Cobalt’s SafeLink Gateway, which reliably transports any audio and video content over the Internet with low latency, is now available as a cloud solution in addition to the openGear form factor on the company’s OG-PC card.
Named SafeLink 8TS, the solution is ideal for cloud redundancy switching, as well as ground-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground transmission using the Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) standard.
SafeLink is compression-agnostic and can protect any type of transport stream. With up to eight streaming sessions and each session offering up to eight discrete transmit and eight receive redundant (or aggregated) paths, the solution has the potential to transport content to 64 destinations and it is ideal for providing link protection to existing encoding/decoding infrastructures. SafeLink can also support up to eight RIST Main Profile tunnels, each of which can support any arbitrary number of streams.
SafeLink’s control can be handled via a free dashboard and it includes support for User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), Forward Error Correction (FEC), and RIST Main Profile, with encryption and authentication. SafeLink is also available as a software license.
SafeLink hardware redundancy — Cobalt is also announcing the availability of 1+1 redundancy for the SafeLink Gateway. For high-availability applications, it is now possible to commission a backup SafeLink, which automatically mirrors the configuration of the primary and takes over if it fails.
Be double safe when linking content over unsecured networks.