A Stadium in your Pocket

 

Speaker

Jeffrey Webb

Sky

Abstract

“Powered by Sky” and what does it really mean to operate a live streaming platform at scale for millions of customers every day? As one of Europe’s leading pay TV operators, our customers know that when it has our name on it, they can expect to receive a premium streaming experience with the best Sports, Entertainment and Movies content. By the end of the presentation, you will have a good understanding of the five key areas that make up our live streaming platform including; Transcoding, Packaging, Encryption, Origin/CDN’s and Quality of Experience.

Speaker Bio

Sky is one of the leading commercial TV operators in Europe, operating in five countries with a high value portfolio of premium content. Critical to our continued success is the protection and scalability of the streaming platform and providing customers with an excellent streaming experience. Our OTT platform is highly resilient and uses best of breed products to significantly reduce the time to launch new channels, whilst simultaneously reducing client buffering and churn. As Principal Streaming Architect, I am responsible for the strategy and architecture of our live streaming services and driving them forward

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