Media Services Live 4 is being discontinuedAkamai will discontinue Media Services Live 4 in December 2026 and replace it with Media Services Live 5 (powered by Harmonic). Reach out to your Akamai Account Team to add MSL5 to your contract and begin the migration. See how to migrate and how to use reports. Note that existing MSL4 streams and reports will be deactivated in PORTAL_NAME on or soon after December 31, 2026.
The Media Services Live (MSL) Stream Provisioning API lets you publish live streaming media content and retrieve it through the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform or any content delivery network (CDN). These operations are targeted primarily for Over-the-top (OTT) applications, but can also be used for other live streaming events.
These are two main parts of the workflow:
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Publish - directly push content from encoders into liveOrigin™ through the Akamai ingest server.
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Delivery - pull the content that was earlier published into liveOrigin through a CDN.