, and headers for live streaming CDN workflows. This level of control enables teams to tailor live media delivery to specific application requirements, regional needs, or business rules—all without redeploying backend systems.
What metrics are available for live media streaming?
Fastly provides granular, real-time and historical metrics across the full delivery path, from edge to origin. Key metrics include request volume, latency, cache hit ratio, origin fetch performance, error rates, and status codes, giving teams deep visibility into live stream health and viewer experience.
Data is accessible through streaming logs, dashboards, and APIs, enabling integration with existing observability and analytics platforms. Teams can also configure alerts based on thresholds or anomalies to proactively respond to performance degradation, origin stress, or unexpected traffic patterns during live events.
How does Fastly’s live streaming solution fit into a modern media streaming architecture?
Fastly is designed to integrate seamlessly into modern cloud-native and multi-CDN architectures. It works alongside origin servers, encoding pipelines, DRM providers, and analytics platforms to deliver live media efficiently while giving teams full control over performance, security, and cost.
With capabilities like Media Shield, teams can introduce an additional caching layer that centralizes and protects origin traffic, improves cache efficiency, and reduces origin egress costs. This architecture strengthens resilience while maintaining low latency and high availability.
The result is a flexible, programmable delivery layer that gives engineering teams precise control over performance, security, and cost across complex live streaming workflows.
Is Fastly suitable for enterprise and mission-critical live streaming use cases?
Yes. Fastly’s live streaming CDN is built for enterprises that require high availability, low latency, and operational transparency. It’s used by organizations delivering business-critical live video and media streams where reliability, performance, and real-time control are non-negotiable.
For high-profile or large-scale broadcasts, teams can leverage Fastly Live Event Monitoring for proactive monitoring and white-glove operational support before and during events. Combined with Fastly’s programmable edge and real-time observability, this ensures predictable performance and rapid response when it matters most.
