Capella Systems News at NAB 2026

Cambria Stream Solo: A Flexible On-Prem Live Encoder

One of the biggest additions to the Cambria family is Cambria Stream Solo, a new on-premise live encoding solution designed for professional streaming workflows.

‍Stream Solo is built on the same encoding technology as Cambria FTC and Cambria Stream Pro, but packaged as a lightweight and flexible live encoder that can run across a wide range of hardware platforms.

‍For broadcasters, production companies, and live event operators, this provides a simple way to deploy reliable live encoding without committing to proprietary appliances or rigid hardware configurations.

‍Stream Solo can operate either as a full stream origin, generating all required profile variants for delivery, or as a high-quality contribution encoder feeding downstream Cambria Stream engines in the cloud.

‍The system supports a wide range of professional inputs, including SRT, UDP, RTMP, Zixi, SDI, HLS-TS, NDI, and media files, and can generate outputs for modern streaming workflows including CMAF, HLS, SRT, RTP, MP4/TS, RTMP/RTMPS, and Zixi — with SCTE-35 support throughout.

‍The product scales with you. Stream Solo supports one live channel. Stream Duo handles two. Stream Quad handles four. Same product, same engine, the same operational simplicity regardless of channel count.

Dynamic Swap: Maintaining Live Channels During Maintenance

Another major enhancement arriving this year is a new capability within Cambria Stream Pro called Dynamic Swap.

‍Anyone running live channels understands the operational challenge of maintenance. Software updates, hardware changes, and system restarts all carry the same risk: interrupting live services.

‍Dynamic Swap addresses this by running additional encoder capacity in the background. Channels can be seamlessly switched between primary and standby encoders without interrupting the live stream.

‍This allows operators to perform tasks such as software updates, machine restarts, or infrastructure maintenance while channels remain on air. It also provides an additional layer of resilience. If a machine fails, the system can dynamically switch to the standby encoder without disrupting the stream.

Native SMPTE ST 2110 Support

Cambria Stream Solo and Cambria Stream Pro are adding ST 2110 support, allowing them to integrate directly into IP-based broadcast facilities. This means Cambria encoding engines can sit naturally within ST 2110 production environments, working alongside modern IP routing, switching, and processing systems.

Cambria Live Clip

Another new capability combines Cambria Stream and Cambria FTC to enable automated clipping from live streams.‍

Streams are continuously recorded by Cambria Stream while they are being encoded. When a clip request is triggered via API, the system extracts the relevant segment and sends it directly to Cambria FTC for processing and delivery.

The clipped segment can then be packaged into formats such as HLS or MP4 and delivered to cloud storage, distribution platforms, or publishing systems automatically, no manual intervention required.

Because the system records both primary and backup streams, it can automatically fall back to the backup recording if the main recording fails.

The result is a workflow that connects live streaming infrastructure directly with file-based production and distribution.

Open Workflow Automation with n8n

Perhaps the most significant step forward is the integration of Cambria FTC and Cambria Cluster with n8n, a visual workflow automation platform. (https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n)

‍‍With over 177,000 GitHub stars and deployments at organisations including Microsoft, Vodafone, and Meta, n8n is one of the most widely adopted workflow automation platforms in the world. Visual, drag-and-drop workflow building. Over 500 native integrations. Code available when you need it. AI and LLM support built in. All of it self- hostable, enterprise-ready, and evolving at the pace of a global developer community rather than a single vendor's roadmap.

‍By integrating Cambria FTC and Cambria Cluster with n8n, encoding and processing tasks become part of that broader automation fabric — connected to any system in your stack, orchestrated visually, without custom engineering every time something changes.

What This Means for Cambria Workflows

While Cambria FTC has built-in scripting, this is designed for intra-job logic, n8n provides inter-system automation on top of that. With n8n acting as the orchestration layer, Cambria FTC jobs can be triggered, controlled, and managed as part of broader workflows that may include storage systems, content management platforms, AI services, cloud infrastructure, and operational tools.

‍For example,

Automated Multi-Platform Publishing

A single asset can be automatically prepared for multiple destinations the moment it arrives.

‍Example workflow:

1. ‍Asset arrives in S3, Azure Blob, Oracle Cloud, or on-prem storage.
2. n8n reads metadata (title, language, territory, rights window).
3. Rules determine which deliverables are required.
4. Cambria FTC generates required encodes (OTT, mobile, mezzanine, archive).
5. n8n distributes outputs to: CDN origin, YouTube, social media platforms, partner delivery endpoints
6. Notifications are sent to editorial and distribution teams via Slack, email etc.
7. CMS updates automatically

‍Instead of manually managing delivery packages, the system publishes content everywhere automatically.

‍In this model, Cambria FTC is no longer just a standalone transcoder. It becomes a high-performance processing node within a fully automated workflow ecosystem.

For more information visit Capella Booth (West Hall, Booth W3312) at NAB 2026.