As cloud production becomes an integral part of broadcasters’ live workflows, the corresponding cloud infrastructure becomes an integral part of the media transport network. Cloud infrastructure providers, often public in nature, are accessible either through the public internet or through leased lines. Regardless of public or private, experience shows that these connections are not up to the quality standards required for low latency live streaming media, making quality-enhancing technologies, such as retransmission or Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ), an imperative part of the network infrastructure to deliver on the requirements for broadcast quality transmission. Two solutions have emerged as front runners on the quest for the next de facto standard for broadcast retransmission—Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) and Secure Reliable Transport (SRT). This report compares these two alternatives from a theoretical and performance perspective and compares them with a commercial reference alternative .