NetActuate Expands VPU-as-a-Service to 15 Global Locations with NETINT VPU Acceleration
NetActuate, a leading provider of global infrastructure and
network services in more than 45 locations worldwide, announced that NETINT
Quadra Video Processing Units (VPUs) are now live in 15 of its global points of
presence, with additional locations available for custom deployments. The
expansion builds on the company's February partnership announcement and will be on display at NETINT's booth,
1.D49, throughout IBC 2026.
NetActuate's
VPU-as-a-Service offering provides the infrastructure needed to give
engineering teams direct, self-service access to purpose-built video-processing
silicon without the need to secure any servers or VPU cards themselves.
Customers attach a NETINT VPU directly to a virtual machine, or managed
Kubernetes node in NetActuate's network through a secure passthrough, with full
pipeline control, tooling, metrics, and observability. Integrations with bare
metal servers are also available.
Where a hyperscaler's black-box
transcoding service means submitting jobs into someone else's pipeline and
accepting its pricing and turnaround, NetActuate's model puts the VPU directly
in the customer's own VM or Kubernetes node, deployable in seconds rather than
days or weeks. The VPU works with the encoding software teams already run, open
source or commercial, so nobody has to give up a pipeline to get the economics
of dedicated silicon. Teams attach a VPU and keep the workflow they trust, at a
fraction of general-purpose cloud compute cost, with no lock-in to a single
provider's proprietary transcoding API. NETINT's own Bitstreams software and
Bitstreams Manager run on the VPU for teams that want a complete platform from
one vendor.
"Streaming
teams want the performance of dedicated video silicon without losing control of
their own workflow," said Randal Horne, Chief Revenue Officer at NETINT
Technologies. "NetActuate's expansion to 15 locations, combined with
self-service deployment and now the Marketplace, gives teams a fast, low-risk
way to prove out VPU-based encoding on real infrastructure before committing to
scale."
"NETINT
built the VPU category, and this is what deploying on it should feel like: you
pick your compute, you attach the accelerator, and you're running your own
pipeline in seconds instead of negotiating with a black box," said Mark
Mahle, CEO of NetActuate. "Pairing that with the Marketplace means a
customer can build a complete stack with encoding, streaming, delivery from
software they already trust, running in markets of their choice."
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