Industry · Media & Entertainment · MENA · UAE, KSA, Egypt & beyond

A pipeline that delivers live, everywhere.

Huawei Cloud Internet Media is what Starzplay used to serve 3.2 million paid viewers at the Cricket World Cup peak, what Mango TV used to reduce 4K production cost 10×, and what BBTV used to drop TCO 30%. CDN across 170+ countries with 12 MENA + Central Asia presence. Low-latency live under 800ms. MetaStudio digital humans in 18 languages including Arabic.

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Paid viewers · Starzplay at the Cricket World Cup peak on Huawei Cloud
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End-to-end latency on Huawei Low Latency Live (sub-second)
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CDN nodes across 170+ countries, including 12 MENA + Central Asia
RIYADH
DUBAI
CAIRO
DOHA
AMMAN
LONDON
Content origin
Live
170+ countries · 2,800+ CDN nodes

Already streaming, at MENA + global scale.

Published references · Huawei Cloud + customer publications
3.2M+
Starzplay paid users (MENA)
Top-2 OTT platform in the Middle East — rebuilt on Huawei Cloud full-stack serverless. Handled the Cricket World Cup traffic peak smoothly for 3.2M+ paid viewers.
10×
4K production cost reduction
Mango TV reduced 4K production costs by more than 10x using Huawei Cloud — the published flagship case for high-volume content production economics.
18 langs
MetaStudio digital humans, incl. Arabic
18 supported languages including Arabic. >95% lip-sync accuracy, 99.9% pronunciation accuracy, <3s end-to-end latency for live virtual hosts.
4×
AI rendering efficiency
AI rendering acceleration + device-cloud collaborative rendering deliver 4x throughput improvement and 30% lower power consumption (Huawei published).
From camera to viewer, in five stages

Five stages decide whether the stream feels live or feels late.

A piece of content goes through the same five stages on every modern streaming platform — ingest, transcode, package, deliver, engage. Pick a stage to see what is happening to the content, the latency budget at that step, and the named Huawei capability that handles it.

What happens to the content

Latency budget

What the platform delivers

Solutions catalogue

What you can run for media today.

Huawei publishes a named set of media sub-products underneath the Internet Media solution. Each one drops into the broadcast pipeline at a specific stage — assembled into a streaming platform, not built from scratch.

CDN

CDN · VOD/Livestreaming Acceleration

2,800+ nodes across 170+ countries — and 12 MENA + Central Asia country footprint — delivering content close to the viewer instead of from a single origin.

  • 2,800+ CDN nodes worldwide; 12+ MENA + Central Asia country coverage (UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, more)
  • >100 Tbit/s bandwidth reserve absorbs event-day surges without origin pressure
  • Live sports streaming reference: the same CDN behind Starzplay at the Cricket World Cup peak
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LIVE

Huawei Cloud Live

Real-time live-streaming service with sub-second end-to-end latency, designed for sports events, breaking news, interactive shopping, and live-music broadcasts.

  • Low Latency Live: end-to-end latency under 800ms (Huawei published)
  • Real-time transcoding across H.264 / H.265 + multi-bitrate ladders
  • Provisioning supports 3,000 pods/min when traffic ramps unexpectedly
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VOD

Huawei Cloud VOD

Video-on-demand service with packaging, DRM token issuance, ad-break markers, subtitle tracks — the layer that makes content actually playable.

  • Manifest generation for HLS and DASH playback
  • Token-based playback control + integration with third-party DRM
  • Built into the same pipeline as Live and CDN for unified content operations
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MS

MetaStudio · Digital Humans

AI-driven virtual avatars and digital humans — modeling, control, editing, rendering, compositing. The same tooling used for virtual ambassadors, news broadcast, live commerce, and educational content.

  • 18 languages including Arabic; >95% lip-sync; 99.9% pronunciation accuracy
  • Voice training from 10 minutes of mobile audio; avatar training in ≤7 working days
  • 1 SDK + 5 lines of code integration into existing apps
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AI

AI Rendering Acceleration

Device-cloud collaborative rendering — the Huawei published 4x efficiency improvement with 30% lower power consumption for production-grade rendering pipelines.

  • 4x rendering throughput improvement (Huawei published)
  • 30% reduction in power consumption versus pure cloud rendering
  • Mango TV reduced 4K production costs by more than 10x using this stack
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MRS

MapReduce Service (MRS) + Intelligent Search

The data + recommendation layer underneath modern streaming services — decoupled storage and compute, TB-scale data returned in milliseconds for personalisation and ad targeting.

  • Decoupled storage and compute halves cost vs traditional architectures
  • TB-level data returned in milliseconds for recommendation queries
  • Plugs into VOD and Live so the recommendation engine sees real engagement
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Case studies · Huawei published references

Streaming platforms already running on it.

