Historic deployment of Sky News with 150 simultaneous live connections via IP

LiveU's technology made possible, on election day on May 7, one of the most ambitious technical projects carried out by a broadcaster in recent years.

On May 7, Sky News launched an impressive device to cover the election night with up to 150 simultaneous live broadcasts in the hottest news spots in the country.

The technology of LiveU provided real-time coverage from key polling stations across the country. This device has been an unprecedented success offering Sky viewers the most comprehensive coverage available.

The 150 signals from the LiveU equipment were routed to the Sky News Broadcast Center (Osterley) via IP, constituting the largest IP outdoor coverage in history.

Each video stream was sent to Google cloud servers for live streaming on YouTube. At the same time, an SD proxy was sent to Sky's News Operations Control (NOC) in Studio B displaying the images on ten 4K monitors.

The result was an impressive video wall from which, in true Big Brother style, the presenter and the viewers were testing the atmosphere in each of the 150 information points.

Chris Smith, director of technology development at Sky news, acknowledges that “never, to my knowledge, has anyone tried to broadcast 150 simultaneous live sources over IP.”

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