Gary Schneider, Manager, Broadcast Systems Engineering and LinkedIn’s Lead Media Systems Architect, spent four years spearheading the initiative. “With a media operations team based in the San Francisco Bay Area, a video production studio in Sunnyvale, and editorial in New York a networked approach would mean that events could just as easily be staged in the New York venue, controlled in the Bay Area, and streamed live over the platform. We didn’t need a control room in New York because our vision was to build a model where we could remotely manage operations from a central location.” The first implementation of the network was point-to-point between New York and Sunnyvale. The next step was to scale this out with a solution that would permit no-latency media transport between

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