Firstlight Media is building on a long history of OTT platform innovation for streaming providers around the world, including AT&T, Rogers Sports & Media (including Sportsnet), newcomer Struum, and others. OTT refers to going “over the top” of the cable box to provide streaming, like Netflix and Roku. Firstlight Media’s mission is to help the company’s customers—multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), telcos, and entertainment and sports providers—deliver best-in-class content via live and video on-demand (VOD) streaming.
As companies across all industries began to digitally transform, Firstlight Media saw an opportunity to innovate for customers while orchestrating a move from on-premises to a public cloud. Using key Microsoft Azure components, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to host microservices, Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files to manage data storage, and Azure Load Balancer and Azure Application Gateway to manage network traffic, Firstlight Media led development of a cloud-native OTT architecture—Gen5—that enables uninterrupted quality streaming.
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