Use Cases

VPU Infrastructure (IaaS)

Customer: Akamai

Quadra VPUs deliver high-density, cost-efficient video encoding in the cloud, enabling customers to scale without owning hardware.

Ideal for: all streaming scenarios

  • Subscription-based access to VPU-powered encoding with no infrastructure investment.
  • Proven high-density transcoding at low power consumption for general-purpose cloud users.
  • Virtualization via PCIe VF/PF ensures secure separation of management and transcoding workloads.

Dense Decoding

(Security/Surveillance)

Quadra VPUs enable video surveillance platforms to decode hundreds of simultaneous camera feeds, deliver lower bitrates, and power AI-driven analytics—all on a single server.

Ideal for: security platforms, command centers

  • Bulk decode up to 48× 1080p30 per VPU and 480× streams per 1RU server.
  • Up to 80% lower storage requirements through reduced output bitrates.
  • On-chip AI for facial recognition, object detection, and classification, without replacing legacy cameras.

Edge Encoding

Quadra’s M.2 VPU enables ultra-low-latency edge encoding for dynamic ad insertion and cloud gaming, delivering high-quality results with minimal footprint.

Ideal for: edge CDNs, cloud gaming networks

  • Quadra’s M.2 VPU enables low-latency edge encoding with direct P2P YUV/RGBA pull, minimizing delay in ad stitching and rendering.
  • Cooperative development delivered a compact T1M form factor, enabling dense multi-node edge deployment for regionalized ad insertion and cloud-gaming responsiveness.

Multilayer AV1 Encoding

Quadra VPUs support multi-layer AV1 encoding for dynamic overlays, creative ad formats, and real-time effects at high frame rates.

Ideal for: ad-tech platforms, creative effects

  • Supports up to 4 AV1 layers (BL, EL1–EL3) for dynamic ad overlays and multi-element compositions.
  • Delivers real-time 1080p60 multilayer AV1 encoding with customizable reference structures for advanced visual effects.

AI Acceleration in Transcoding

Quadra VPUs accelerate AI inference during live transcoding by identifying regions of interest and offloading intensive analysis from the GPU.

Ideal for: surveillance AI, sports analysis

  • Detects key visual regions on-chip and forwards coordinates to advanced GPU AI models.
  • Reduces GPU compute load by focusing inference only where needed.
  • Enhances real-time analysis for surveillance, sports, and live monitoring.

Capped CRF Encoding for CDN

Quadra VPUs optimize capped-CRF encoding to deliver consistent, high-density, bandwidth-efficient live streams across CDN workflows.

Ideal for: live CDNs, OTT streaming

  • High-density encoding with controlled max bitrate for predictable CDN costs.
  • Optimized 2D downscaling for ABR ladders.
  • Compatible even with older servers and Linux OS distributions.

Live Contribution Encoding

Quadra VPUs deliver high-quality, low-latency contribution encoding including mezzanine and ABR ladder generation.

Ideal for: Broadcast, live production workflows

  • Generate mezzanine streams (e.g., 4K60 HDR HEVC) and full ABR ladders simultaneously.
  • Lower latency and better QC than cloud-based ladder generation.
  • Affordable high-density encoding for SDI and broadcast inputs.

Multiview Encoding

Quadra VPUs power multiview streaming by stitching multiple independent bitstreams into user-defined layouts without double-encoding.

Ideal for: sports betting, fantasy leagues

  • Stitch 4+ independent feeds into a single tile-based bitstream.
  • MCTS encoding prevents motion artifacts across tile boundaries.
  • Encode each feed once—up to 2

CAPEX Reduction of $8.6M

Customer: Mayflower

Mayflower cut $8.6M in annual OPEX by replacing CPU encoders with Quadra VPUs across their high-volume user-generated content (UGC) streaming CDN.

Ideal for: UGC CDNs, large, streaming platforms

  • Saved $8.6M annually (80% OPEX cut) by replacing CPU encoders with Quadra VPUs.
  • Reduced compute cost from $10M → $1.4M (CPU/GPU vs VPU infrastructure).

Cost Reduction Deployment

Customer: api.video

api.video slashed encoding costs by 99.3% using Quadra VPUs, enabling them to offer free encoding as a market-defining differentiator.

Ideal for: API-driven video platforms, SaaS encoding services

  • Cut encoding cost to $0.0002/minute enabling a “free encoding” offering which grew huge customer loyalty
  • Maintained high-quality H.264/HEVC comparable to FFmpeg.

Upgrade legacy surveillance systems to 4K, without replacing existing cameras

Quadra VPUs deliver high-density, cost-efficient video encoding in the cloud, enabling customers to scale without owning hardware.

Ideal for: all streaming scenarios

  • Subscription-based access to VPU-powered encoding with no infrastructure investment.
  • Proven high-density transcoding at low power consumption for general-purpose cloud users.
  • Virtualization via PCIe VF/PF ensures secure separation of management and transcoding workloads.

Reduce Surveillance Archives up to 80%

Store high-quality surveillance video without the storage penalty. Quadra VPUs apply AI-driven video compression post-capture, dramatically reducing bitrates while maintaining target visual quality, breaking the traditional link between archive size and storage cost. Reduces long-term storage footprint.

Ideal for: Municipal, industrial or enterprise surveillance spaces with large archives and long retention requirements.


  • Shrink archive storage to ~20% of original size
  • Lower nDVR CAPEX and OPEX without sacrificing usable footage

50% Hardware Reduction

Customer: Zapping

Quadra VPUs deliver high-density, cost-efficient video encoding in the cloud, enabling customers to scale without owning hardware.

Ideal for: all streaming scenarios

  • Subscription-based access to VPU-powered encoding with no infrastructure investment.
  • Proven high-density transcoding at low power consumption for general-purpose cloud users.
  • Virtualization via PCIe VF/PF ensures secure separation of management and transcoding workloads.

Not customer approved...yet

Customer: JW Player

Migrating from CPU cloud giant to VPU core infrastructure. For 24×7 video services, they’re hitting a ~10x monthly OPEX saving over previous provider, per channel.

Ideal for: 24×7, Live and On-demand video distrubution, Advertisers

  • Achieved ~10x Monthly OPEX saving PER 24×7 CHANNEL!  
  • Huge reduction in Channel initialization and Video Startup tim