Case Study: Avid achieves high-quality, low-bandwidth global video streaming with Riverbed (and Qumu)

Avid - Customer Case Study

Avid, a leading provider of digital audio and video tools used across film, television and music industries, needed a better way to communicate with its global workforce. Existing methods—shipping recorded video or streaming single feeds to each office—were slow, costly and caused latency, jitter and heavy WAN bandwidth use, preventing timely, high-quality live and on-demand access.

Avid solved this by deploying Qumu’s webcasting and VideoEdge software on upgraded Riverbed Steelhead appliances with RSP virtualization, creating edge media servers that split streams locally and pre-stage content. The integrated solution cut WAN video traffic dramatically (up to 98%), eliminated the need for distributed streaming servers, reduced costs, and delivered higher-quality, on-demand and live video access that improved employee satisfaction.

Avid

Pat Delaney

Client Services Lead