Learn how TV New Zealand and France Television broadcast the Commonwealth Games and a major cycling event using AWS Media Services. Broadcasting live events is unpredictable. Reliability, agility, and scale all play important roles in ensuring a broadcast takes place without issues. Learn how to create channels on the fly for live events and how to seamlessly handle a fluctuation or influx of viewers using AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and Amazon CloudFront. 

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Broadcasting the World's Largest Sporting
Events - AWS Media Services for When it
Matters Most
Andrew Blakey
Development Manager
TVNZ
C T D 2 0 6
Raphaël Goldwaser
Video Architect
France Télévisions
Greg Truax
Director of Engineering
AWS Elemental

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Presenters
 Greg Truax – Product Owner, Live Encoding Services, AWS Elemental
 Andrew Blakey – Development Manager, TV New Zealand
 Raphaël Goldwaser – TV Architect, France Télévisions

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Most-watched US primetime telecasts of 2017, total viewers
RANK LIVE SHOW & NETWORK TOTAL VIEWERS AIRDATE
1 ✓ Super Bowl LI: New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons Fox 111,998,000 2/5/17
2 ✓ AFC Championship: New England Patriots vs. Pittsburgh Steelers CBS 48,070,000 1/22/17
3 ✓ NFL Divisional Playoff: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Kansas City Chiefs NBC 37,291,000 1/15/17
4 ✓ The Oscars ABC 34,115,000 2/26/17
5 ✓ NFL Divisional Playoff: New England Patriots vs. Houston Texans CBS 29,997,000 1/14/17
6 ✓ World Series Game 7: Houston Astros vs. Los Angeles Dodgers Fox 28,367,000 11/1/17
7 ✓ Grammy Awards CBS 27,594,000 2/12/17
8 ✓ NFL Playoff: Seattle Seahawks vs. Detroit Lions NBC 27,011,000 1/7/17
9 ✓ NBA Finals Game 5: Golden State Warriors vs.Cleveland Cavaliers ABC 24,788,000 6/12/17
10 ✓ College Football Championship: Clemson vs. Alabama ESPN 24,667,000 1/9/17
11 ✓ NFL Sunday Night Football: Dallas Cowboys vs. New York Giants NBC 24,532,000 9/10/17
12 ✓ NFL Sunday Night Football: Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions NBC 23,972,000 1/1/17
13 ✓ NCAA Basketball Championship: North Carolina vs. Gonzaga CBS 23,261,000 4/3/17
14 ✘ The Big Bang Theory (1101: “The Proposal Proposal”) CBS 23,079,000 9/25/17
15 ✘ Young Sheldon (101: Pilot) CBS 22,461,000 9/25/17
16 ✓ World Series Game 6: Houston Astros vs. Los Angeles Dodgers Fox 22,372,000 10/31/17
17 ✓ NFL Sunday Night Football: Kansas City Chiefs vs. New England Patriots NBC 21,973,000 9/7/17
18 ✘ The Big Bang Theory (1012: “The Holiday Summation”) CBS 21,959,000 1/5/17
19 ✓ NFL Sunday Night Football: Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys NBC 21,198,000 11/19/17
20 ✓ Oscars Red Carpet Preview Show ABC 21,069,000 2/26/17

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Is 2018 a tipping point for OTT sports?
 A year with multiple events
 February - Winter Olympics
 April - Commonwealth Games
 June – July - FIFA World Cup
 July - Tour de France
 September - ACC Asia Cup

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Why would I watch sports on the internet?
 Larger content libraries
 Long-tail events can be broadcast without using scarce spectrum
 Picture quality is better:
 More advanced codecs for OTT (HEVC+AVC, vs MPEG-2 and AVC for
broadcast)
 HDR displays readily available on smartphones and smart TVs
 4K UHD resolution primarily distributed OTT

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Why would I watch sports on the internet?
 Latency has shrunk to levels that meet OTA/Cable/Satellite
 Superior user experience in apps
 Alternate camera angles
 Alternate audio commentary
 Time-shifting
 Automated highlight clipping
 Advanced statistics
 Player recognition/tracking
 Realtime chat/social media

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Why is OTT streaming a good fit for the cloud?
 Sport events span over only a few weeks: You don’t
need large CAPEX for those events, and you can get
more computing resources whenever needed
 Scaling to millions of users: From your venue, you
provision your output feed, and let the AWS solution
scale to large audiences and absorb peaks of
consumption, from encoding to delivery
 Resiliency: Sports content is premium, and you can’t
afford to miss it. AWS Elemental Media Services are
running on multiple Availability Zones and provide
the highest level of redundancy

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Resilient Architecture
AWS Region
AWS Elemental
MediaLive
Live Video
Processing
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage
Origination and
JIT Packaging
Amazon
CloudFront
Content Delivery
Network
AWS Elemental
Live
AWS Elemental
Live

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Resilient Architecture – AWS Elemental MediaLive
Auto Scaling groups
Input A
Input B
Pipeline A
Pipeline B
Destination A
Destination B
Availability zone
Region
Synchronized
Live Channel Configuration

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Resilient Architecture – AWS Elemental MediaPackage
Auto Scaling groups
Ingest A
Ingest B Ingest Packaging, Egress, and Cache
• Streaming distribution
endpoints
Automaticfailover
betweenredundantinputs
Storage and
Database
Availability zone
Region

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Two customer workflows

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TVNZ
Andrew Blakey
Development Manager
TVNZ

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Streaming Architecture – Oct 2017
Public Internet AES 128 keys
TVNZ Data Centre
Legacy CDN
Monitoring
Amazon S3

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TVNZ and AWS’s streaming journey
Unified Video
Managment
Live Video
Processing
CDNSources
End User
Devices
Amazon
CloudFront
AWS WAF
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Elemental
MediaLive
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage

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CWG Broadcast Video Workflows
Gold Coast TVNZ Auckland
V1.0-Colour,News,Prod
Panasonic AVC100
News Camera
HD
Camera Operator
LiveU
Live U TX
HD
Camera Operator
LiveU
Live U RX
Auckland
NTC
EVERTZ
Production Matrix
NTC
Various
Studio 4 IN
HD
NTC
IP
Given fixed at venue or 4G Various
Studio 1 IN
HD
NTC
AVID
News Record
(SD)
NTC
Down convert
required
Liveand feeds should
bein HD. Crew to
confirm quality with
NTC to confirm
available band width
NOTE: Crews to request IFB
and Comms for both Studio
1 and Studio 4 from NTC
Black Magic
IBC Production Matrix
Gold Coast TM
Fibre
LiveU
Live U
DR Wellington
NTC
OTN
Camera Operator
GX
Sat phone IP
connection –
emergency back-up

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CWG Online Streaming Architecture
TVNZ Data Centre
AWS Stack
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Elemental
MediaLive
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage
Edge
Location
AWS WAF
Amazon S3
bucket
Amazon
CloudFront
Amazon
Athena
Amazon
CloudWatch
Lambda
function

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CWG Online Redundancy
TVNZ Data Centre
AWS Stack
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Elemental
MediaLive
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage
Amazon
CloudFront
Legacy CDN
Full HLS ABR
AWS Elemental
MediaPackage
Amazon
CloudFront
AWS WAF
AWS WAF

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CWG Results
 3 million broadcast TV
viewers
 2.3 million live streams
 49 million streamed minutes

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Lessons Learned

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What’s Next?

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Benefits of AWS Elemental

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France Télévisions
Raphaël Goldwaser
Lead Video Architect
France Télévisions

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