LTN and Appear have announced a new collaboration, which will combine Appear’s X Platform and LTN’s global network to deliver an integrated solution for live event contribution and distribution, as the company has claimed in a statement.

“The satellite-to-IP transition is no longer theoretical. Broadcasters are operating IP at scale today. By combining Appear’s best-in-class encoding with LTN’s fully managed global network, we’re delivering the infrastructure and execution layer required to power that shift”, explains Malik Khan, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of LTN.

Designed for mission-critical live sports and broadcasts, the new infrastructure model looks forward to offering customers real-time operational transparency, proactive network management, and service assurance.

Appear’s X Platform provides encoding and decoding supporting JPEG XS, JPEG 2000, AVC, HEVC, and ST 2110 workflows, deployed across Tier-1 broadcast and telco environments. Integrated directly into LTN’s purpose-built IP backbone, Appear-originated feeds are transported to any destination worldwide.

Additionally, LTN extends those feeds into global distribution, adding point-to-multipoint delivery, conditional access, rights management, multi-language versioning, graphics insertion, and metadata enrichment to try to drive monetization across linear, OTT, and FAST platforms.

The joint proposition supports onsite production, REMI workflows, centralized production models, and hybrid OTT distributio.

“Appear’s technology is trusted by the world’s most demanding live productions. Integrating the X Platform within the LTN Network extends that performance across a managed, global distribution backbone — enabling customers to scale with confidence”, affirms Ed McGivern, General Manager North America at Appear.