Case Study: Stiver Inc. achieves ultra-low latency, reliable live-event production with Haivision

How Haivision’s Low Latency Solutions are Helping Stiver Inc. Produce Live Events

Stiver is a family‑run, full‑service broadcast and event production company that needed a more reliable, portable and cost‑effective way to deliver live video as pandemic restrictions changed workflows. To meet those challenges they adopted Haivision solutions over the last two years, acquiring Makito X4 video encoders and decoders and using Haivision Hub to offer IP transmission as a rental option for clients.

Haivision’s low‑latency SRT workflow, Makito X4 hardware and Path Redundancy (hitless protection switching) let Stiver achieve glass‑to‑glass latency as low as 150–200 ms versus the 1.5–2 second delays common with satellite or bonded cellular, and allowed them to transmit feeds to Atlanta without satellite trucks by relying on Haivision’s redundancy. The result: more plug‑and‑play deployments that don’t require an onsite engineer, demonstrable cost savings, and proven reliability in remote locations with no reported failures.

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