Case Study: US Consumer Video Service Provider achieves scalable, secure, low-latency cloud DVR with Equinix

Leading over-the-top (OTT) provider launches high-performance cloud DVR

A U.S.-based over‑the‑top (OTT) video provider serving more than 2.2 million subscribers needed a secure, low‑latency, highly interconnected platform to launch a cloud DVR service that records, stores and plays back unique copies of content per user. The operator faced challenges around strict content security and authentication, massive per‑subscriber storage requirements (hundreds of petabytes at scale), and the need for dense network and cloud interconnection to deliver a consistent, high‑performance viewing experience.

The company deployed Platform Equinix capabilities — including Equinix Performance Hub, ECX Fabric, Data Hub and an Interconnection Oriented Architecture anchored in Equinix Ashburn — to bring compute and storage to the digital edge and directly peer with networks and cloud providers. The result was scalable, secure low‑latency delivery with reduced costs via IP peering, multi‑ISP redundancy to reach millions of endpoints, contiguous secure storage for recommendations and QoS, and a foundation for future growth.