OTT · viewers on the internet
Streaming engine for your OTT product
Live and catch-up that scale with your audience. You keep the portal, apps and monetization — Catena delivers the video.
For teams shipping OTT
Not an ISP access product — for media and streaming where viewers watch over the open internet.
OTT / streaming service
You need delivery that does not cap growth — from tens of thousands to millions of viewers.
Media holding
Linear channels and catch-up for an IP audience: speed to launch and quality matter more than assembling servers by hand.
Broadcaster with IP viewers
You already have the feed — you need live, catch-up and quality control on the internet, not only a CDN cache.
If this sounds like you
Familiar? Then your current video delivery is already holding the product back.
Peaks break the stream
Premieres and sports must stay on air when the audience spikes far above a normal day.
Launching or rebuilding OTT
A new service or region needs a ready engine under your apps — not building the platform from scratch.
Catch-up and pause are must-haves
Viewers expect rewind and pause; archive depth follows the rights you have cleared.
Replacing an old vendor
Move channels and go live calmly — without risking the season on an unproven platform.
What the engine covers
Delivery for 10K–5M viewers and dozens to hundreds of channels — without building the cluster from scratch.
Live at scale
Ingest and packaging for channels and events — go live without reinventing the head-end.
Catch-up and pause live
Time-shift viewers notice — while your apps keep ownership of the UX.
Edge delivery
Fast start and zap on the open internet — built for OTT, not only private ISP networks.
Ops and the cluster
Monitoring and cluster patterns — without reinventing failover every season.
Up to 100 Gbit/s from one server
Dense delivery from a single node — less hardware for the same audience and simpler growth.
Your product stays yours
Catena sells delivery. UX, VOD, ads and subscriptions stay with you or your integrator.
In Catena scope
Ingest, transcoder, DVR/catch-up, edge, monitoring, cluster — the layer that keeps streams on air at scale.
Yours or your partner’s
Apps, portal UX, VOD catalog, ads and billing — not a forced all-in-one OTT suite.
How you start
Same engine either way — the path depends on what you already run.
Building or replacing delivery
Catena as the engine under your portal or SI stack. In the form: audience, live vs catch-up, go-live date.
Engine under your OTT productPortal already chosen
Keep a stalker-like portal or your apps — connect Catena over API without replacing the product layer.
Connect to what you haveStraight answers
Common questions before a pilot.
- Do you ship an OTT portal?
- No. Portal and apps stay yours or a partner’s; Catena is the delivery engine underneath.
- Isn’t there middleware for IPTV?
- Yes — for IPTV on an ISP network. That is not the OTT product layer.
- Why not CDN-only?
- Live, DVR and quality control need a head-end — not only an edge cache.
- We are not an ISP
- Fine. This page is for delivering TV to viewers on the internet — not access-network IPTV.
Engine under your OTT product
Audience size, live vs catch-up, existing portal — we will follow up with how Catena fits under your product.