BitFire Media Platform

BitFire has built the world’s most advanced media ecosystem, driven by our patent-pending technology, and supported by our industry-leading 24/7/365 US-based Network Operations Center.

Nowhere else can you find a single, comprehensive platform that allows you to create entire production workflows at any scale by leveraging a revolutionary convergence of a global transmission network and software-defined production tools that run seamlessly, in the cloud and in your facility.

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BitFire Transport Network

Utilizing the world’s most advanced live media transport network, BitFire’s Media Platform has the best balance of low latency, high reliability, and the best support and engineering teams in the industry.

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BitFire Transport Protocol

Highly resilient UDP data transport over the public Internet requires special care to ensure every packet reaches its destination.

The BitFire Transport Protocol utilizes multi-hop
recovery methods and real-time routing decisions to provide the highest possible resiliency for every single feed.

BitFire Transport Network delivers Ultra-low latency

Ultra Low Latency

Glass-to-glass latency under a half-second. It's wicked fast, but more importantly, it's deterministic and configurable to suit your needs and priorities.

BitFire Transport Network keeps your broadcast feeds in sync

Intrinsically Synchronized

Every feed in sync. Always.
Our network utilizes a global clock to ensure that all of your feeds are perfectly synchronized, with deterministic end-to-end latency.

BitFire Transport Network recovers feeds in shorter hops

Multi-Hop Recovery

Instead of one long journey across the internet, the BitFire Transport Network leverages many shorter hops on the way to your destinations. This shortens the time it takes to recover packets that might get lost along the way, keeping overall latency down while providing unmatched reliability.

BitFire Transport Network operates on a global scale

Global Network

Our global-scale, distributed transport network has points of presence in every major region, so entry and exit points are close to you and your show.

Single Source, Unlimited Destinations

Reduce the stress on your hardware, local network, and internet connection. Once a feed enters the network once, it's available everywhere. Let the BitFire Network do the heavy lifting by creating unlimited copies to send to unlimited destinations.

The Next-Generation Media Ecosystem

BitFire's advanced media ecosystem lets you ingest video and audio to our IP-based Transport Network from anywhere in the world. With multiple transit nodes, each transmission hop allows shorter recovery times to recover lost packets, with ultra-low latency, to ensure that every feed is always in sync, and available in multiple locations, to our Cloud Multiviewer, Cloud Recorder, Cloud Switcher, and our FireBridge Monitor.

Cloud Production Tools

BitFire’s full suite of production tools are built to converge the best of the cloud, on-prem hardware, and traditional broadcast systems in a modern hybrid workflow.

BitFire FireBridge Control Room

FireBridge

FireBridge is BitFire’s versatile browser-based entrypoint into the BitFire Media Platform.
Monitor, communicate, contribute, and control, all right in your web browser.

BitFire FireBridge Live Shot

FireBridge Live Shot

Easily bring guests and contributors into your broadcast workflow without the need for complicated scalers and converters. Clean, discrete video and audio from guests, HD-SDI signals up to 1080p, IFB comms as AES67, seamlessly integrates with BitFire Engines.

BitFire FireBridge Monitor on Handheld Device

FireBridge Monitor

Low latency WebRTC based monitoring of any feed in the BitFire Media Platform.

Comms

Designed like a traditional matrix intercom system, featuring PLs, IFBs with All-Call, and Latch / Non-Latch functionality, every cloud-based comms channel can be simultaneously accessed from your browser using FireBridge and/or as AES67 on BitFire Engines.

BitFire Media Platform Multiviewer

Cloud Multiviewer

Full resolution multiviewer, complete with custom labeling, configurable audio meters, and video format indicators in configurations up to a 36-box.
Book it to an Engine for use in a production environment, or to FireBridge to monitor your production from anywhere.

BitFire Media Platform on Handheld Device

Cloud Switcher

A scalable, cloud-deployable live video production switcher and audio mixer, complete with HTML-5 keyers. When live production switchers are this easy to deploy, they can fill many roles, from producing a live show, to overlaying a bug or graphics package in your air chain.

BitFire Cloud Recorder

Cloud Recorder

Easily record your feeds in the cloud. We haven't thought of a catchy name for it, but it's still pretty cool.

Hardware

BitFire T4 Engine

The BitFire Engine delivers four feeds to your broadcast

A powerful, high-density live video encoding and transport engine built to scale with your professional environment, delivering broadcast-caliber video, audio, and data signals to multiple destinations via the BitFire Transport Network.

  • Encoder Capability: Up to 4x Paths of 1080p59.94
    (2x Paths of 10-bit 1080p59.94 HDR)
  • Decoder Capability: Up to 4x Paths of 1080p59.94
  • 3G-SDI Ports: (4) BNC*
    *All BNC ports are bidirectional and can transmit or receive
    on a booking by booking basis
  • Reference Port: (1) BNC (Black Burst or Tri-Level)
  • Native AES67 Integration
  • Dimensions: 17.03” x 14.03” x 1.75”
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BitFire NUC Engine

The BitFire NUC Engine delivers versatile broadcast power in a small package

A quiet, small form-factor live video encoding and transport engine built for a minimal on-site footprint, delivering broadcast-caliber video, audio, and data signals to multiple destinations via the BitFire Transport Network.

  • Encoder Capability: Up to 2x Paths of 1080p59.94
    (1x Path of 10-bit 1080p59.94 HDR)
  • Decoder Capability: Up to 4x Paths of 1080p59.94
  • 3G-SDI Ports: (4) BNC*
    *All BNC ports are bidirectional and can transmit or receive
    on a booking by booking basis
  • Reference Port: (1) BNC (Black Burst or Tri-Level)
  • Native AES67 Integration
  • Dimensions 9.37” x 8.5” x 3.78”
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Inferno: Centralized Cloud Control

BitFire Inferno provides an easy to use platform for managing your bookings.

BitFire Inferno provides an easy to use "Source to Destination" Platform for managing your bookings. Feeds auto-negotiate and automatically route through the BitFire Transport Network.

  • Monitor feed health with real-time telemetry and diagnostic information about every packet
  • Monitor Feed Health, Bitrate, Margin, Underlying Loss
  • Adjust Bitrate, Latency, and other settings per feed
  • Create FireBridge Monitor links to view your content in real-time

Unparalleled Support

24/7/365 Network Operations Center is staffed by US-Based
BitFire Transmission Engineers.

BitFire's unparalleled support is always available