For the past 15 years, Media Excel has powered the most high-profile video encoding and transcoding deployments worldwide for Fortune 500 operators; from mission-critical US Department of Defense operations to Verizon's Super Bowl and from LGU+ Google TV to AT&T U-verse's 300-channel 24x7 services. While most legacy architectures struggle to provide 3 nines of uptime (10 minutes downtime per week), Media Excel's architecture's highly-available characteristics have proven delivery of 5 nines of uptime in an N+1 configuration (5 minutes downtime per year), and 7 nines of uptime in an 1+1 configuration (3 seconds downtime per year).