Case Study: Sohonet achieves real-time collaboration on massive media files with CoreSite's connectivity-rich hybrid IT

Enabling Real-Time Collaboration on Large Digital Files for Media and Entertainment Industry

Sohonet, a London-based provider of collaboration tools for film, TV and advertising, helps storytellers move extremely large media files between a few key locations. Its customers need intense, short-term scalability for compute, storage and bandwidth, plus low-latency, highly reliable and secure connections to meet tight deadlines and protect costly digital assets—while being able to scale capacity down after a project to control costs.

To solve this, Sohonet colocates steady-state equipment at CoreSite’s downtown Los Angeles (LA1) facility and uses CoreSite’s interconnection and direct cloud onramps (330+ networks, Any2Exchange®, Open Cloud Exchange®) for elastic, burstable capacity. The hybrid setup delivers low-latency, high-speed transfers, stronger security and predictable costs, enabling real-time remote collaboration, faster deliveries, and an expanded customer ecosystem for large media productions.

Sohonet

Patrick Sumby

Vice President