IMAGICA office AWS Direct Connect Colt Cloud Connectivity Service 1Gbps Asia Pacific Colt Case study © 2018 Colt Technology Services Group Limited. The Colt name and logos are trademarks. All rights reserved. Ref: 05/2018 About IMAGICA In addition to post-production services, at IMAGICA we offer archiving services which include repairing and converting valuable historical video footage for coming generations, streamlining workflows for ever-changing production environments like high-res visual production, and online data archiving services to meet the various demands of production work. We’ve also started to offer post-production services for major projects in Asia, the U.S., and Europe through the establishment of IMAGICA South East Asia, and we’re working aggressively to distribute Japanese content globally as well. IMAGICA’s mission is to “bring video communication to life”, and to this end, we’ve adopted Colt’s low-latency, high- bandwidth network to quickly and efficiently process the large volumes of video data we work with. I look forward to Colt continuing to provide us with reliable network services for our mission-critical IT infrastructure. Takaaki Kudo Manager, R&D Group Technology Administration Department IMAGICA’s business challenge With our previous VPN, it took much time to upload large volumes of video data since the connection was of poor quality. We decided it would be much more efficient to combine AWS computing resources with a low-latency, high- bandwidth network service. Low latency was especially important to us due to the frequency we needed remotely duplicate high-volume video data – the lower the RTD (round trip delay) latency, the more efficient we can work. Why Colt IMAGICA processes terabytes upon terabytes of video data each week, so we need a network provider that offers low-latency and high-bandwidth. Another factor we need to consider is the ability to handle requests from our end-users, especially those that require temporary bandwidth upscaling with short lead times for video production. Price, of course, was another important factor. Colt impressed us with their track record in serving the financial industry and performed with the least amount of latency in our tests. On top of that, their service offers great price-to-performance. Future plans Colt has helped us tackle our bandwidth requirements and enabled us to process large volumes of data efficiently. We’re very satisfied with the smoothness of operation with Colt Network Services. As we are expanding our business globally, we hope to partner with Colt in regions outside of Japan as well. Company name IMAGICA Corporation Website http://www.imagica.com/ Industry Media industry Scope of business Film/television/advertising video and sound production, DCP (digital cinema package) production, content delivery/distribution services, film developing, digital compositing, VFX/ CG, localization services such as dubbing and subtitling, and other film technology related services Summary IMAGICA selects Colt’s low-latency, high-bandwidth cloud connectivity service (1Gbps) to satisfy their video data transfer requirements Customer needs • High-bandwidth, dedicated access to AWS • Low-latency network to process large volumes of video data • Short delivery time • Excellent price-to-performance IMAGICA Corporation Selects Colt’s low-latency, high-bandwidth Dedicated Cloud Access to handle mass video data Case study : media industry