Seamless Streaming, Anytime, Anywhere
Elevate your streaming strategy with our NPAW CDN Balancer Solutions. Optimize content delivery, enhance viewer experience, and excel in performance and cost efficiency.
How Does NPAW’s Intelligent CDN Balancing Work?
Discover NPAW’s On-Start and Mid-Stream CDN Balancing services, engineered to optimize your streaming experience. With the On-Start CDN Balancer, you benefit from an intelligent selection of the most suitable CDN from the beginning, reducing startup delays and enhancing load speed. As for ongoing sessions, the Mid-Stream CDN Balancer dynamically manages changes, ensuring smooth streaming despite traffic spikes or changing network paths. Furthermore, our Peer-to-Peer (P2P) integration slashes CDN costs by redistributing traffic, delivering considerable savings.
Enhanced User Experience
NPAW’s multi-CDN Balancer optimizes delivery paths to significantly improve loading times, minimize buffering, and eliminate errors, ensuring a superior viewing experience for your audience.
Cost Optimization
By strategically distributing traffic and utilizing CDNs efficiently, companies can significantly reduce delivery costs without sacrificing quality. Incorporate our P2P technology to further decrease traffic load on primary CDNs, unlocking additional savings while maintaining exceptional service standards.
Real-Time Monitoring
NPAW’s advanced system provides continuous oversight of network performance, traffic loads, and viewer locations. This data-driven approach enables intelligent routing decisions, ensuring content is delivered via the most optimal CDN pathways.
Watch our Mid-Stream CDN Balancer in action
Elevate your video Quality of Experience with our Mid-Stream CDN Balancer, reducing join times, buffering, latency, and rendering issues. Instantly adapt to network fluctuations, ensuring your audience enjoys seamless and high-quality streaming.
Automated chunk-level CDN selection
Download in parallel video chunks from different CDNs, with real-time and bidirectional communication between the client-side plugin and the server-side platform
CDN Balancer not only helps us tailor our CDN consumption to each of our audience segments’ needs, but it also lets us control costs and allocate our infrastructure resources in a way that’s not only beneficial for us, but gives our end users a better streaming experience.
Niklas Hammarbäck
Product Manager
NPAW Mid-Stream CDN Balancer: Redefining Streaming Dynamics
Enhanced Reliability
Proactively prevents interruptions by dynamically redirecting traffic, ensuring consistent streaming quality even during unexpected traffic surges or server disruptions.
Optimized Performance
Actively monitors network conditions in real-time to select the optimal CDN, minimizing buffering and enhancing the overall viewing experience.
Reduced CDN Costs
Strategically balances traffic across various CDNs, optimizing resource use and significantly cutting delivery costs while maintaining superior streaming quality.
KPI improvements after implementing Mid-Stream CDN Balancer
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Buffer Ratio
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Start-up Errors
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In-stream Errors
Benefits of NPAW’s Mid-Stream CDN Balancer
Optimized Content Delivery Paths
Reduced Startup Delays
Minimized Buffering During Playback
Enhanced Streaming Reliability
Dynamic CDN Switching
Improved Viewer Experience
Real-Time Network Adaptation
Cost-Efficient Traffic Management
Scalable Global Coverage
Seamless Integration with P2P
Robust GDPR Compliance
Optimize multi-CDN infrastructure for better QoS
Improve your M-CDN strategy
Analyze which of your currently used CDNs are performing well in real time. Know which is delivering the best user experience at which time and in which region.
Answer ‘what is my best CDN?’ with a CDN scoring tool
Know if your content is being delivered by the best performing CDN for any ISP and in any region. And use our scoring tool to generate a score for all CDNs.
Monitor alternative CDNs in real time
Check if switching to a different CDN would improve the user’s perceived quality of experience.
How Viaplay and NPAW built a smart M-CDN switching tool for video streaming
Learn how Viaplay, one of the leading European streaming services, and NPAW built CDN Balancer: a powerful, flexible, and resilient M-CDN balancing solution that automatically selects the best CDN according to business and audience requirements.
Improve your CDN strategy with NPAW
Contact us to receive a free product demo. Understand how your CDN strategy impacts your product.