Nationwide OTT & IPTV Streaming Architecture
ArchitectureVerizon / OnCue · Jun 2014 – Mar 2016
Infrastructure architecture supporting 1,000+ edge locations, 40+ POPs, and 20+ content data centers with 15+ Pbps throughput for go90 and FiOS IPTV, yielding $80M in cost savings.
Overview
Led the infrastructure architecture and design of a nationwide OTT and IPTV video streaming service supporting the go90 by Verizon and FiOS IPTV products. Designed high-level application architecture changes that more efficiently ingested, encoded, and delivered video, leading to enormous savings in both capital and operational costs. Designed and deployed server, storage, and network infrastructure across 75+ data centers and drove adoption of Dell/Force10 Open Networking for significant cost savings and architectural simplification.
Key Highlights
- Infrastructure architecture supporting 1,000+ edge locations, 40+ POPs, 20+ content ingest/encoding data centers with 15+ Pbps throughput
- Designed application architecture changes for more efficient video ingest, encoding, and delivery
- Server, storage, and network hardware evaluation resulting in $80M cost savings
- Drove adoption of Dell/Force10 Open Networking for simplified architecture and increased flexibility
- Planning and tracking of $200M+ CAPEX budget for server and storage hardware
- Ansible automation of ceph cluster deployment and Linux login authentication via AD/LDAP
- Managed team across 75+ data centers
- Proactive research of high-density servers, low-power chipsets, and high-density video encoding solutions