Every frame. Every fault. Explained.

When a stream degrades or drops, you need to know exactly what the network delivered — not a sampled approximation. Wirelake gives IP broadcast engineers a permanent, queryable record of every packet at line rate.

You know something went wrong. You can't prove where.

Broadcast network teams face a fundamental diagnostic gap. Monitoring tools tell you when a stream has degraded. They don't tell you why — not precisely, not at the packet level, not in a form you can hand to a vendor or a regulator. Sampling-based approaches miss the anomalies that matter. Proprietary capture formats require specialist tools to read. And when an incident happens, the data you need either doesn't exist or isn't queryable at scale. Wirelake solves this. It captures every packet at line rate, decodes it in real time, and writes structured Parquet data to local storage — permanently queryable with the tools your team already uses.

Use Cases

Built for broadcast network operations.

Stream integrity verification

Query exactly what packets were delivered on a given multicast group during a given window. Reconstruct sequence numbers, identify gaps, and prove delivery to SLA.

Fault investigation

When a viewer reports degradation at 14:37:22, you can query down to nanosecond resolution. No guesswork, no sampling artifacts — the packet record is the ground truth.

Capacity planning

Aggregate bandwidth, PPS, and multicast group distribution over days or weeks — all from the same Parquet data. No separate probes, no second system.

Vendor dispute resolution

When a network or CDN vendor disputes an incident, Wirelake data is the definitive record. Nanosecond timestamps, complete packet headers, structured and auditable.

What makes Wirelake right for broadcast.

  • → Zero-loss capture (AF_XDP at 100Gbps)
  • → Multicast-native (IGMP, multicast UDP, RTP)
  • → Nanosecond timestamps (sub-100ns, hardware clock synchronised)
  • → Hive-partitioned Parquet
  • → On-premises
  • → Open query layer (DuckDB, Spark, Grafana, Python)

See Wirelake on your broadcast infrastructure.

We work with broadcast network teams to run a proof of concept on your hardware, with your live traffic. Contact us to discuss your environment.

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