This year's Glastonbury festival saw more than 30 hours of coverage across a variety of BBC outlets. Alongside the live programming on the 'traditional' channels, the Corporation continued to build on its digital offering by providing streaming in HD for the first time. So, what were its considerations when it comes to the use of encoders and IP technology? "It's all about managing the IP network for broadcast," states BBC News location engineer, Geoff House, who along with Phil Cannon managed that side of the Glastonbury operation. "Packet loss, jitter and network outages have to be avoided at all costs. We worked hard to design and deliver a network with redundancy and flexibility which is capable of carrying audio and video streams 24 hours a day. We also had to deploy extensive onsite network monitoring to make sure any potential problems were caught before they affected output."
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