It is never good enough to have one broadcast instance, we all know things can and will go wrong. The show must always go on, media companies are used to having primary and backup streams to ensure the best user experience with NO downtime.
cloudSwXtch SMPTE 2022-7 Hitless Merge protects against data path failures by supporting two or more data paths. It compares packet reception from the multiple streams, detecting dropped packets, and reconstructs the output stream in the correct packet order.
