Articles and deep-dives

The Main Profile builds upon the features of the Simple Profile to provide backwards compatibility, while opening the door for full-scale adoption across the Internet. This paper will provide a sneak peak of the technology being considered for ratification by the RIST working group, as well as the applications behind why the technology is commercially viable.

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Low-latency, cost-effective video contribution over the Internet in a multi-vendor environment was made possible by RIST Simple Profile. With the introduction of the RIST Main Profile, we have the addition of a number of critical features to Simple Profile.  The most important of these features is encryption (and associated authentication).

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Though some might say that the combination of media encryption and an open source standard such as RIST is a contradiction in terms, quite the opposite is the case. In the upcoming RIST Main Profile actually two encryption schemes are described, DTLS and Pre-Shared Keys.

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For a long time, broadcast industry experts have talked about the challenges of streaming live video over IP. Live streaming over IP needs to cope with both packet loss and jitter. However, there is a third and more menacing problem – bandwidth availability. And this is where adaptivity comes in.

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Mankin Media built their contribution network over the open Internet. Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) gives them the reliability and flexibility necessary to provide their services, reducing their infrastructure cost by 90%, their time-to-market for new services with 50% and eliminated costly long term infrastructure contracts.

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