Tagged with: Media Distribution
Posts (14)
BBC Online - 2019 in review
Neil Craig
Lead Technical Architect, D&E
Neil Craig reviews the technical highlights of 2019
Leveraging the Tor Network to circumvent blocking of BBC News content
Abdallah al-Salmi
Strategy Analyst, BBC News
Abdallah al-Salmi explains the reasoning behind making the BBC World Service news website available on the Tor Network.
Broadcasting the World Cup and Wimbledon in UHD - the full story
Jim Simmons
Senior Product Manager
Jim Simmons from D+E Platform Media Services, discusses our experience of delivering live Ultra High Definition at scale for the World Cup and Wimbledon on a round-by-round basis.
Inside our UHD workflow
Lloyd Wallis
Software Engineer, Media Playout
Lloyd Wallis from Media Services explains some of the challenges behind creating UHD workflows for the World Cup.
The road to an IP future
Matthew Postgate
Chief Technology and Product Officer, BBC D&E
BBC D&E Chief Technology and Product Officer Matthew Postgate summarises his speech to the DTG on an IP future.
Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs
Elliot Thomas
Software Engineer
We operate a HTTP cache known as Radix. Its purpose is to act as a uniform origin for client-facing HTTP distribution systems. With new streaming formats and ever increasing bitrates putting strain on the existing storage capacity, these systems do require upgrades from time to time.
Balancing, spikes & speed: Architecting media distribution cloud services
Henry Rodrick
Senior Software Engineer
Cloud technologies have radically changed how most organizations develop and deploy software, and the BBC is no exception. Within the BBC, we’re using the AWS platform a great deal, for instance the CloudFormation infrastructure management tool and our own AWS based deployment system Cosmos.
BIDI: The BBC Internet Distribution Infrastructure explained
Federico Benedetto
Product Manager
BIDI is the BBC’s own content distribution platform and is responsible for delivering media directly to the BBC end users in the UK. The clients are always presented with a ‘CDN mix’ from which they can fetch the media they are interested in. BIDI is part of this mix, alongside the commercial CDNs.
CRL extensions and Apache 2.4
Nikos Tsouknidas
Senior Software Engineer
In the Online Technology Group (OTG) Media Distribution team, we use digital certificates for service-to-service and user-to-service secured communication. We rely on centralised policies and procedures for issuing and updating all our certificates.
Making a Standard Media Player for Android
Matt Mould
Software Engineer
Users of the BBC’s Android mobile applications are familiar with the need to install the separate BBC Media Player application to access multimedia content. This application is a solution for playing video using the proprietary Adobe Air media format.
