Learn more about how to deploy multicast in your organisation. Join us from 24 - 25 September 2014 at EBU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland for the EBU Multicast workshop.
Many believe that multicast solves a lot of problems related to the online delivery of live content. Strangely enough, this 30 year old technique, is not widely used due to the fact that it is not supported by all service providers end-to-end. The EBU Multicast Workshop is designed to give practical knowledge to participants about how, in 2014, you can overcome this limitation, deploy multicast for your online live services and benefit from the results.
The Workshop is aimed at those involved in online video delivery. DAY 1 will focus on the general business and technical aspects related to multicast. For instance, the advantages of multicast for broadcasters and how it differs from unicast delivery will be discussed. The session will then go deeper into the subject of multicast deployment by service providers in their own access networks for their managed services. It will also cover why the Internet is not multicast enabled everywhere. Practical solutions will be provided: for example, the main focus will be on Automatic IP Multicast without explicit Tunnels (AMT), which is an IETF draft that should become an RFC standard soon.
On DAY 2, participants will have the opportunity to get hands-on with programming and other aspects needed to enable their services for multicast using AMT. An AMT-test-network will be provided and step-by-step, the Workshop will walk you through all of the details you need to know in relation to the deployment (from initialising a network to player settings). Participants are invited to bring their own player code to test in an AMT multicast environment.
Registration is compulsory (free for members) and on a first come first serve basis as there are a limited amount of seats.
Registration here