
GlobeCast Australia’s team in Vancouver, from left, engineer Chris Wright, Project Manager (Vancouver) Greg Littrich and engineer Scott Long. Fourth team member not pictured: Matthew Pryer.
Planning for the event including not only fiber redundancy arrangements, but also a Disaster Recovery scenario involving transmitting via DSNG units direct from the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) in Vancouver in the event of a critical failure at any crucial point in the network delivery plan. This DR plan was not required. Once equipment selection was made, three equipment racks were designed to order and accommodated the equipment into the desired configuration. The system was soak-tested for a further few weeks before shipment. During construction, consideration was given to size and weight as once complete the entire system was to be shipped via air freight to Vancouver. The first two of the GlobeCast Australia 4-man crew arrived in Vancouver on January 27th and set about re-connecting the racks and equipment. All equipment powered-up without failure, so contingency time was used for additional testing and triple-checks prior to the full end-to-end fibres and satellite leases becoming operational on 7th February for successful delivery of the Games.


