Working for a large UK service provider, whose portfolio includes playout and media management services to a range of global broadcasters, the assignment was to work with the internal technical and operational teams to develop the detailed design and implementation approach for an ingest system refresh.

THE CHALLENGE

The customer process many 1000s of hours of content each and every month and their unattended and operator-led workflows need to function at maximum efficiency.

THE SOLUTION

Lunation were engaged to provide lead-design-authority on the project and took the project through from design, vendor selection, business-case justification and into implementation.

THE LUNATION TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES

Delivered project initiation and functional specifications

Created business cases and gating documentation

Designed operational workflows with gap analysis

Built custom Puppet modules and provisioning scripts

Provided systems architecture design

Vendor and tooling comparison and decision papers

Specified test and validation approaches

Drafted technical migration plans

[The Lunation team were] able to take complex requirements and turn them into clear deliverables. Their naturally collaborative approach ensured that colleagues in both engineering and operations were involved in the process, engendering a real sense of ownership. Added to a meticulous approach to documentation, they were a key enabler in the successful design and deployment.

Head of Media Services ProductsThe Customer
  • ENGAGEMENT PERIOD: 8 MONTHS
  • ENGAGEMENT TYPE: INTERMITTENT, ON-DEMAND CONSULTANCY