Sydney
November 6-8, 2017

Event Details

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Virtualizing your Live-TV HeadEnd: Multicast and zero packet loss on OpenStack

Live media processing is one of the most challenging workloads to be run on a cloud due to carrier-grade network and service availability requirements combined with multicast traffic and complex brown field environments.
This joint session with Swisscom (Schweiz) AG, market leading TV provider in Switzerland, will explain why and how Swisscom is utilizing OpenStack to increase business agility and drastically reduce cost by virtualizing and orchestrating the management and production of Live TV channels, going into details of what technical challenges were faced during the project phase and how they were solved:
- How are NFV principles and reference architectures applicable to media workloads?
- How can Swisscom save 30% cost in the production of TV channels in a virtual headend?
- Why did multicast traffic not work on OVS when the project started, and how did we make it work?
- Why can it make sense to run Docker containers in a virtual machine?

 


What can I expect to learn?

- How are NFV principles and reference architectures applicable to media workloads?
- How can Swisscom save 30% cost in the production of TV channels in a virtual headend?
- Why did multicast traffic not work on OVS when the project started, and how did we make it work?
- Why can it make sense to run Docker containers in a virtual machine?

Wednesday, November 8, 11:50am-12:30pm (12:50am - 1:30am UTC)
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Lead Architect HPE WW Digital Video Solutions
Marco joined Swisscom in July 2018, where he is responsible for virtualization and cloudification of the Swisscom IPTV Platform. Before joining Swisscom, Marco was working for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. From 2012 until 2014 he has been working as Cloud Architect, designing and implementing private cloud IaaS projects. End of 2014 he moved into the telco cloud group and has been responsible... FULL PROFILE
OpenStack Consultant
Darragh is a technical consultant for HPE Ireland who specializes in OpenStack networking. He does OpenStack installations, toubleshooting, performance tuning/benchmarking and integrating third pary SDN products for telco customers running NFV workloads. Main areas: HPE Helion, Neutron, Nova, OVS, DPDK, Python, Ansible and Linux networking. FULL PROFILE
Swisscom Ltd., Product Owner
Miha has over 20 years of technical experience ranging from modern NFV technology to classical compute landscapes and utilising them to deliver state of the art custom and off the shelf applications.  He has Networking knowledge and is CISCO certified, allowing him to understand not only fundamental networking but get involved in detailed discussion when building and maintaining... FULL PROFILE