After years of business and technology strategizing with us, VR66 received the financial backing they needed to transform their video delivery pilot into a revenue generating product with international appeal.

VR66’s product is a video delivery platform that trickle downloads video messages to desktop PC’s outside the web browser, so users can view content on or off line. Think YouTube - plus better video quality, minus the effort it takes to visit the website. The current video content consists of movie trailers and commentary.

What did Lextech do?

Alex (our CEO) personally took on the role of VR66 technology advisor and part-time CTO, while Lextech engineers dove into the development process. They started by re-architecting the VR66 system to provide scalability, fault-tolerance and system redundancy.

The update took the system from 2 servers to 20 including implementation of web load balancers, live server fail-over and a database cluster to remove any single points of failure. The new infrastructure was then load tested to verify that it would handle 2+ million users and deliver terabytes of video data daily.

What’s the big deal?

The system upgrades allowed VR66 to launch their business, making significant progress on their path to profitability. In early January, they successfully launched the Trailer Room on Cinemas Online in the United Kingdom. May holds possible launch dates in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. Congrats VR66!!

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