Quortex Edge Featured
CDN on demand from Quortex: cloud-native, just-in-time live video delivery.
Quortex Edge (formerly "Fluid Edge") is Quortex's cloud-native content delivery and edge-streaming product, delivered as "CDN on demand." Quortex, the streaming brand of Synamedia, replaces always-on, statically-provisioned delivery with a Just-in-Time Everything (JiTE) architecture that spins resources up only while viewers are watching and frees them the moment they are not. Paired with NetActuate's global edge, Quortex Edge lets you place just-in-time delivery close to your audience across dozens of PoPs, without running a fleet of idle servers.
Key features
- CDN on demand: edge and cache capacity is created just in time from a Quortex cloud control plane, and released automatically when idle
- Just-in-Time Everything (JiTE) pull architecture: streams are built segment by segment only when requested, so you pay for exactly the resources in use
- Cloud-native, stateless, containerized microservices for transcoding, packaging, encryption, and delivery, designed around sub-10-second segments
- Pay-as-you-stream economics: no viewers means no running channels and no spend, cutting operational cost and energy use dramatically
- Templates authored in Quortex are run up on the control plane, so delivery topologies are reproducible and fast to launch
- Built for live at scale, including live sports, with resilient failover and elastic burst handling
- Deploy across NetActuate's global footprint of edge PoPs to keep delivery paths short and quality high
Use cases
- Live sports and event streaming that must scale instantly for a spike and cost nothing between events
- OTT and D2C operators wanting elastic, pay-as-you-use CDN capacity instead of committed, always-on delivery
- Broadcasters and rights owners distributing IP-native video with a software-based, cloud-controlled edge
- Multi-region delivery where placing edge capacity near each audience reduces latency and egress
Why run it on the NetActuate edge Quortex Edge is delivered from a cloud control plane; NetActuate provides the global edge it runs on. Deploying just-in-time delivery into NetActuate PoPs near your viewers keeps delivery paths short, improves quality of experience, and pairs Quortex's pay-as-you-stream model with NetActuate's global anycast network and PoP operations. NetActuate operates the infrastructure and network; Quortex operates the streaming software and control plane.
To get started, visit the Quortex platform to request access, then bring your Quortex account to deploy just-in-time delivery across the NetActuate edge.
Frequently asked questions
How do I deploy Quortex Edge on NetActuate?
Use the Deploy on NetActuate button to talk to our team. We provision Quortex Edge on a NetActuate virtual machine in the point of presence you choose, close to your audience. Each deployment runs in the single location you select.
What does it cost to run Quortex Edge?
Quortex Edge is offered as a partner-provided trial: deploy it to evaluate, and pay only NetActuate's standard compute rates for the virtual-machine size and point of presence you choose. NetActuate adds no usage-based software fees.
Where can Quortex Edge run?
Quortex Edge can be deployed in any of NetActuate's 45+ points of presence across every continent, so you can place ingest, transcode, delivery and caching close to your contributors and viewers.
Who supports Quortex Edge?
NetActuate operates and supports the underlying infrastructure - the virtual machine, network and edge platform. The application itself is supported by its vendor, Quortex.
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