OTT Streaming Platform Infrastructure: Surviving Live Events

Diagram of a converged live and VOD streaming pipeline with backup ingest, multi-CDN failover, and redundant DRM license servers

OTT platforms rarely fail under steady VOD traffic. They fail during a live event or a sudden traffic spike, because that’s the one moment where three separate failure points, ingest and encoder redundancy, CDN capacity and failover, and DRM license server availability, all have to hold simultaneously under load the platform rarely sees. Most teams […]