25 years ago on the 14th November, the MTV Europe Music Awards were streamed live from Alexandra Palace using connectivity from AS5388 (Planet Online which was acquired by Energis, then C&W bought Energis and Vodafone took over C&W).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_MTV_Europe_Music_Awards The following should be treated as suspect due to the passage of time but at least gives a flavour of what happened: - Connectivity was ISDN on a Securicor 3net router. Most likely ISDN-2 but possibly a larger number of B channels on an ISDN-30. - Streams were served from an SGI Indy or Indigo (pizza box format) in a rack in Telehouse North that was installed on the day and removed the following day. - Guessing the SGI box was running software from RealNetworks (although I also have a nagging thought it could have been something from Adobe instead). - I think something was arranged with LINX (see partial extract of an email at end) to get more bandwidth. Not sure what the outcome was but I know at some stage the LINX LAN was extended with a Planet Online switch that wouldn't fit in the rack so went under the raised floor. Might be it was for this event, certainly would fit with the last minute deployment. - Being late 1996 there weren't really a lot of people with halfway decent Internet connections to view the streams. Concurrent streaming was somewhere in the low single digits so nothing like the amount of video seen on networks today 8-) I didn't see the streams or the show as I was sitting in a small booth backstage making sure the router stayed working. I did hear it however, being in close proximity to the performances. Perhaps some of those on the list streamed this on the night? Regards Matt. |From: Keith Mitchell <[email protected]> |Subject: Temp 100baseT port allocation |Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 07:46:15 -0000 | |As far as port allocation goes, I will attempt to plug in the new |100baseT card today., If this succeeds, you should use Switch 0 Slot |5 Port 4 via Rack 2 patch 40, which can be a permanent allocation if |you want it
