A Northern European IPTV operator replaced 36 hand-managed Flussonic Media Server nodes with a Catena cluster — the same 80,000 viewers and 163 channels, 70% less operations time, and 100 Gbps delivery.
A regional IPTV operator in Northern Europe
Telecom / IPTV
The operator delivered 163 live channels to 80,000 viewers from regional points of presence on 36 Flussonic Media Server nodes. With no native clustering, the team had hand-built every piece of the orchestration themselves — distributing servers across regions and monitoring each node independently. Running it took a dedicated engineer, and when something went wrong, finding the cause meant logging into server after server.
Keep serving 80,000 viewers and 163 channels reliably while cutting the operational weight of a sprawling, hand-managed estate — and be able to grow without rebuilding the wrapper each time.
The operator replaced the 36-node Flussonic Media Server estate with Catena, Flussonic's cluster-first TV delivery platform. Catena runs the 163 channels as a single managed cluster: capacity, failover, and monitoring are native instead of hand-coded. A unified control panel replaced the patchwork of per-node checks, so an incident is located in seconds rather than server-hops. The migration was done gradually, channel by channel, over roughly a month — viewers were never taken offline.
"An incident used to mean opening 36 dashboards. Now a single panel tells us where the problem is — and the person who owned that work has 70% of their week back." — Operations lead, Northern European IPTV operator