Lunar Digital’s Hybrid Media Cloud

With multiple satellites capturing thousands of channels throughout the UK, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Lunar Digital is your partner of choice when it comes to live capture TV.

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Your digital media and streaming platform of choice

Lunar Digital’s Hybrid Media Cloud Platform is the digital platform of choice for media and streaming customers. The platform enables customers to capture live TV, Radio and Satellite or Cable channels and stream them directly over an IP network at any resolution.

Using our multicast network ensures that streams are only delivered to applications that require them providing scalability. Streams can be delivered to clients equipment colocated within our data centres, Virtual Machines provided by Lunar Digital or streamed over our Cloud Connect service directly to AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

Full access

Access to multiple satellites and thousands of channels throughout the UK and EMEA from Lunar Digital’s UK data centres

Low latency

Access to Lunar Digital’s low latency high capacity multicast enabled network

Reduced hardware requirements

No need to deploy hardware to receive and stream channels

Direct connection

Access to LD Cloud Connect providing direct access to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

By nature, the demand for effective media can surge

Lunar Digital offers highly scalable solutions that enable media companies to effortlessly handle surges in demand and expand their services.

With our state of the art data centres and cutting-edge technology, we empower our clients to seamlessly scale their infrastructure and deliver high-quality streaming and media content to their audiences.

Whether it's a sudden increase in viewership or the need to accommodate new services, Lunar Digital provides the flexibility and reliability that media companies require to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry.

We operate four high-spec facilities

State of the art facilities

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At Lunar Digital, we pride ourselves on our four cutting-edge data centres.

Each facility is designed to provide the highest level of security, reliability, and performance for your critical IT infrastructure.

With state of the art technology and a team of industry experts, we deliver trusted solutions that give you peace of mind.

Lunar 1

Lunar 1, located in one of Manchester's best-connected areas, is ideal for clients needing resilient colocation solutions. It features three data halls with a maximum floor load capacity of 1,500 kg/m². Key technical features include a robust DX CRAC cooling system with 1.7 MVA capacity and N+1 redundancy.

Central Manchester

2,684 m2

Gross size

2,122 m2

Net customer space

N+1

Power resilience

PUE 1.4

Power Usage Effectiveness

Lunar 1

Lunar 1, located in one of Manchester's best-connected areas, is ideal for clients needing resilient colocation solutions. ith 1.7 MVA capacity and N+1 redundancy.Lunar 1, located in one of Manchester's best-connected areas, is ideal for clients needing resilient colocation solutions. ith 1.7 MVA capacity and N+1 redundancy.Lunar 1, located in one of Manchester's best-connected areas, is ideal for clients needing resilient colocation solutions. ith 1.7 MVA capacity and N+1 redundancy.

Central Manchester

2,684 m2

Gross size

2,122 m2

Net customer space

2x

Power resilience

XX PUE

Power Usage Effectiveness

Lunar 1

Central Manchester

2,684 m2

Gross size

2,122 m2

Net customer space

2x

Power resilience

XX PUE

Power Usage Effectiveness

Lunar 1

Central Manchester

2,684 m2

Gross size

2,122 m2

Net customer space

2x

Power resilience

XX PUE

Power Usage Effectiveness

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FAQs

The questions we're most often asked.

Why should we choose Lunar Digital to assist with our streaming requirements?

The team at Lunar has extensive experience of satellite downlink and distribution systems gained over many years working with major TV, music and advert analytics companies.

Can you help us to upload content to a public cloud provider from your Data Centres?

Yes we can provide direct cloud connections with a dedicated layer 2 feed into any of the major clouds directly from all of our Data Centres and on-net locations.

Which Satellites can you downlink from?

We can downlink all major European and some African satellite frequencies. If you need something further afield we can work with our partners to assist.

What is the Lunar Digital Streaming Platform?

Lunar Digital’s media platform enables customers to capture live TV, Radio and Satellite or Cable channels and stream them directly over an IP network at any resolution to any destination.

What hardware do we need to provide in order to use the streaming platform?

None, we deploy high spec Virtual Machines that are ready to ingest the multicast streams. This allows our clients to simply install their chosen build on to the VMs and not have to worry about the underlying infrastructure which is maintained and operated by Lunar Digital

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Your digital media and streaming platform of choice

Full access

Low latency

Reduced hardware requirements

Direct connection

By nature, the demand for effective media can surge

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Full name

State of the art facilities

Lunar 1

2,684 m2

2,122 m2

N+1

PUE 1.4

Lunar 1

2,684 m2

2,122 m2

2x

XX PUE

Lunar 1

2,684 m2

2,122 m2

2x

XX PUE

Lunar 1

2,684 m2

2,122 m2

2x

XX PUE

Lunar 1

2684

m2

2142

m2

2

x

1.3

PUE

Lunar 2

485

m2

465

m2

2

x

1.3

PUE

Lunar 3

836

m2

500

m2

2

x

1.3

PUE

Lunar 4

650

m2

400

m2

2

x

1.1

PUE

Lunar 5

m2

7400

m2

2

x

1.2

PUE

Lunar 6

10400

m2

6189

m2

2

x