An Australian subscription TV company operates as a private entity, offering a wide array of content sourced from premier television, movie, and interactive application providers. Collaborating with Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the company facilitates the downloading and purchasing of box sets, providing access to top-tier entertainment content. Additionally, the company manages substantial data storage responsibilities through its content delivery services. With a decade-long partnership, the organization has consistently engaged us as a solution provider. This longstanding relationship has enabled us to seamlessly integrate and update numerous dependable, high-quality systems for the company over the years.

With the expansion in demand for their subscription-based services, the company required infrastructure that could cope with the scale of new clients and more demanding data workloads.
With previous consideration of other solution competitors, rack space, operational costs, and maintenance were the main deterrent factors that the company faced. Furthermore, they required flexibility and scalability with no lock-in technology for future plans of refreshment.

As the initial proposal of other providers required more racks, more operational costs, and more individual systems needing to be maintained, we recommended integrating a microcloud for substantial storage density for content delivery.

The main beneficial features of this solution are the ease of maintenance with reduced costs, multiple configurations, more performance-based features, and added flexibility. As such, we optimised a solution to match the refreshment requirements the company had while also satisfying the key deterrent factors faced by other competitors.

The proposed solution provided many improvements in footprint and performance, while simultaneously satisfying their cost, rack space, and maintenance driving factors. Overall, integrating a highly scalable and flexible solution within Australia.

To meet Fetch TV’s specific requirements, we proposed a solution based on the Supermicro model 5039MP-H8TNR as a MicroCloud server.