Case Studies

As more and more video content is being served over the internet, delivering high quality video with a satisfactory end user experience becomes very challenging. This challenge is increasingly more complex as consumers are accessing video streams not only from desktop browsers but also from tablets and mobile handsets over WiFi, 2.5G, 3G and 4G networks.

ING DIRECT has an internal mandate to achieve 100% customer satisfaction. To meet this goal, the company needed to assure that every customer experience was optimal. ING DIRECT had to test whether or not applications linked to a new call center in Hawaii could be deployed. Developers typically write code on a LAN. The code they write, however, typically runs on a WAN. This simple disparity is the cause of countless problems for developers, network managers and business users alike.

The popularity of interactive gaming means gaming developers must be able to design systems that support worldwide user access, across a wide range of Internet connections. Knowing that testing over the LAN would not be adequate, and realizing that even troubleshooting efforts required real-world network conditions, Codemasters turned to Shunra. Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.

Hotspot FX is committed to delivering an efficient, instantaneous and reliable means of trading in the foreign exchange market. With a requirement of being able to execute sub-second transactions, the company began looking for a partner who would enable them to validate performance across real-world networks and enable them to make wellinformed business and technology decisions about their architecture before making any investments. Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.

To drive end user satisfaction and increase bookings, Hotwire.com needed to proactively ensure its online travel applications would perform optimally under any remote end user Internet condition, before they were deployed in production. Hotwire was faced with the challenge of frequent upgrades and improvements to their eCommerce site, along with a requirement to test even the smallest of changes to see how end user experience would be impacted.Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.

With a mission to provide access anywhere, it was extremely important that Citrix meet its promise and ensure performance and quality of their tools in a wide array of network environments. The engineering team is responsible for ensuring performance and quality across networks. Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.

For the British Broadcasting System, one of the world’s most prestigious and sophisticated broadcast companies, worldwide performance is crucial. The BBC needed a system that would allow journalists and producers to access the central library of video clips and source material from anywhere in the world, and view or download these clips directly from the company’s servers. But designing such a system was proving problematic for the BBC’s research team.Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.

When Utah State University tested their new distance learning system in the lab, it performed very well. But, the university had the foresight to know that the remote user experience would be impacted by real-world network impediments. Recreating actual network characteristics in the lab was a daunting challenge, especially considering the variety of networks their students would be using. Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) needed to ensure that multi-player PlayStation® 2 games are optimized for network gaming.Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.

Prior to establishing an offshore advertising design studio, Pindar Set needed to confirm the remote availability and reliability of its new advertisement management system via both satellite and terrestrial links. Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.