New Zealand pay television provider, Sky TV has deployed Citrix's NetScaler SD-WAN to manage unpredictable network connectivity and increased bandwidth demands during the Rio 2016 Olympics. This is to ensure production teams on the ground have access to critical applications, data and tools needed to report during the games.
With hundreds of thousands of tourists, athletes and media combined with local businesses and the wider community all using the same network, Sky TV required a contingency plan to maintain network performance and accuracy.
According to Citrix, the implementation of NetScaler SD-WAN is central to Sky TV’s Rio 2016 Olympics ICT strategy, requiring network resiliency to mitigate potential risks associated with the quality of local infrastructure and circuits. SD-WAN will enable the International Broadcast Centre team to cover the Olympics without interruption, providing seamless failover in the event of disruption on any of the network services.
Wheeler, Director of Technology, Sky
NetScaler SD-WAN was the most mature offering allowing us to achieve this. Having investigated the options available we found the SD-WAN solution from Citrix was easiest to deploy by overlaying our existing architecture without having to change the underlying network or modify our site layout in Rio.
Anandh Maistry, Senior Director, Citrix ANZ
We understand the Sky TV team will be under enormous pressure during the Olympics, which is why we will provide them with on-going support from our global customer support centre in Brazil.
