0%
churn from buffering
Playback stutter
Frequent buffering and slow first frame hurt retention and conversion.
Streaming & media
Ultra-fastStreaming deliverySolutions
Covering live, on-demand, and short video—3,000+ edge nodes, intelligent routing, and smooth playback at billion-user scale.
Edge previewHLS · LL-HLS
LIVE
3000+ Nodes
<1s Latency
Challenges
Core challenges for streaming
Concurrency, latency, and global delivery—every link matters.
0ms+
cross-region RTT
Global delivery
High latency and packet loss make consistent QoE hard worldwide.
0%
content piracy impact
Content security
Hotlinking, restreaming, and illegal capture threaten revenue and rights.
0%
spend on bandwidth
Cost pressure
Bandwidth is expensive; traffic spikes need elastic scale and ROI clarity.
Solution
How we solve it
End-to-end acceleration and protection built for streaming workloads.
Closed-loop acceleration
action4 sec
Global smart delivery
3,000+ edge nodes · smart routing · worldwide footprint
routing · edge
inputLive
Streaming request
Live/VOD requests automatically trigger the acceleration path.
routing · edge
output99.99% SLA
Smooth playback
Protected delivery with premium QoE for every viewer.
routing · edge
Security & optimization
DRM · adaptive bitrate · ~40% cost optimization
Scenarios
Full-spectrum streaming coverage
Live, on-demand, and short video—tailored delivery paths.
Live
Live streaming acceleration
Ultra-low latency for gaming, commerce, sports, and education—millions of concurrent viewers, chat, and co-hosting with sub-second glass-to-glass delay.
<300ms
End-to-end
0.04%
Stall rate
99.99%
Ingest SLA
VOD
Video on demand
Prefetching and ABR for OTT and online learning—sub-200ms first frame, <0.5% rebuffering, 4K/8K ready.
98.7%
Cache hit
↓42%
Bandwidth cost
4K@60
Top profile
Short
Short video acceleration
Distributed upload, edge prefetch, and moderation-friendly pipelines—sub-100ms first frame and buttery feeds.
180ms
First frame
+38%
Completion
0.6s
Swipe load
Full-stack live pipeline
Ingest → Transcode → Deliver → Play · end-to-end observable
Sudun pipeline connects ingest, transcode, delivery and playback — each stage exposes live KPIs and self-healing on failure.
18,420/s
Data flow
24.6 Mbps
Live KPI
2,148,500
Self-heal
STG·01
Ingest
RTMP / SRT / WebRTC ingest with primary-backup auto-switch
12msHandshake
STG·02
Transcode
H.264 / H.265 / AV1 multi-tier · AI codec saves 28% bandwidth
↓28%Bitrate cut
STG·03
Deliver
Anycast + smart routing across 2,800+ edge nodes
98.7%Cache hit
STG·04
Playback
ABR + packet-loss recovery · sub-second first frame
<300msEnd-to-end
TTFF Waterfall
Break down every millisecond of first-frame
Decompose TTFF into 7 segments: DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP, manifest, init segment and frame decode. Direct vs Sudun accelerated, side by side.
DirectSudunFirst-frame speedup · 80.2%
Direct TTFF
2920ms
Sudun TTFF
579ms
-2341ms · 80.2%
First-frame speedup
80.2%
Latency tiers
HLS / LL-HLS / WebRTC · pick the right protocol at a glance
Side-by-side comparison of three mainstream low-latency protocols with recommended use cases — VOD, interactive live, voice chat, cloud gaming.
0 ms~ 1 s~ 5 s~ 30 s+
Customers
Trusted by streaming platforms
Accelerating and protecting hundreds of video workloads worldwide.
After onboarding, first-frame time dropped from 800ms to 150ms and retention rose 35%—a step change for our product.
David Chen
VP Engineering · major video platform
Case study
Twitch
How one team scaled real-time interactive live to millions of concurrent viewers
Research
Streaming trends and best practices
Ultra-low-latency live: edge scheduling & QUIC
streaming · global nodes & smart routing
View all reportsVOD & short video: first frame and rebuffering
streaming · ABR & prefetching
View all reportsProtect and accelerate your streaming stack
Enterprise-grade acceleration and protection—ready to evaluate.