Case Study: OceanX (ocean exploration nonprofit) achieves fast, reliable global media delivery with Signiant Media Shuttle

OceanX Dives into Efficient Media Workflows with Signiant

OceanX is a New York‑based nonprofit that explores the ocean and turns rare deep‑sea science into storytelling, operating missions from the R/V OceanXplorer and maintaining an evergreen media library of over 2 petabytes stored in New York. Managing, archiving, and sharing that footage worldwide was a major challenge: large file sizes and unreliable web transfers caused timed‑out or failed uploads (the team recalls a 2.5 terabyte transfer that would cancel on brief outages), emergency requests for 3 terabytes that would have required a hard drive and a six‑day delay, and even an 11‑drive, 100‑terabyte shipment (valued at $11,000) that cost $2,000 to send and sat in customs for a month, as Carly Tarricone, OceanX’s Video Editor & Technical Supervisor, recounts.

After trialing a partner’s Signiant Media Shuttle account, OceanX deployed its own Media Shuttle built on the Signiant Platform. Using Signiant’s acceleration technology and Checkpoint Restart, the team now moves large files fast and reliably, automatically resuming interrupted transfers and avoiding corrupted files or costly hard‑drive shipments. The result: faster, dependable deliveries to global partners and researchers, centralized control and visibility across their partner network, simpler pricing, and the “less mental effort and energy” Carly Tarricone says comes from not worrying about failed transfers.

OceanX

Carly Tarricone

Video Editor & Technical Supervisor