ARC211: Building a Next-Generation Streaming Platform With

ARC211: Building a Next-Generation Streaming Platorm With Sky Presenters

Melika Golkaram Jef Webb Moore Macauley

Customer Engineer Principal Streaming Director Google Cloud Media Architect Product Architecture Media trends and cloud What you will 1 hear in this session disruption

GCP review of 2018 and 2 updates in 2019

Sky Embracing the Cloud for 3 Live Spors Streaming

Harmonic Enabling Sky build a 4 Beter Stream Experience Industry Trends

2015 2018 2019 2024 2025

18-49 year-olds Total video views Daily viewership $30B in proﬁts could ● Half of viewers under time on TV 4%, on all services on YouTube hit 1B shift away from 32 will not subscribe but 74% on by 35% YoY hours broadcast and cable to to a pay-TV service YouTube streaming providers ● 2025: 25% of the world’s data will be media and entertainment

Source 1: How Netﬂix Reverse-Engineered Hollywood, By: Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic, January 2, 2014 Source 2: Television’s $30 Billion Battleﬁeld, By Sushmita Banerjee , Val Elbert , and John Rose, Boston Consulting Group, August 14, 2018 Source 3: Medianations: UK- July 2018 Source 4: 46 Fascinating and Incredible YouTube Statistics So why does Cloud mater in media industry? ● Speed to content delivery

● Scale without constant calculation

● Big data analysis and data intelligence

● Automation and machine learning

● Security and studio requirements

● Hybrid solutions Current region and Edge points of Network number of zones presence 134 Newly announced subsea Future region and CDN nodes cable investments Google Cloud Platorm number of zones Dedicated Our network Interconnect

Amsterdam

Faster (US, JP, TW) 2016 Havfrue (US, IE, DK) 2019 London Stockholm 3 Finland Netherlands Unity (US, JP) 2010 Montreal Seatle 3 Frankfur Toronto London 3 Montreal 3 3 Oregon 3 Chicago 3 Iowa 4 Belgium 3 San Francisco Frankfur Tokyo 3 N. Virginia 3 Los Angeles Paris Munich Osaka 3 3 3 Zürich Tokyo S. Carolina Marseille Hong Kong 3 Osaka 3 Los Angeles New York 3 Taiwan Washington Mumbai PLCN (HK, LA) 2019 Denver DC Hong Kong Dalas Atlanta Mumbai 3 JGA (AU, GU, JP) 2019 Jakara 3 Singapore Kuala Lumpur Rio de Janeiro

São Paulo Singapore SJC (JP, HK, SG) 2013 3 Monet (US, BR) 2017

3 São Paulo HK-G (HK, GU) 2019 Curie (CL, US) 2019 Sydney Junior (Rio, Santos) 2018

Sydney Tannat (BR, UY, AR) 2018 Indigo (SG, ID, AU) 2019

Asia Pacifc Americas Europe, Middle East, & Africa But success doesn’t only come from wealth.. Great technology made us a leader

Internet Operational and communication device security

Storage Identity services

Hardware Service infrastructure deployment Google Global Network for Media There might be similarity, but..

● Hybrid approach is key for broadcasters ● Cloud Storage is a full stack of storage solutions ● Cloud CDN offers a fast and easy way of content delivery ● Auto ML approach is tuned for ﬂexibility ● The faster the distribution, the faster you get to the audience 2018 in a glance

Infrastructure Rendering Live ML Metadata OTT Distribution Monetization Archiving enrichment

- 8 New regions Zync 2.0 (Google Streaming API Video ML and - Anvato launch in EMEA - Media CDN GA - Object analysis - Tape digitization - native rewrite) autoML - Cloud armour - AutoML - Transfer Dedicated/Partner appliance: GA Interconnect: GA HYBRID Look at GCP in 2019

● 5 new sea cables become operational ● Hybrid Platforms initiative ● TPN compliance ● CDN enhancements ● Media APIs ● OpenCue Release ● More Video AI services scheduled for GA ● Edge TPU progress

About Sky

• 23.6m customers across 7 European countries and is now part of the Comcast Group. • Sky Q is in over 5.5m homes (up 3.4m YoY) making it easier to watch what you want, when you want. • Increasing investment in original drama by 25% in 2018/19. • Viewing to original drama has more than doubled in the last three years. • We are taking action on plastic pollution, investing £25m to find solutions via Sky Ocean Ventures.

• We have been on a ten year journey, spanning three generations of streaming architecture.

Gen1: Hardware Gen2: Virtual Machines Gen3: Embracing the Cloud Appliances

Content + Developers + Network + Customers = Quality

CDN

Copyright Sky 2019. All rights reserved. Public. 19 Software Defined Streaming A reimagining of live streaming using Streaming DevOps to deliver • Resilience – Single Channel Fault Domain. – Self healing to avoid single points of failure using Kubernetes based platform. – Geographic resilience of live channels between data centers. – Highly available synchronised live streams from transcode to origin. • Speed to Market – Live channel software upgrades without impacting customers. – Automated pipeline - Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

• Observability – Automated video and audio quality monitoring. – Centralised monitoring and reporting using open source Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. – Realtime dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus. • Transportability – Infrastructure agnostic architecture so we can deploy channels anywhere (on-premise and cloud). GKE may be a future consideration. All whilst maintaining existing high quality streaming for customers.

Live Streaming in the cloud provides many benefits • Shortens the development cycle by not having to wait for infrastructure. • Spin up new event based live sports channels in minutes. • Each channel is consistently built using templates. • Modular SDS architecture provides flexibility to adapt to future needs. • Cost effective delivery of event-based sports content. • Speed to market, to meet changes in business requirements. • End to End automation pipeline to deploy event based channels in minutes and recover from disaster. • Increase reliability and protection of live channels with Single Channel Fault Domain. • A/B multi-variant testing capabilities. Software Defined Streaming allows us to maximize channel uptime.

Comparison of SDS On-Premise versus Cloud Layered Architecture

@SkyUK Believe in Smarter, Faster, Simpler Video Streaming

Moore Macauley

Google Next Conference 2019 San Francisco

SILICON >5,000 >38,000 >6.5 million VALLEY Media & Service Provider Live OTT Channels Subscribers managed by Headquarters Global Customers Deployed Globally VOS Video SaaS

All the ‘usual’ things Making it better

• Multiple devices, HLS and DASH • No single point of failure • Subtitles • No additional delay to my sports • Timed metadata • Ease of installation, monitoring and recovery

us-central 1-a Kubernetes cluster pod pod pod pod Browser Client

Cloud Load Synchronization Balancing CDN Mobile / Live Event Encoding Zone 2 Tablet Client

us-west 1-a Segment Storage Kubernetes cluster Cloud Storage pod pod pod pod Streaming pod Player

CDN Synchronization Mobile / Live Event Encoding Tablet Client

Kubernetes cluster pod pod pod pod Streaming pod Player Segment Storage

The CAP Theorem

Looking Ahead Benefits Smarter. Faster. Simpler. Improved fault tolerance

Green / Blue Upgrades

A / B Testing

Video Streaming to Life

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