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Live Streaming Engineering

The technical role that sits between the switcher and the viewer — booked on its own when you already have video and audio covered.

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streaming engineering — live production

New York Live Streaming

Streaming engineering is the discipline of getting a produced program from a switcher to viewers reliably: choosing and configuring the encoder, picking the right protocol (RTMP, SRT, NDI) for each hop, designing the network path and its backup, setting up multi-destination distribution, and monitoring the whole chain during the event. New York Live Streaming provides a streaming engineer and a rack as a standalone booking for productions that already have cameras and audio handled — an agency, an in-house team, or a venue that needs the streaming and connectivity layer covered by a specialist.

What the role covers

  • Encoder configuration and a hot backup encoder
  • Protocol choice per hop — SRT or bonded transport over unmanaged networks, NDI on the local production LAN, RTMP to platform destinations
  • Network design: dedicated path, firewall coordination, and an independent backup medium
  • Multi-destination and simulcast distribution, plus bridging into Zoom/Teams
  • Live monitoring of bitrate, dropped frames, path health and destination status, with failover
  • A short post-event technical report

Streaming is a networking problem

Picture quality is irrelevant if the packets don't arrive. The failures that take streams off air are almost always network events — a saturated uplink, a firewall, packet loss on a bad circuit, a DNS or routing issue at the venue. Treating streaming as a networking discipline, with measurement and redundancy, is what separates a production that stays on air from one that hopes.

Capabilities we plan and integrate

  • Multi-destination simulcasting

    One encoded program distributed to several destinations at once (e.g. YouTube, LinkedIn, and a private page).

  • Backup / redundant streams

    A second encoder and network path configured as an automatic or manual failover for the primary stream.

  • Stream monitoring

    Continuous monitoring of encoder health, bitrate, dropped frames, and destination status throughout the broadcast.

  • Dedicated / temporary event internet

    Coordination of a dedicated circuit, VLAN, or static IPs with the venue or an ISP, plus on-site network testing before the event.

  • Bonded cellular uplink

    Multiple cellular modems across different carriers aggregated into one resilient uplink for locations without dependable wired internet.

Capabilities are scoped and confirmed per event. We do not claim certifications or assert a feature that has not been validated for your setup.

Frequently asked questions

Can we book just a streaming engineer without the rest of your crew?
Yes. That's a common booking. You provide the program feed and audio; we bring the encoding, connectivity, distribution and monitoring.
Which protocols do you work with?
RTMP for most platform destinations, SRT for resilient contribution over the public internet, NDI on the local production network, and bonded transport for cellular. The right choice depends on the network conditions of each hop.
Can you distribute one program to many destinations?
Yes — a single encode can be fanned out to multiple platforms and private pages at once, and a produced feed can be pushed into a Zoom or Teams session for interactive participants.
Do you provide documentation afterward?
For engineering bookings we provide a brief report: the configuration used, any events during the broadcast, bitrate and stability data, and recommendations for next time.

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Tell us the event date, venue and run of show. We'll come back with a plan and a number.

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