Customer overview
The customer is a free broadcast and Internet radio platform. The platform functions as a music recommender system and is the national umbrella brand for the company's radio network, aggregating its over 235 local radio stations across the United States.
The CDW DV Team engaged with the customer in a Discovery Workshop (PoC) focused on designing, virtualizing, and automating the deployment of its broadcast system, referred to as "Studio-in-a-Box".
The challenge
The customer's onsite studio hardware had become expensive and cumbersome to deploy at edge scale, leading to challenges supporting on-demand broadcast events in secondary or tertiary markets where a main broadcast hub does not exist. Additionally, the client had difficulty with hiring and retention of skilled engineering teams in-market to deploy and manage disparate infrastructure.
The solution
CDW and GCP worked together to develop an Anthos design document which defines the architecture of the environment and supported workloads as they will exist on-premises. The deliverable for phase 1 was a design document which captured design and architecture decisions made to support the target workloads for this deployment.
The result
CDW and GCP successfully validated a Proof of Technology as measured by a successful deployment of a single, virtualized “juke-box” style station on Anthos on Bare Metal. Centralized monitoring and management of the edge hardware and associated GCP Anthos services needed for the broadcast audio chain. Accelerated and standardized deployment of studio in a box allowing for on demand broadcasts.
Centralized edge infrastructure management
