NetActuate Expands VPU-as-a-Service to 15 Global Locations with NETINT VPU Acceleration

NetActuate makes NETINT Quadra VPU acceleration available as a service on a global anycast network as an industry alternative to hardware procurement and hyperscaler clouds.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Sept. 9, 2026 NetActuate, a leading provider of global infrastructure and network services in more than 45 locations worldwide, today announced that NETINT Quadra Video Processing Units (VPUs) are now live in 15 of its global points of presence, with additional locations available for custom deployments. The expansion builds on the companies' February partnership announcement and will be on display at NETINT's booth, 1.D49, throughout IBC 2026.

NetActuate’s VPU-as-a-Service offering provides the infrastructure needed to give engineering teams direct, self-service access to purpose-built video-processing silicon without the need to secure any servers or VPU cards themselves. Customers attach a NETINT VPU directly to a virtual machine, or managed Kubernetes node in NetActuate’s network through a secure passthrough, with full pipeline control, tooling, metrics, and observability. Integrations with bare metal servers are also available. 

Where a hyperscaler's black-box transcoding service means submitting jobs into someone else's pipeline and accepting its pricing and turnaround, NetActuate's model puts the VPU directly in the customer's own VM or Kubernetes node, deployable in seconds rather than days or weeks. The VPU works with the encoding software teams already run, open source or commercial, so nobody has to give up a pipeline to get the economics of dedicated silicon. Teams attach a VPU and keep the workflow they trust, at a fraction of general-purpose cloud compute cost, with no lock-in to a single provider's proprietary transcoding API. NETINT's own Bitstreams software and Bitstreams Manager run on the VPU for teams that want a complete platform from one vendor.

"Streaming teams want the performance of dedicated video silicon without losing control of their own workflow," said Randal Horne, Chief Revenue Officer at NETINT Technologies. "NetActuate's expansion to 15 locations, combined with self-service deployment and now the Marketplace, gives teams a fast, low-risk way to prove out VPU-based encoding on real infrastructure before committing to scale."

"NETINT built the VPU category, and this is what deploying on it should feel like: you pick your compute, you attach the accelerator, and you're running your own pipeline in seconds instead of negotiating with a black box," said Mark Mahle, CEO of NetActuate. "Pairing that with the Marketplace means a customer can build a complete stack with encoding, streaming, delivery from software they already trust, running in markets of their choice.”

Media Marketplace

The NETINT partnership also now extends to the NetActuate Media Marketplace, which runs on the same global network as VPU acceleration. Customers can pair NETINT's own Bitstreams encoding software with a partner appliance to assemble a full video processing stack from ingest to delivery, without a proprietary hyperscaler service getting in the way.

Now Available

VPUaaS is available now as a turnkey offering on NetActuate's platform: a VPU-enabled virtual machine or Kubernetes node deploys in seconds from the NetActuate portal or API, with pre-installed capacity live today in 15 locations and custom hardware builds available in other markets on request.

NetActuate is available to discuss deployment options for any workload size and will set up a no-charge evaluation deployment for qualified prospects evaluating VPU-based encoding. Talk to the team at IBC to scope a deployment, or visit NETINT at booth 1.D49 during IBC 2026, September 11 to 14 in Amsterdam, to see the integration live.

About NetActuate

NetActuate delivers edge infrastructure and network solutions in more than 45 locations worldwide, enabling customers to deploy workloads with low latency, resiliency, and security. The Open Network Edge (ONE) IaaS platform supports VMs, Kubernetes, cloud, colocation, bare metal, and storage infrastructure with Anycast connectivity. NetActuate provides 24x7 support, expert consulting, and flexible solutions engineered for scalability and performance. For more information, visit netactuate.com.

About NETINT

NETINT Technologies is the 2024 Tech Emmy Award winner for "Design & Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud" and the founder of the VPU category. With more than 225,000 VPUs deployed, encoding over 1.1 trillion minutes of video, the world's largest streaming services rely on NETINT to cut energy and OPEX by up to 20x. Learn more at netint.com.

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