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header: Media Shield for Live
lang: en
last_updated: '2020-12-18'
url: https://docs.fastly.com/products/media-shield-for-live
---

Fastly Media Shield for Live offers customers the ability to decrease origin traffic by [reducing multiple CDN requests](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/concepts/edge-state/cache/request-collapsing/) of live video events or live linear channels into a single request back to your origin. Media Shield for Live works with your existing architecture by making Fastly the origin to all of your end-user-serving CDNs. This also allows you to take advantage of Fastly’s [Observability features](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/observability/about-observability/about-the-observability-pages) in a multi-CDN environment.

> **NOTE:** For more details about this product, including [pricing information](https://www.fastly.com/pricing) and help with purchasing it, contact your account manager or email [sales@fastly.com](mailto:sales@fastly.com).