Case Study: Cinema Cloud achieves rapid, secure digital cinema distribution with Aspera Shares On Demand

High-Speed Digital Cinema Content Distribution With Aspera On Demand

Cinema Cloud, a Melbourne-based provider of cloud digital cinema distribution across the APAC region, needed a faster, more reliable way to move multi‑gigabyte film files from global suppliers to cinemas. Physical shipments required rotating pelican cases and replacement drives, causing delays, damage and high logistics costs, while standard TCP/HTTP transfers couldn’t utilize available bandwidth for acceptable performance.

Cinema Cloud deployed Aspera Shares On Demand (with Aspera Console and FASP Direct-to‑S3) on AWS to enable high‑speed, secure WAN transfers, fine‑grained access control and cloud‑scale capacity on a pay‑as‑you‑go basis. As a result, deliveries now take minutes or hours instead of days, 30GB transfers complete in a few hours across continents, storage and copy overheads are reduced, and detailed transfer reporting streamlines billing and auditing.

Cinema Cloud

Tony Laughton

CEO, Cinema Cloud