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Use case

Episode and mezzanine delivery for broadcasters and OTT platforms

Boita for broadcast and OTT delivery is a way to deliver IMF packages, MXF masters and episode drops to a platform before the cut-off, holding line rate over distance, resuming in the desktop app if anything drops, with a checksum per file and a receipt that shows what landed and when — one use of Boita, the large-file transfer workspace for anyone who moves a lot of data.

A delivery window is a hard edge. Boita gets mezzanine masters and episode packages to the platform at the speed of your connection, resumes in the desktop app if anything drops, and records a checksum for every file so both sides know what arrived.

Boita review player on a delivery page: a video paused at 00:00:02:12 with a red rectangle drawn on the frame, note markers on the scrubber, frame stepping and J/K/L shuttle controls, and an approval panel listing each file as Approved or Changes requested.
Review: timecoded notes, drawings on the frame, and per-file approval.

Deadlines do not care about distance

A broadcaster in one city, a post house in another and a platform ingest point on a third continent: the same package has to arrive at all of them, intact, before a cut-off. Ordinary TCP uploads slow down with distance and stumble at every lost packet, so the last few percent of a large master can take longer than the first ninety.

Boita’s accelerated transfer engine uses UDP with its own rate control. It fills your connection and holds that rate over any distance, and it runs large packages as parallel sessions so one delivery can use everything your plan allows.

Proof of delivery, not a hope

Every file carries the checksum the server recorded when it arrived. The sender dashboard shows views and downloads per file and per recipient, so you know a delivery landed and who collected it. Delivery receipts list files, sizes, checksums, timestamp and who downloaded, with a CSV verification report, and as a PDF on Scale and above.

Every share link has an expiry, and you can add a password and a download limit. Download tokens are minted per download and expire in minutes, so revoking a link stops new and resumed transfers immediately. Recipient verification by one-time email code names who downloaded, and a deadline priority lane makes other transfers give way to the one that is due.

A 400 GB mezzanine package on Pro, over a 1 Gbps line, is on the server in about two hours when it arrives as a set of files the plan’s ten sessions can carry at once; wrapped as one file it moves in a single session at 45 Mbps and takes far longer; a 1 TB episode drop on Scale over the same line takes about two and a quarter hours, line-limited. The calculator on the home page models your own line and distance.

Standing deliveries without scripts

A watch folder in the desktop app turns a delivery folder into a standing instruction: whatever lands here goes there. It survives restarts, only sends files once they have stopped changing, and never re-sends what is already on the server. For platforms that receive from many suppliers, an upload portal gives each supplier a request link that drops their package into its own inbox folder with an email to both sides, and delivery specs flag off-spec files on arrival.

Enterprise workspaces auto-deliver anything landing in a folder to their own transfer server or S3-compatible bucket, and any workspace on Pro and above drives Boita from a pipeline through scoped API keys and signed webhooks.

Security that a compliance team can read

Transfer sessions are encrypted end to end by the engine, web and share pages are HTTPS only, and each workspace has its own storage root and encryption key. Two-factor authentication and a per-workspace audit log of logins, shares, downloads and admin actions are on every plan. Single sign-on, SCIM, audit export to a SIEM and malware scanning on arrival are on Enterprise; workspace policies cap link expiry and require passwords today, with enforced MFA and allowed recipient domains coming.

  • Line-rate transfers over distance, parallel sessions per plan
  • Checksums on every file; receipts with a verification report, PDF on Scale and above
  • Expiry, password, download limits, recipient verification and instant revocation
  • Watch folders and upload portals for standing supplier deliveries
  • Audit log, two-factor authentication; SSO on Enterprise

Questions people ask

Boita for broadcast and OTT delivery, in answers.

Written the way people ask an assistant, and published the same way in products.json and llms.txt. More in the full FAQ.

How do we hit a delivery window for an episode package?

Send it on the Deadline lane from the desktop app; it holds line rate over distance, resumes after drops, and the receipt records the checksum and time of arrival.

Can a platform that only accepts SFTP receive from us?

Auto-delivery to your own server is on Enterprise; inbound, Boita is itself an SFTP endpoint.

Can pre-release masters be watermarked?

Yes; visible watermarks on Scale and above and an invisible per-recipient mark on Enterprise.

Can we prove a package was delivered on time?

Yes. The delivery receipt records who downloaded which file and when, with per-file checksums and a CSV verification report; on Scale and above it exports as a PDF for the platform.

Does a large MXF or IMF package have a size limit?

Links are not capped by file size; your storage quota is the limit. Scale includes 10 TB and Enterprise is custom.

Our network blocks UDP. Does Boita still work?

Yes. Boita falls back to an HTTPS path automatically. It is slower but still encrypted, and the app tells you which path you are on so IT knows what to open.

Can suppliers deliver to us without an account?

Yes. Send each supplier an upload portal link. Their upload lands in its own inbox folder in your workspace and both sides get a completion email. From a browser an interrupted upload starts again; the free desktop app resumes.

Next step

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