Eurosport Technology Transformation

Presenters : Gordon Castle - Discovery

Year : 2019

dlp_document_download : AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 1 1 Building a Private Cloud for Live Production Gordon Castle SVP, Technology and Operations Eurosport Strategic Challenges and Opportunities Today Future with ETT •Ageing infrastructure •Limited ability to enable change •Limited flexibility and difficult to scale •Technology not able to support new growth •Escalating operating cost •New infrastructure and technology approach enables location and business flexibility •Common content platform for linear and digital •Lowers technology cost of new services •Enables faster time to market for new services and consumer testing Cost savings, location flexibility and a true Digital/Linear Production environment 2 AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 2 Key Technology Challenges • Transition to 2110 and AES67 audio • Leverage public cloud and cloud stack where possible • Centralized playout • Central MAM and Content Storage • Remote production • Event -based production • Resource management • Live data graphics • Ability to provide customized feeds for all digital platforms and linear services Key Project Challenge – Time ETT Enables Business Improvement Evolution of live production •Remote production = low cost and agile live production Digital and linear growth •Cloud based approach allows for rapid scaling. •Common content hub for digital & linear Efficiency and the bottom line •Ability to efficiently use technology based on event production instead of channel production •Ability to drive cost of production and changes down 1 2 3 Dynamic, scalable and efficient content production platform An investment that creates unified digital and linear production ecosystem and common content hub to enable the growth of our digital and linear businesses 4 AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 3 Centralized Distributed ETT Scope Evolution of live production Digital and linear growth Efficiency and the bottom line 1 2 3 5 Two TechHubs supporting all live production needs for all market and products TechHub A TechHub B MCR /Traffic Control Rooms Edit Post Event Production Playout Common Access to all Content for Digital and Linear Platforms Key Technology Principles •Cloud approach for physical kit •Flexibility, scalability, redundancy, efficiency, evolution •Common access to all content with distributed operations •Unrestricted support for digital growth •IP provides the scale and flexibility needed •Over 40,000 video flows •Up to 32 discreet audio pairs per video •Dynamic system deployment and orchestration •Remote production for all – from simple to complex 6 AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 4 Challenges •Huge amount of change and an aggressive project plan •Vendor support for 2110 still evolving •Industry has focused on IP and not IT •No best practices for system and configuration management •Breaking new ground with cloud deployment approach for traditional production kit •Industry consolidation and transformation 7 Key Project Challenge – Time Technology Direction 8 DEDICATED HW On Premise VIRTUALIZE MACHINES On Premise or Data Center SHARED HW Data Center PUBLIC CLOUD Evolution of Virtualization for Live Production Current ETT AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 5 AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 6 AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 7 JT -NM 1001 – A Great Vision 13 Our Key Reality – Keeping Everything in Sync 14 Network Orchestration Config File NMOS 04 Registry Broadcast Control Service Provisioning Resource Scheduling SI Config File Config File Config File Config File Equipment and Services System Monitoring AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 8 Industry Encouragement •Embrace, support and evolve IP open standards •NMOS, JT -NM 1001 •We are fully supportive and hope that the industry and vendors enable greatly reduced installation times and simplified deployments •Create best practices for system management •NMOS and JT -NM 1001 provide some good building blocks – but limited deployments and no defined industry best practices makes is very challenging •Encourage and evolve IT and Cloud approaches leveraging proven models •DNS, DHCP, CloudStack services, Micro Services and Cloud/IT application management/deployment •Aspects of system configuration and ongoing management is undefined 15 The industry needs projects to evolve and define best practices Our Path Forward 16 Build out TechHubs Launch new MCR and Playout Centers Transition PCRs Encourage industry support and evolution Support Tokyo 2020 with ETT AIMS IP Showcase IBC 2019 September 2019 Curated by Video Services Forum vsf.tv 9 17