Citrix SD-WAN provides SKY TV with a safe road to Rio

Citrix SD-WAN provides SKY TV with a safe road to Rio

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — 17 August 2016 — Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) today announced New Zealand pay television provider, Sky TV, has deployed NetScaler SD-WAN to manage unpredictable network connectivity and increased bandwidth demands during the Rio 2016 Olympics, ensuring production teams on the ground have access to critical applications, data and tools needed to report during the games.

With hundreds of thousands of tourists, athletes and media combined with local businesses and the wider community all using the same network, Sky TV required a contingency plan to maintain network performance and accuracy.

The implementation of NetScaler SD-WAN is central to Sky TV’s Rio 2016 Olympics ICT strategy, requiring network resiliency to mitigate potential risks associated with the quality of local infrastructure and circuits. SD-WAN will enable the International Broadcast Centre team to cover the Olympics without interruption, providing seamless failover in the event of disruption on any of the network services.

Maintaining high performance of workflow applications in the event of a network outage is critical to the television provider producing quality content for New Zealand audiences watching this year’s Olympics.

“We want to deliver on our promise for New Zealanders to get the very best in Olympics coverage, and to achieve this we need to make sure our Rio production team have secure and reliable access to the tools needed for the job. NetScaler SD-WAN was the most mature offering allowing us to achieve this,” said Mr Wheeler, director of technology at Sky. “Having investigated the options available we found the SD-WAN solution from Citrix was easiest to deploy by overlaying our existing architecture without having to change the underlying network or modify our site layout in Rio.”

“The Rio 2016 Olympics is a key milestone with little room for error, and for the past few months we’ve trialled our systems and processes in a simulated environment to address any issues. When testing NetScaler SD-WAN we were thrilled it delivered exactly what it promised. We’re already looking beyond the games to see how SD-WAN can support big sporting events in the future,” Mr Wheeler added.

"We understand the Sky TV team will be under enormous pressure during the Olympics, which is why we will provide them with on-going support from our global customer support centre in Brazil," said Anandh Maistry, Senior Director, Citrix ANZ. “Through such support, Sky TV can broadcast confidently knowing they not only have a solution that mitigates risks and ensures operational continuity, but also an additional security layer through an international customer support function."

For more information about the benefits of Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN please visit www.citrix.com.

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About Citrix

Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is leading the transition to software-defining the workplace, uniting virtualisation, mobility management, networking and SaaS solutions to enable new ways for businesses and people to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility through secure, mobile workspaces that provide people with instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over any network and cloud. With annual revenue in 2015 of $3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 400,000 organisations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

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