Multi-CDN as a dashboard
Two vendors, one graph, and a human who has to notice, decide and act while the event burns down. The failover exists on paper precisely until it is needed.
Solutions · Live events & media
One-off event delivery.
One night. No second chance.
Before
Verify while the stakes are still zero.
An event stream should be checked the way the venue is: in advance, against a list. Point the checker at your stream, import the delivery setup, and run the failover as a drill — kill a CDN on purpose and watch the sessions carry on — days before anyone is watching.
- Stream and player check before the event, not a post-mortem after it.
- The failover is rehearsed as a drill, not trusted as a diagram.
- Every CDN in the mix is scored on real traffic before doors open.
During
Insurance that acts, not a dashboard that watches.
A second CDN in a dashboard is a report. A second CDN behind mid-stream switching is a rescue: when one degrades during the event, affected sessions continue from the other — per viewer, without a restart, including the viewers already connected. And the war room gets live proof while it happens: the decision log and the analytics stream in real time, so the room watches decisions being made instead of tickets being opened.
Multi-CDN as a mechanism
The comparison runs continuously, the switch is automatic and per session, and the human reads reasons instead of guessing at causes. The failover is exercised all night, not invoked in panic.
After
Capacity for the night, not for the year.
Bring extra CDNs for the event, let the routing spread the load across them, and drop them the day after. The audience peak becomes a routing detail instead of an annual procurement — and the decision log becomes the debrief.
Rehearse the night before the night.
Check the stream, drill the failover, and walk in with a log instead of a hope.