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Case Study: Performance Test video streaming services with RedLine13

By: Chris Baeckstrom

RedLine13 Technology Partner UBIK has published a case study using UbikLoadPack and RedLine13 to performance test video streaming services.

Their client wanted to verify that his infrastructure could properly handle the delivery of a live sporting event with up to 150,000 watchers. The test needed to verify the following:

Test Objectives

  • Customers user experience (no lags, accuracy of stream, no delay)
  • CDN and Origin delivery performance
  • Bandwidth of the network
  • Load balancing across 2 Data centers
  • Performance Test his video streaming servers up to 150,000 players

Why They Chose RedLine13

  • Easily deploy JMeter + UbikLoadPack with a single click from a web page on multiple servers in the AWS Cloud
  • Start those servers from all over the world using AWS data centers from a simple Web Page, in this particular case, they used 5 European Data centers and 150 Servers to spread the load
  • Live feedback on performance test
  • Merged results and metrics in one CSV across all nodes
  • Get the JMeter report at end of test

Metrics and Results

  • 150 000 Virtual Users simulated realistically
  • More than 1.2 Million requests per minute
  • Around 4 Tera Bytes received
  • 150 AWS Servers spread across 5 regions

Here are results from RedLine13:

Performance Test video streaming services
Average Response Time
Requests per Minute
Performance Test video streaming services
Summary Metrics

The customer was able to successfully:

  • Run a load test with 150 000 players on premise hosting
  • Diagnose multiple configuration (Caching, TLS…), sizing problems
  • Optimize the configuration
  • Provide his end-user customer metrics showing that their services was delivering streams as per requested SLR

You Can Performance Test Your Video Streaming Services with RedLine13

Read this blog post about JMeter video streaming with UbikLoadPack and RedLine13. And try it yourself with a free subscription and performance test your video streaming services.

2022-02-23
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