VPN network doubles Eurosport network capacity
VPN network doubles Eurosport network capacity
International sports broadcaster Eurosport has doubled its network capacity by enhancing its VPN network.
The broadcaster has seen a rising level of demand for its multi-media streaming services, which has largely been generated by its business applications. As a result, it required a high capacity network that will both cater to the current demand and allow for increasing pressure on content delivery in the future.
Interoute helped provide the solution, which will see Eurosport connect 12 major European cities through its MPLS VPN network, including areas in England, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Switzerland. A number of smaller sites in Europe and Asia, such as Tokyo, Helsinki and Lisbon, are also due to be connected to the Eurosport network through an IPsec VPN.
Pascal Delorme, systems and networks manager at the broadcaster, remarked: “We were faced with the challenge of how to improve our network performance and our costs."
He added that they would work together with the service provider to improve its public and private networks with the aim of achieving this goal and increasing the number of MPLS VPN sites in operation.
"We also have an IPsec solution implemented on secondary sites, which we can manage locally, allowing us to integrate new sites at lower costs," he added.
His colleague Nicolas Perrault, a network and security engineer, went on to say that the amount of traffic crossing Eurosport's VPN rose from four to 20Mbps in Scandinavia alone between February and October last year.
The implementation of the MPLS solution will provide a much higher quality service than the current IPsec solution, while also doubling network capacity and delivering a number of improvements as far as cost saving is concerned.
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