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Case Studies
8 deployments with real numbers
12 Million Security Events Per Day. Their VSOC Had 4 People.
A European OEM rolled out connected services to 2.3 million vehicles. The security telemetry hit like a fire hose - 47GB per vehicle per day. Their cloud IDS couldn't keep up, and their 4-person VSOC was triaging alerts from last week.
Their AWS Bill Was Higher Than Their Drone Fleet
A forestry mapping company was uploading 2.7TB of drone imagery to AWS daily during fire season. The compute and egress costs hit $127K per month. Meanwhile, clients waited 2-3 days for orthomosaics that could have been done locally in 4 hours.
They Deleted 93% of Their Evidence
A major U.S. city had 14,847 cameras. After 7 days, the video got deleted - not because they wanted to, but because storing 4.7 petabytes per month at cloud rates would bankrupt the department. Detectives learned to solve cases fast or not at all.
Their RIC Was Making Decisions on 2-Second-Old Data
Open RAN promises intelligent network optimization. But when your telemetry takes 2.3 seconds to reach the RIC, you're optimizing based on what the network looked like 2.3 seconds ago. In mobile, that's ancient history.
When 150ms Is Too Slow for Live Sports
A major North American sports league was losing the broadcast graphics race. Their cloud-first architecture meant on-screen stats lagged the action by a visible half-second. Fans at home saw the replay before the score updated.
When Your Satellite Window Is 4 Minutes
The Navy's unmanned vessel program had a problem: their ML models needed updates, but the vessels were underwater. Satellite links cost $14/minute and dropped constantly. Cloud-based ML wasn't going to work.
Their CFO Asked Why Splunk Cost More Than Their Core Banking Platform
The Splunk renewal came in at $3.7M. For context, that was more than they spent on their core banking middleware. The problem wasn't Splunk - it was that 73% of what they were ingesting was debug logs and health checks.
Their UUV Had to Surface to Think
A defense contractor's UUV program had a problem. The vehicles collected acoustic data just fine. But to classify what they found, they had to surface and phone home. In contested waters, surfacing to check email is a bad plan.