Case Study
HBO - Bringing the best of Hollywood to Asia, with the help of IHSE
CASE STUDY The Customer HBO Asia is a division of Time Warner and operates from Singapore, transmitting a bouquet of channels and services to viewers throughout Asia. The broadcaster brings the best of Hollywood to Asia through licensing deals with major and independent studios. With several live and on-demand broadcast channels, the organisation operates on a 24-hour per day basis. The Challenge In order to continuously monitor transmissions a system was required that would allow around 20 personnel to access over 100 servers housed in the central equipment room at the broadcaster’s headquarter offices. The Solution To achieve the desired connectivity and flexibility that would allow monitoring staff to access individual channels and switch easily between them, a 160 port Drac