Case Study: BBC Sport achieves fast, unified access to its full 5PB production archive with Quantum Corporation's StorNext 5

BBC Sport - Customer Case Study

BBC Sport, with a content archive spanning more than 75 years, needed a production-grade digital library that put historical and recent footage instantly at the fingertips of journalists and producers for live and near-live broadcasting. The challenge was to replace a mix of systems with a single, high-performance environment that supports heavy transcoding, fast access to proxies and originals, and routine editorial use rather than a slow, passive archive.

Trams and Media Manor delivered a StorNext 5–powered, four-tier storage architecture (online high-performance and staging disk tiers, an LTO tape archive, and off‑site vaulting) providing over 5PB usable capacity, 6.4GB/s system bandwidth, automated policy-based LTO migration, EDLM self-healing and dual-copy resilience, and easy scalability to 10+PB. Deployed in January 2015, the solution unified administration, guaranteed performance, eliminated support touchpoints, and gave BBC Sport fast, reliable access to its full production archive for everyday use.

BBC Sport

Declan Wood

Managing Director