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Starzplay
MENA · Top-2 OTT platform
3.2M+
Paid viewers · Cricket World Cup peak

Starzplay rebuilt on Huawei Cloud full-stack serverless architecture and handled the Cricket World Cup traffic peak smoothly for over 3.2 million paid viewers — the headline MENA streaming reference for elastic peak-event scaling.

Source · Huawei Cloud MENA published reference
BB
BBTV Channel 7
Thailand · National broadcaster
10M
Users · 20%+ perf · 30% TCO down

BBTV operates one of Thailand's major broadcast networks with 10 million users on the platform. Migration to Huawei Cloud delivered service performance up 20%+ and total cost of ownership down 30%.

Source · Huawei Cloud case study Read the case
MG
Mango TV
China · Multimedia + variety
10×
4K production cost reduction

Mango TV reduced 4K content production costs by more than 10 times using Huawei Cloud — the published flagship case for how AI rendering acceleration economically reshapes high-volume content operations.

Source · Huawei Cloud case study
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TOGL Yippi
Asia-Pacific · Social video
75%
User growth in 10 months

Yippi, a social messaging platform with embedded video, hit 75% user growth in ten months on Huawei Cloud — the reference for fast-growing social-video platforms that need elasticity without rearchitecture.

Source · Huawei Cloud case study Read the case
What the partnership delivers

Why DDS for media & entertainment.

Sub-second live, proven at peak

Huawei Low Latency Live delivers end-to-end latency under 800ms. The same CDN that handled 3.2M+ paid Starzplay viewers at the Cricket World Cup peak is the one your platform inherits — including 12 MENA + Central Asia country presence so the viewer in Jeddah or Cairo gets the stream from a node down the road, not from a continent away.

AI rendering that actually changes the economics

Mango TV cut 4K production costs by more than 10x on Huawei Cloud. That is not a margin improvement — that is a different content business. AI rendering acceleration plus device-cloud collaborative rendering delivers 4x throughput at 30% lower power. Content slates that were not viable on the old economics become viable on these.

Digital humans in Arabic, not translated from English

Huawei MetaStudio supports 18 languages including Arabic, with >95% lip-sync accuracy and 99.9% pronunciation accuracy. Virtual hosts for live shopping, news anchors for breaking-news segments, brand ambassadors for marketing — produced for the Arabic-speaking viewer with the same fidelity Western platforms get for English.

Compliance ledger

Standards the infrastructure meets.

Assessed and updated quarterly. Certificates available on request.

DRM
Multi-DRM (Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady)
Industry standards
PCI
PCI DSS (paid streaming + ads)
PCI Security Council
PDPL
Saudi PDPL (viewer data)
Saudi Government
GDPR
GDPR (international viewers)
EU residents
CDN
CDN content licensing controls
Geo-fencing + token-based playback
27K
ISO 27001 · 27017 · 27018
ISO / IEC · global
Buyer questions

Things media & entertainment teams ask first.

01Will it actually scale for a final or a championship?+
On the published numbers, yes. Starzplay served 3.2M+ paid viewers at the Cricket World Cup peak on this stack. The Huawei CDN has 2,800+ nodes across 170+ countries with over 100 Tbit/s of bandwidth in reserve; Live provisioning supports 3,000 pods per minute. The architecture that handled that final is the one your platform inherits.
02How does the MENA CDN footprint compare?+
Huawei Cloud has CDN sites across 12 Middle East and Central Asia countries — including UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman. A viewer in Jeddah or Cairo pulls the stream from a node in the same country, not from a distant edge. That is the difference between sub-second live and the buffering experience your competitor delivers.
03Is MetaStudio actually any good in Arabic, or is it translated from English?+
Native first-class support. Arabic is one of 18 supported languages with >95% lip-sync accuracy and 99.9% pronunciation accuracy. Voice training takes 10 minutes of mobile audio; full avatar training takes up to 7 working days. End-to-end latency for live virtual humans is under 3 seconds.
04How are content protection and DRM handled?+
Multi-DRM support across Widevine, FairPlay, and PlayReady is built into the VOD service. Token-based playback control + geo-fencing at the CDN layer enforce regional licensing. KMS handles cryptographic operations on hardware-backed keys, which keeps DRM tokens out of the application layer.
05What about ad insertion and recommendation?+
Ad markers are inserted at the Package stage of the pipeline (VOD service). Recommendation runs on MapReduce Service with intelligent search — the published claim is that TB-level data is returned in milliseconds. Decoupled storage and compute halves the cost of the recommendation backend versus traditional architectures.
06Can we cut content production cost the way Mango TV did?+
Possibly. Mango TV achieved >10x 4K production cost reduction using AI rendering acceleration on Huawei Cloud — 4x throughput at 30% lower power versus traditional cloud rendering. The economics depend on your content slate, but the platform capability is published and named.

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