IP Production and the Digital City, Dave Butler

1. IP Production and
the Digital City
Guaranteed seamless
connectivity.
David Butler
July 2015

2. Move to IP Production
Digital and file based production.
• Synchronous point to point connections.
• Dedicated production equipment.
IP Production.
• Shared many to many network.
• Production on generic computers and networks.
Live external event > long network setup time.
IP Production and the Digital City

3. 2012 Olympics:Collaboration with NHK
Streamed 8K video around the world to the US and Japan, at 350 Mb/s .
IP Production and the Digital City
Collaboration between academic
and commercial carriers:
• JANET, GÉANT, INTERNET2 ,
PacificWave, NTT and BT.
Discussions with network
operators:
• 18 months before event.

4. 2014 Commonwealth Games
Demonstrated live distributed UHD (4K) TV Production.
• H.264 compressed video at 800Mb/s.
• Source Specific Multicast video.
• HEVC live terrestrial broadcast and IPTV.
Production across multiple sites.
• Glasgow, Salford, London.
Multiple network operators and collaborators.
• JANET, Virgin Media, CISCO and BT.
Discussions with operators:
• 12 months before event.
• Network configuration 3 months (inc new fibre).
IP Production and the Digital City
100
Gb/s
100
Gb/s
Salford
Glasgow
London

5. In the future Digital City
• Turn up on the day.
• Authenticate with home production network.
• Retrieve policies and orchestration models.
• Deploy services on local machines and local clouds.
• Automatically setup electronic SLAs.
• Guaranteed flows, through multiple network providers.
• The production staff change their mind.
• Tear down and re-provision.
• The production goes LIVE.
• Similar technologies to scale in the studio.
• Whole process takes seconds or, at most, minutes.
IP Production in the Digital City

6. Future Digital City from media perspective
• Has network, compute and storage.
• Can guarantee flows and bandwidth.
• Can scale bandwidth on demand.
• Can scale compute and storage on demand.
• Has security and authentication.
• Can automate and orchestrate services and the network.
• Can extend through multiple network providers.
• Can guarantee and scale bandwidth across multiple network providers.
Also: Interactive events, live news gathering, citizen journalists, user generated content,
personalised content, content delivery networks, …..
IP Production in the Digital City

7. Thank you
bbc.co.uk/rd
david.butler@rd.bbc.co.uk
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