Case Study: StarTimes achieves scalable, high-availability digital TV services with Alibaba Cloud

StarTimes scales digital TV to 18 million DTT subscribers with Alibaba Cloud

StarTimes, a leading digital TV operator in Africa, faced challenges with a chaotic IT architecture that lacked elasticity and high availability, hindering their business. Their self-built, open-source data analytics environment was costly to maintain and suffered from fragmented data interconnection, creating significant operational hurdles. They partnered with Alibaba Cloud to address these issues.

Alibaba Cloud implemented a comprehensive solution, reconstructing StarTimes's cloud architecture to achieve business elasticity and high availability. The vendor utilized its container service (ACK) for a micro-service transformation and migrated data to products like PolarDB, RDS, and Elasticsearch PaaS. This provided StarTimes with a one-stop global media processing platform and a smoothly integrated data environment, enhancing resource utilization and operational efficiency.

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