IET Anglian Coastal Events

This talk explores the evolution of traditional broadcast production, which relies on proprietary hardware and on-site personnel, and how this model is being transformed through cloud-based solutions. We will examine the transition from on-premise broadcast equipment to modern cloud environments, enabling remote operations from virtually anywhere. Key industry initiatives will be discussed, focusing on how extremely high data rates (up to 0.5Tbit/s) are managed with millisecond latency.

The developments in telecommunications over the last 150 years have quite literally changed the world. This lecture will tell the story from the early days when all calls were connected manually through the development of automatic step by step switching, the overcoming of distance with frequency division multiplex technology, the first electronic exchanges, digitisation of the transmission network, advanced electronic switching and transmission systems and much more.