Speedify × Broadcast
Bond Starlink for live production. The stream that doesn't drop on air.
01 · The Problem
A live broadcast can't pause and reconnect.
Live broadcast contribution is the most demanding workload connectivity ever sees. The stream is encoded at fixed bitrate, packets arrive in order, and the moment one drops the audience hears the audio glitch and sees the video freeze. Every viewer notices. The control room notices. Sometimes the social media team notices first.
For a sideline ENG crew at a college game, that's a missed touchdown highlight. For a breaking news package coming out of a press conference, it's the moment the anchor has to apologize for the technical difficulty. For an OB truck running a multi-camera live, it's a director cutting away from the program feed because the contribution path went sideways. None of these are recoverable in post.
A single Starlink dish can deliver broadcast-grade throughput. It's also one satellite handoff away from a freeze frame on national television.
02 · The Solution
One bonded uplink. Quality and reliability, inseparable.
Speedify bonds multiple Starlink dishes plus 4G/5G cellular from any carrier and any wired uplink into a single encrypted connection at the packet level. Every active session, including a live encoder feed, draws from the combined bandwidth of every active link. If one dish loses sight of the constellation or a cellular tower drops, the others absorb the traffic in milliseconds. The encoder doesn't notice. The viewer doesn't either.
- Multiple Starlink dishes provide independent satellite paths — no two enter handoff at the same moment, so the transition is invisible to the encoder
- Cellular adds carrier-diverse redundancy when bandwidth is available — a single venue or a single tower can't take the stream down
- Speedify runs encrypted (AES-256-GCM) end-to-end, with the same low-latency tunnel during normal operation and during failover
- Per-link priorities can keep contribution-path traffic separate from crew comms or guest Wi-Fi sharing the same vehicle
// what control sees
A confidence monitor that doesn't blink.
03 · Scenarios
Built for every kind of live.
01 / News in the field
Single-operator kits that don't drop the live shot
02 / Sports and live events
Dedicated bonded uplink that survives a packed venue
03 / Breaking news and live trucks
Connectivity that arrives faster than the network engineer
04 / Studio failover and REMI
A second path the studio control room can rely on
04 · Stack
Speedify works under the encoders you already use.
Most broadcast operations already run a bonded encoder - LiveU, TVU, Dejero, Haivision, or similar. These encoders bond cellular modems and Wi-Fi into a contribution feed and handle the broadcast-specific tasks: forward error correction, hitless failover at the encoded-stream level, and SRT/RIST/ARQ transport into the receiver at the studio.
Speedify operates one layer below. It bonds the WAN connections themselves - multiple Starlink dishes, cellular from any carrier, wired uplinks where they exist - into a single resilient network path. The bonded encoder sees a single more-resilient internet connection underneath it, and uses that as one of its inputs.
The combination is additive: the encoder handles broadcast-grade transport, Speedify handles the underlying network resilience. Each layer covers a different failure mode. Together they make the contribution feed hard to take off air, which is what every minute of paid airtime above it depends on.
05 · The Solution
Two ways to deploy in the field.
Network level
Run Speedify on a supported bonding router so every device in the rig - bonded encoder, IFB systems, comms, monitoring laptops - benefits from bonded connectivity without per-device installation. Two paths:
- Supported OpenWrt routers: With a Speedify for Routers license.
- Powered by Speedify routers: Speedify is preinstalled and ready to configure.
For OB trucks, flypacks, and broadcast integrators building hardened production stacks, the Speedify SDK is available for direct integration with existing broadcast IT systems.
Device level
Install the Speedify app directly on a single-operator rig - the laptop running the bonded encoder software, a remote production workstation, or any high-priority device. Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Best for: ENG crews running software-encoder workflows, single-operator livestream rigs, and field journalists who deploy out of a backpack.
06 · Visibility
Every link, on screen, before it shows on air.
Speedify integrates directly with Starlink's dish telemetry to surface real-time link health on the Speedify dashboard. Obstruction events, signal degradation, thermal throttling, and hardware faults appear within 15 seconds of detection — typically before the bonded encoder reports a bitrate dip and well before the audience sees anything.
Each dish reports independently, so an engineer in the truck or back at the network operations center can pinpoint exactly which link is degrading.