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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.