Honeycast specializes in webcasting and live video streaming. With crews located in various cities throughout the continental United States, they cover events of all sizes across the country. With Honeycast, businesses can professionally stream live events to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch or custom web properties. Honeycast’s live video production services are targeted for internal corporate communications, instructional webcasts, press events and corporate town halls.

Reliance on corporate networks for webcasting and live streaming was resulting in unsatisfactory performance and bandwidth, negatively impacting their core services

When Ken Makow, the owner of Honeycast, required Internet connectivity for his services, such as live video production for internal corporate communications, instructional webcasts, press events and corporate town halls, his only option was relying on his customer’s corporate networks. At times this posed a challenge for a variety of reasons such as blocked ports, security lockdowns or other firewall or quality-of-service related issues. As a result, the local bandwidth made available to him was not sufficient or reliable enough to guarantee flawless webcasting and live streaming – the company’s sole products.

Honeycast added Mushroom Networks’ Streamer, a 4G/LTE bonding device as part of its service offering, enabling unmatched reliability and redundancy for video streaming.

Honeycast owner Ken Makow recalls, “Initially I looked at LTE wireless for backup purposes. When I was referred to Mushroom Networks’ LTE bonding device Streamer, a light bulb went off and I realized I didn’t need to rely on risky local connectivity anymore. With Streamer I get ample bandwidth and more importantly unbelievable fidelity. I never ever had a glitch in any of my live video projects since introducing the Mushroom Networks Streamer – period”.

Honeycast offers flexible services with support for any of the major CDNs including Amazon, Wowza, Microsoft Azure, Akamai or any others that their clients prefer. Similarly, Honeycast leverages software encoders such as Wirecast, Flash Media Encoder or appliance-based encoders such as Haivision, Aja or Osprey. “Streamer is extremely flexible. I can use any encoder, or any CDN that my project requires and Mushroom Networks’ Streamer simply plugs into my workflow and bonds my two Verizon, two AT&T and two T-Mobile LTE sim cards flawlessly”, added Ken.

Mushroom Networks’ Streamer is a small, portable appliance that can house 2, 4 or 8 sim cards and can combine the LTE signals into a single bonded Internet connection that is optimized for live video streaming. Mushroom Networks’ Video Armor technology provides guaranteed packet delivery to the video server, even during wireless network problems such as packet loss, delay, jitter or even full card disconnects.

Streamer proved to be the most robust way of delivering video over IP networks in the industry. Webcasting as well as point-to-point video delivery projects can benefit from these solutions to create a predictable IP connectivity by combining unpredictable channels.

Boost in Webcasting and Live Streaming Performance:

Streamer appliances were used to bond multiple cellular modems from different providers. The resulting internet connectivity resulted in flawless performance previously unobtained using local corporate networks.

Boost in WAN Reliability:

Since Streamer appliances are capable of self-healing and intelligently responding to network problems and then routing around those issues, WAN reliability was greatly improved.

Reduced Emergency Calls & Related Costs:

Implementing Streamer significantly reduced emergency calls for IT problem tickets as most WAN-related outages and emergencies will be shielded from the users.

Great Return on Investment:

The capital expenditure was recovered very quickly, with significantly reduced downtime and troubleshooting of network problem.

Specialized SDN tunnels:

Streamer offers SD-WAN with Broadband Bonding. This means that specialized tunnels customized for the specific application at hand will fit your networking needs like a glove. As an example, Video Armor is a tunnel that optimizes video traffic in the network to shield the stream against any network performance fluctuations and network outages.

Honeycast specializes in webcasting and live video streaming. With crews located in various cities throughout the continental United States, they cover events of all sizes across the country. If their internet connectivity isn’t rock solid, their business suffers dramatically. They have chosen Streamer™ by Mushroom Networks for the capability of streaming live high-quality video over bonded 3G/4G/LTE wireless from any location. By creating overlay tunnels between Mushroom appliances that can combine various Internet lines, Honeycast was able to create high-speed IP tunnels that provided performance and reliability that no single service was able to come close to matching.