Autonomous Experience Continuity
Legacy streaming reacts after the network fails. AXC prepares before it does. Run two live stress tests side by side: a full network outage and a bandwidth collapse.
The buffering wheel is a loss-of-signal problem
Every streaming service meets the same moment: the connection drops, the buffer empties, and a spinning wheel replaces the picture. Viewers leave, and the advertising around that moment goes unseen.
The problem
Conventional players react after the network fails. They hold a few seconds of buffer, freeze when it runs out, retry, then rebuild their session. Adaptive bitrate can lower quality, but it cannot keep playing without a connection.
What AXC does
AXC (Autonomous Experience Continuity) treats a network interruption as an expected event. It keeps a continuity reserve of upcoming content close to the viewer, switches to it with a low-latency handoff (sub-100 ms target), and re-syncs the session quietly when the link returns.
1. Anticipate
Upcoming segments are positioned ahead of time, based on how much of the stream the connection can sustain.
2. Hand off
When throughput drops, playback continues from the local reserve. The viewer sees no wheel.
3. Resume
When connectivity returns, the session re-synchronizes and the reserve refills in the background.
Patent pending The live demo below runs two stress tests side by side. Related: Agentic CPL, our Cryptographic Trust Layer.
Zero-Gap Handoff
Cut the connection. A legacy player plays out its small buffer, then freezes and retries with back-off. AXC keeps playing from its pre-positioned continuity reserve and re-syncs silently when the link returns.
AXC ACTIVEAdjust the model
Timeline — last 60 seconds
Event log
4K Tier Protection
Throttle the bandwidth. A legacy adaptive-bitrate player estimates throughput, waits, then steps down the quality ladder and climbs back slowly. AXC draws on pre-fetched 4K segments and holds the tier while the reserve lasts.
AXC ACTIVEBandwidth vs. delivered bitrate — last 60 seconds
Event log
What this demo models
Both tests run a live simulation of how players behave. They don’t just toggle a spinner.
Legacy player
- Small playback buffer (default 4 s) that drains during an outage
- Freezes only when the buffer is empty, then retries with exponential back-off
- Needs a reconnect delay plus a 2–3 s re-buffer before resuming
- ABR: smoothed throughput estimate, quality drops after a ~2 s detection delay, climbs back one rung at a time
AXC Protocol
- Continuity reserve of pre-positioned segments that refills faster than real time while the link is healthy
- Hands off to the reserve the instant throughput drops, with no player-side detection lag
- Holds the 4K tier until the reserve runs low, then steps down to the best sustainable rung
- The reserve is finite, and the demo shows it running out
What is simulated
- No real network traffic is throttled. Throughput, buffers and quality tiers are computed in your browser
- The sample clip is a Full HD excerpt. Quality tiers are rendered by downscaling it, and the “4K” label marks the top tier of the simulated ladder
- Reserve and buffer sizes are adjustable assumptions, not field measurements
Sample video: “Big Buck Bunny” © Blender Foundation (www.bigbuckbunny.org), licensed CC BY 3.0. Excerpt re-encoded for web playback. If it can’t be loaded, the demo falls back to a shorter low-resolution clip.
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