Major Project-
Background
Since the mid-2000's the profitability of broadcast television has dropped dramatically. This is due, in part, to 'new media' and the four-fold increase in free-to-air television channels, which have fragmented audiences. In addition, the rise of peer-to-peer sharing (such as bit-torrent) has changed audience viewing habits as viewers now expect to watch content as soon as it premieres overseas or alternately in bulk at times that suit them.
With approximately two thirds of all Channel4's content is sourced from the US and other overseas content produces, piracy is having an increasing impact on their ratings. However, another key finding of the BSW report was that "Local and 'Australian Made' content premiering in Australia during prime-time is relatively immune to piracy. This is especially true of Channel4's target demographics and an increase in quality content of this type will increase profitability"
Thus Channel4 is looking to spend savings gained from operational efficiencies on local co-productions between Channel4 and independent producers.
Channel4 operates four free-to-air television channels (Channel4, C4forKids, WOW and QTV). However Channel4 outsources all its play-out capabilities to Media Hub and all its Terrestrial DVB Transmission to Broadcast Australia which has regularized and reduced their day-to-day operating costs.
Finally, BWS also recommended that all SAP, Scheduling, Records Management be moved to a Cloud provider which will reduce the cost of these systems, as well as increase redundancy and uptime. While the logistics of this migration are beyond the scope of this project, Management have requested that ongoing data-requirements of this should be factored into your design.
Summary of Requirements
The broad requirement delivered to you by Channel4 management is to analysis the network and design a network specification that can then be validated by BSW who will then provide management with recommendations about whether this design will increase operational efficiency and overall profitability based on their return on investment (ROE) calculations. If so, your reference architecture will become the basis of a tender specification by which the private sector will propose a final design specification.
In addition Management wishes the following requirements to be taken into consideration in your design;
- Decommission broadcast routers and the SDI1 and ASI2 Networks.
- Replace decommissioned broadcast routers with SDI over IP3
- Securely isolate broadcast IP Traffic from Internet and corporate traffic.
- Provide QoS plan to ensure SLA's are meet.
- Provide SLA's that meet broadcast requirements.
- Include capacity in the network for cloud-based applications.
- Include capacity to monitor the network performance against SLAs
- Remove signal points of failure for critical systems.
- Reduce ongoing costs wherever possible.
Attachment:- Assignment.rar