Accelerating Olympic Winter Games Footage from Sochi, Russia to Stamford, CT

摘要

This paper examines how NBC Sports Groupensured the efficient file delivery of the 2014 Olympic WinterGames event footage between Sochi, Russia and Stamford,Connecticut to facilitate remote production using theFileCatalyst Direct solution. The file transfer objectives setfor the event included the high speed delivery of eventfootage over a global connection, the high speed delivery ofevent footage over a regional connection, the transfer oflarge, dynamic file sets consisting of up to 100 videos, andthe successful transfer of non-standard MXF files. Whileworking to meet these file transfer objectives, NBC SportsGroup faced several challenges including latency, packetloss, reliability, and obtaining a solution which couldexecute the concurrent transfers of growing files. Afterevaluating several file transfer alternatives, FileCatalystDirect was selected and successfully deployed to deliver allevent footage for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.