A marriage in low-latency royalty sees Red5 Pro onboard Zixi’s revered software-defined video platform (SDVP) for sub .5-second streaming latency. But with Red5 Pro specializing in streaming based on the WebRTC (real-time communications) protocol, and Zixi considered a rival-of-sorts as a protocol in its own right, there are some creases in this deal that need ironing out. Both Zixi and WebRTC are based on UDP (User Datagram Protocol). Both are relatively modern streaming protocols. Both use Forward Error Correction (FEC). But that is about where the similarities end. WebRTC is a free and open source protocol to use, while Zixi is a walled garden protocol requiring a paid license. Despite the proprietary nature of Zixi, the protocol has proven immensely…