Profile

Flowers TV is a 24-hour Malayalam general entertainment television channel from Insight Media City, an international media campus headquartered at Kochi, Kerala, India. The channel has been on the air since 12 April 2015 and holds the broadcast rights to the North American Film Awards. Apprehending the taste of the real television viewers in Kerala, Flowers TV has catered a visual feast on screen. With a fresh look and feel and a wide variety of programs, Flowers TV has grabbed the minds of the Malayali audience across the globe with the launch of a second channel, Flowers International, in a 10 month period.

Challenge

Flowers TV was looking for an accelerated file transfer solution to deploy at their new playout facility, Horizon Teleports, located in Moosburg Germany. Initially, Flowers TV used traditional FTP-based software and performed manual file transfers. Transferring substantial HD files from Kerala to Germany took a very long time to complete when using conventional TCP/IP methods, and as the RTT increased the bandwidth reduced to such an extent that the files wouldn’t reach the destination successfully. They needed a solution that was advanced, simple, reliable, secure and provided constant output (even when latency is present). Flowers TV also required automation and scheduling features included with their new solution. In addition to these features, they were looking into the ability to transfer live content and growing files to their counterparts.