Media Delivery DMZ

With BEUL to a streaming infrastructure with high reliability

A medium-sized media company needed support in designing and building a streaming infrastructure that would prepare and process TV satellite data and make it available securely via the Internet. The aim was to provide a European special interest channel in Germany.

For this purpose, the existing server and encoder systems should be connected to a newly created internet edge. A two-stage DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) was implemented using Cisco Integrated Services Routers and Palo Alto Firewalls, which allows granular control of access and communication. The reliability was addressed by redundant gateways, failover mechanisms and ISP dual homing.

All systems have been intensively hardened and protected against security incidents. A QoS (Quality of Service) set of rules was also defined to ensure the quality of the real-time data transmitted from the streaming network.

BEUL accompanied the customer in developing the new business area of digital services and supported him in the planning, implementation and test of the solution. We developed an operations manual for professional support and maintenance of the environment including patch and software management.