Quortex Link
Live video distribution in the cloud
Quortex Link is a cloud service for content owners, broadcasters, and sports rights holders to distribute professional live video channels to one partner or hundreds, anywhere in the world — deliver over SRT, Zixi, or RTMP.
No long-term commitment. No infrastructure to provision. Just reliable, cloud-powered distribution that scales with your needs.
Whether you’re running a one-off sporting event or managing 24/7 channels, you’re in control.
Cost savings
Move away from costly satellite or dedicated fiber links. Schedule the delivery of your content and pay only for what you really use.
Simplicity
Create and manage secure distribution links in seconds, no engineering team required. Monitor your operations from a single dashboard, on desktop or mobile.
Reliability
Geographically redundant infrastructure, automatic input failover, and real-time monitoring keep your live feeds reaching every destination.
Live feed delivery across five continents
From anywhere, to everywhere
Wherever your partners are, Quortex Link gets your content there. Ingest your feed from any location and let our global cloud network handle delivery to affiliates, broadcasters, and platforms across 16 regions on five continents.
Distribute a single SRT feed point-to-point or point-to-multipoint, to one recipient or hundreds, without provisioning any infrastructure.
One platform for your live operations
Real-time monitoring across every channel
Create new links in seconds and track every distribution from a single dashboard, on desktop or mobile.
Watch delivery quality and bitrate in real time across every feed, every region, every destination.
Built-in scheduling
Plan your distributions in advance
Set start and end times for each distribution and let Quortex Link handle the rest. Useful for sports calendars, event-based feeds, or any distribution that doesn’t run 24/7. You only pay when your feeds are live.
Already running a broadcast scheduling system? Sync schedules through our documented REST API.
An API-first platform
Automate your live distribution workflows
Quortex Link exposes every core capability through a documented REST API: launch channels, reconfigure them on the fly, update schedules, pull analytics, and retrieve billing data.
And of course, it comes at no extra cost.
Explore the API
Pay as you stream
Costs are calculated from your actual usage, without any monthly/annual commitment, and include automatic volume discounts.
Examples:
A Sport Event
$460
/ 20 games
- 20 games
- 3 hours per game
- SRT Delivery to 25 locations
- Highly Available setup
A 24/7 Channel
$1600
/ month
- 1 channel in 24/7
- SRT Delivery to 5 locations
- Highly Available setup
3x Scheduled Channels
$2400
/ month
- 3x Live Channels
- 12h per day in average
- SRT Delivery to 5 locations
- Highly Available setup
Looking for a customised Quortex solution?
Our services teams have you covered
Need a fully customised solution that fits seamlessly into your current architecture, leverages your cloud infrastructure, and integrates with multiple third-party products?
At Synamedia, we offer flexible options to meet your specific requirements, complete with custom pricing tailored to your unique use case.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Quortex?
Quortex.io is a self-service SaaS platform for professional live video distribution, streaming, content substitution and monetization and multi-CDN delivery. Quortex Link is one of its applications, focused on secure point-to-point and point-to-multipoint distribution of live video feeds to partners and affiliates worldwide.
What is Quortex Link?
Quortex Link is an application of Quortex for point to multipoint distribution of professional live video streams using public cloud. It is typically used to deliver live contents from right holders and content providers to broadcasters, affiliates, and platform worldwide.
Does it work for one-off events as well as permanent channels?
Yes. Quortex Link handles both 24/7 operations and event-based distribution. The built-in scheduler lets you plan and automate deliveries, and our documented REST API integrates with third-party scheduling systems.
What makes Quortex Link different?
Quortex Link is a self-service SaaS application. Define your source and destinations, without having to worry about provisioning or maintaining an underlying architecture, and Quortex Link handles the rest.
Easy to manage: the self-service platform abstracts technical complexity, with no setup team required. Immediate time to market thanks to fast affiliate onboarding. Usage-based pricing means you deploy only when needed, with a single invoice. And a 24/7 video NOC provides dedicated operations center support.
What if I don’t find the features I need?
Please contact us, we will work with you to create the exact Quortex solution you need.
How can I be sure that my content will be delivered in a reliable way?
Quortex Link uses protocols such as SRT, designed from the ground to deliver securely professional live video streams over any IP network. On top of that, Quortex Link comes with several high availability distribution architectures, ensuring that your premium contents will always reach your destinations.
How do I make sure that no unauthorized user can access my content?
All contents delivered by Quortex Link can be protected using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. On top of that, you can also apply IP filtering, ensuring that only authorized receivers will be able to access your streams.
In short, you can be sure that only authorized receivers will be able to receive and decrypt your premium contents!
Can I use Quortex Link to deliver streams worldwide, accross multiple regions?
Of course! Quortex link uses secured transport protocol, allowing to deliver our streams even over long distance.
To increase further the quality of the delivery, we use a private network backbone to tranport live streams between different regions, only using public internet for ground-to-cloud connectivity from a location close to your on-premise equipments.
I want to use AWS DirectConnect to establish a ground-to-cloud link with Quortex Link. Is it possible?
Ground-to-cloud or cloud-to-ground connectivity using AWS DirectConnect can be established by our support team. Please contact us, our team will be happy to help!
Can I use Quortex Link to deliver 4K video contents or MPTS (Multi-Program TS) for example?
Yes! We are fully agnostic to the content, and will deliver it without any stream modification. This means that you can transport any type of TS streams with any video or audio content inside.
I want to deliver SCTE-35 to my affiliates. Do you support it?
Yes. As long as your input source contains SCTE-35 (or any other type of marker), we will passhtrough the markers to all locations without any modification.
Can I ingest my streams from anywhere?
Sure! Your streams can be ingested from anywhere. We will select the best possible ingest point based on your localization. We use SRT as the input protocol. If you don’t have SRT streams, our multicast to SRT gateway can help for sure!.
