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Simon Frost, Head of EMEA Media Marketing

Cloud Education: How Ravensbourne University adopted AWS for live video, and fresh thinking

IABM Executive Summit Amsterdam | February 2019

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Ravensbourne University

A small University specializingin design and media

Around 2000 students

Education based around the intersectionof creativity and technology

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Opportunity

Utilise professional services to broadcast content

Embed function within their learning structures

First use would be for their collaboration the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) Education Department – the live Schools’ Broadcast.

Extend use for all streaming provisions for Ravensbourne events

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Royal Shakespeare CompanySchools’ Broadcast

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Before AWS and AWS Elemental

• Ravensbourne provided Main and ‘Signed’ streams to a third party streaming provider

• Schools reported streaming issues• Not able to investigate viewing issues

• In the past, a social media platform was used for two broadcasts. Majority of schools were able to view without issue

• But some were not able to access this content (due to filtering)

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Requirements for Schools’ Broadcast

ü Streaming to schools and home-learners

ü Allow for bandwidth limitations

ü Be available across the UK - Geographical issues

ü Handle an unknown numbers of schools participating

ü All on a limited budget

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Transcoding

MediaLive

TN22249 Variants x 2

Redundancy

DestinationSource

SIGNED PGMPLACEHOLDER

Studio

HD-SDI 1080i50

Main PGMBSL PGM

MediaPackage

HLS Manifest

Packaging

CloudFront

CDN

Distribution

Encoder

8 Mbps x 4

Deinterlaced

4 Mbps x 2

RTMP

Encoding

video.js

Player

Social Media

Ravensbourne live streaming workflow

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Macbeth Schools’ Broadcast

Metrics• 82,540 School children reached• 645 Schools - 22 ‘Signed’• 13.3 TB over the CDN• 63% received highest quality

stream• 1080p 8Mbps

• No schools reported streaming issues

• Learned that not all schools watched on recommended browser

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Romeo and Juliet Schools’ Broadcast

Metrics• 66,514 School children reached• 521 Schools - 24 ‘signed’ • 11.35 TB over the CDN• Again! No schools reported

streaming issues on the day

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The Ravensbourne Degree Show

Special Broadcast License from OFCOM

Digital Television students maintain a channel Broadcast over terrestrial, and streamed on the webThree days of pre-recorded and live content

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Future Plans

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Advantages for students

AWS Academy and channel

• All BSc (Hons) Digital Television Technology students will learn AWS fundamentals and cloud architecture within the course structure

• Further refinement to the workflow• Research Grants• Development of a student lead channel

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Outcomes

Ravensbourne can now provide reliable streams to most locations globally

Students are using industry standard technologies

Excited to use AWS for our students learning

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Hundreds of channels of linear and live OTT built on AWS

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