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Have you ever wondered how broadcast TV signals get from the sports venues to over a hundred TV transmitters scattered around the United Kingdom? Over 95% of all video signals destined for UK broadcast traverse dedicated networks managed by British Telecom (BT) Networks.
BT’s next generation network infrastructure is a system called Vena. To build Vena, BT embraced Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) as a paradigm to allow users to manage their own services and to quickly establish new video feeds within a few mouse clicks. BT automated the task of alarm monitoring and fault reporting within their network’s operational International Media Centre.
To make Vena tick, BT needs to monitor thousands of complex devices, which could be deployed at race courses, rugby grounds and football stadiums across the country. As well as telemetry data from TV transmitter sites which could be situated on far flung Scottish islands. To handle this, BT turned to Confluent Platform as the backbone of its event handling and alarm correlation infrastructure.
In this talk we will explain the scale of the challenge we faced, how we leveraged Confluent Platform to address it as well as giving a live demonstration of booking a video feed from Birmingham to the Kafka Summit.
James Radley started his career designing computer graphic rendering engines in the late 1980s. He spent most of the 1990s designing fault-tolerant computers and developing resilient UNIX-based operating systems. From 2000 through to 2018 he was a field-based solutions architect selling specialist network technology into customers around the globe. Since 2018 he’s been the technical lead on BT’s Vena program, building a fully orchestrated UK-wide network dedicated to the distribution of real-time broadcast TV feeds.
Ajit Dani is the principle solution architect at BT for Vena, with over 16 years of experience in software engineering and design. Over the last decade, he’s been involved in designing software systems which deal with orchestration, controllers, and service assurance for broadband, 4G, SD-WAN, and broadcast networks for various customers. He is a self-motivated and passionate individual who likes to travel and is an animal lover.