Red Bee Media is using Synamedia’s Quortex just-in-time technology for disaster recovery for live streaming services.
Quortex’s cloud-native solution provisions back-up resources only when required, which the company says will help Red Bee reduce energy use and meet its sustainability goals.
Red Bee has been a Quortex customer since 2018, using its just-in-time architecture to support hundreds of OTT services each month for video, live events and radio, said Synamedia.
It also deploys it to build streams on-the-fly, based on viewers’ locations, devices and time zones. The technology adapts to unpredictable infrastructure and audience demands by automatically scaling resources up and down, while taking advantage of spot instances that use spare cloud capacity at a lower than typical cost, yet maintaining the quality of experience for viewers.
Olivier Braun, product manager of streaming services at Red Bee, said, “It was easy to extend and configure Quortex as a key component of our disaster recovery for streaming services. Setting up each channel only takes a couple of minutes, and Quortex’s just-in-time processing model meets our needs for a cost-effective, yet immediately available, disaster recovery environment.”
Marc Baillavoine, senior director of product management at Synamedia, added: Using DevOps tools, we easily integrated with Red Bee’s managed OTT back end, making it possible to automatically deploy and configure tens of live streams in minutes on any cloud provider anywhere. Now, we are extending our partnership with disaster recovery that springs to life only when needed, helping Red Bee build robust streaming environments whilst making substantial cost and energy savings.”
