Engineering, IT & AI · 1 categories

Media & Streaming Infrastructure

Media and streaming infrastructure software covers the encoding, transcoding, content delivery, and playout systems that broadcasters, streaming services, and studios use to prepare, store, and distribute video and audio at scale to viewers on any device.

Last assessed August 2026 · scored daily, published quarterly via The Continuum.

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