The Issue Already one of the largest and most advanced news centers in the Middle East, Sky News Arabia was intent on building out a new global content contribution platform. This would connect 12 global news bureaus including Washington, Cairo, Istanbul, Osterley and Millbank (Westminster) in the UK, and also Ramallah, Gaza, Dubai and their DR center with its main hub on the TwoFour54 site in Abu Dhabi, UAE. To provide greater flexibility at reduced cost, the natural choice of technology was to establish two way contribution links over a terrestrial network, using IP/MPLS as an underlying technology. At the same time, the plan was to use the public internet as a back-up network. However, shifting to a new technology is not without its challenges. Even with the strictest QoS clas

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