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Dec 9, 2025
Vindral becomes Akamai ISV Partner for Low Latency Streaming
Benzinga
UMEÅ, Sweden, Dec. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Swedish live streaming platform Vindral has been serving clients within sports, auctions, iGaming and live events with ultra-low latency streaming for over 10 years. Recently awarded Silver in the prestigious SportsPro Media Awards, Vindral Live focuses particularly on configurable latency, with the possibility of going as low as 150 milliseconds glass-to-glass, while keeping viewers in sync.
An exciting partnership is now formed, where Vindral becomes one of the first 5 partners in Akamai's ISV Catalyst program. The aim is to combine the reach and infrastructural resilience of Akamai with the future-ready streaming stack provided by Vindral.
Both companies are active in the community that's formed around Media over QUIC, with Vindral already serving clients end-to-end using this emerging standard.
"As our strategic direction is to always be future ready, the addition of Media over QUIC made sense for us and we made the decision to adopt it, and to work with the community in adding to it, almost 2 years ago. While it's not the only protocol we support, the joint interest also expressed by Akamai is an energizer for our partnership.", says Ian Jefferson, Business Development at Vindral.
A point of great relevance is the relationship between software and infrastructure. No service is stronger than the underlying building blocks; Vindral Live comes with a promise of high performance, which requires robust infrastructure of the quality that Akamai is renowned for.
"The global reach and reliability of our cloud is best demonstrated through performant applications built on top of it. Vindral, as a strong player in the live streaming space, is a great match for us since deterministic latency, and low latency, are highly attractive characteristics that showcase what can be achieved on our platform.", says Kevin Murray, Strategic Partnerships at Akamai.
Vindral Live exists both as a cloud service (LiveCloud) and a live str
