Leveling Up Live Streaming: Akamai and Harmonic Bring Video Workflows to the Cloud
The next generation of Akamai Media Services Live is powered by
Running on Akamai Cloud, MSL5 allows media companies to deploy critical video workloads and deliver content from as close to viewers as possible, ensuring lower latency, greater reliability, and more consistent performance across networks and devices. The seamless upgrade from MSL4 to MSL5 can be executed at the press of a button.
"Harmonic is proud to partner with Akamai and bring the most reliable and highest quality streaming stack to Akamai's powerful distributed media cloud infrastructure," said
Out of the box, Akamai MSL5 comes with the following enhancements:
- Faster performance — Reduced time to first byte (TTFB) and low-latency HLS delivery (5–7 seconds end-to-end) for more responsive live streams
- Expanded DVR window — Live DVR extended from 30 minutes to 12 hours, giving audiences more control to pause, rewind, and replay
- Streamlined user experience — Streams provisioned in just five seconds, plus clearer interfaces with enhanced metrics and system status at a glance
- Precision event tools — The event management API supports subsegment accuracy clipping to create high-quality highlights from premium events
"Live sports are driving massive global audiences and streaming platforms are spending billions on rights every year to control the fan experience," said
MSL5 marks the beginning of an ongoing evolution, with future updates focused on creating even greater efficiency and expanded monetization capabilities. Premium over-the-top live and low-latency transcoding and server-side ad insertion — including innovative formats, such as in-stream advertising — will help further improve video quality, viewer experience, and revenue-generating opportunities.
Akamai and Harmonic are exhibiting at IBC2025 in
About Harmonic
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in virtualized broadband and video delivery solutions, enables media companies and service providers to deliver ultra-high-quality video streaming and broadcast services to consumers globally. The company revolutionized broadband networking via the industry's first virtualized broadband solution, enabling cable operators to more flexibly deploy gigabit internet service to consumers' homes and mobile devices. Whether simplifying OTT video delivery via innovative cloud and software platforms or powering the delivery of gigabit broadband services, Harmonic is changing the way media companies and service providers monetize live and on-demand content on every screen. More information is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
About Akamai
Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Its market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow
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