Zixi and Ateme have announced an expanded strategic partnership to help broadcasters and content owners accelerate the transition from satellite to resilient IP and cloud-based workflows. By combining Zixi’s software-defined transport platform with Ateme’s video processing and delivery solutions, the companies are evolving their long-standing relationship into a jointly engineered, co-marketed collaboration focused on premium live event contribution and distribution.
As broadcasters and content owners face rising satellite costs, shrinking transponder availability and mounting pressure to deliver premium live experiences at scale, the combination of Ateme’s encoding efficiency and Zixi’s reliable, protocol-agnostic IP transport layer gives customers a proven, end-to-end alternative that spans contribution, distribution and delivery across on-premises, hybrid and fully cloud environments.
“This is a shift from selling alongside each other to building solutions together,” said Marc Aldrich, CEO, Zixi. “Our customers don’t want two vendors and two roadmaps. They want one integrated workflow they can trust for their most important live moments. By aligning our engineering, our go-to-market and our commercial models with Ateme, we’re removing friction and giving the market a clear, resilient path off legacy satellite and into the cloud.”
Rather than forcing a disruptive rip-and-replace, the joint solution lets broadcasters augment existing satellite infrastructure with managed IP paths, improving resiliency, adding capacity and reducing distribution costs. Ateme’s bandwidth-efficient encoding paired with Zixi’s error-corrected, multi-path transport delivers broadcast-grade reliability over commodity networks, giving operators a low-risk on-ramp to a hybrid satellite-plus-IP model.
For live sports and premium live programming, the partnership targets the two things that matter most: quality and reliability under real-world network conditions. The combined workflow supports low-latency contribution and distribution at scale, so producers can move high-value live feeds with confidence and consistency across any distance or destination.
“Zixi and Ateme share a commitment to openness and flexibility that helps customers evolve their workflows without disruption,” said Julien Mandel, Senior Solution Director for Contribution and Distribution at Ateme. “Pairing Ateme’s industry-leading encoding efficiency with Zixi’s transport, we’re helping customers improve quality, optimise bandwidth and transition from satellite to resilient IP workflows at their own pace.”
As the industry shifts from capital-intensive hardware to flexible, software-defined and cloud-native operations, the two companies are aligning their technology and solution strategies to give customers a single, coherent migration path. Together, Zixi and Ateme help teams move contribution, processing and delivery workflows into the cloud incrementally, preserving quality and operational control while unlocking elasticity and lower total cost of ownership.
Central to the announcement is a redefined commercial relationship. Moving beyond a transactional, vendor-based arrangement, Zixi and Ateme are establishing a joint go-to-market approach that includes coordinated solution engineering, aligned account planning, co-selling and shared reference architectures. The result is a partner-driven engagement model that simplifies procurement, accelerates deployment and gives customers a single, accountable solution rather than a collection of point products.
The companies will showcase joint solutions at IBC2026 at RAI Amsterdam from 11–14 September, in Hall 5 on the Zixi stand (5.A76) and in Hall 1 on the Ateme stand (1.D55).
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