Internet Delivery Network

Built to help you maximize content value

In today’s market of fragmented audiences and huge volumes of content to choose from, infrastructure expense must be in line with revenue opportunity.

Telstra’s Internet Delivery Network is a software-based content delivery platform designed to enable high quality video delivery and control of live broadcast stream to any Telstra-registered destination point, across the public internet.

[Title] Telstra Broadcast Services - Internet Delivery Network

ANGUS STEWART (Business Development Executive, Telstra Broadcast Services): Telstra's Internet Delivery Network is a software-defined, cloud-based platform that seamlessly enables the transport of high-quality video content as well as live stream broadcasts.

KAREN CLARK (Head of Australia and New Zealand, Telstra Broadcast Services): The Internet Delivery Network, or IDN, is a rapidly growing method of transport and is built to maximise content value through rapid deployment across the public Internet.

MICHAEL DAY (Product Management Lead, Telstra Broadcast Services): Telstra's IDN is currently being used by some of the world's leading media brands for contribution, distribution, over-the-top delivery, backup, disaster recovery, and news and sports broadcasts.

ANGUS STEWART: Benefit of the Internet Delivery Network to a customer is fast on-ramp, it is flexibility, and it is dynamic access to Telstra's existing media core.

CARL PETCH (CTO and Head of Media Network Solutions, Telstra Broadcast Services): The value of the assurance that we do with IDN is really around us being there 24/7 across our facilities around the world and, for us, we treat it no differently to our other fibre networks but, for us, we treat it no differently to our other fibre networks but, it is that value that you can get to the end of someone at the end of a phone which differentiates us in the market.

Utilising the power of Telstra's on-net platforms as well as their off-net platforms, the IDN is a fully featured and flexible system that can manage large-scale broadcasts remotely from any Internet connection anywhere in the world.

KAREN CLARK: Telstra's IDN was designed to improve our customer revenue models by providing a more cost-effective alternative to traditional carriage services, all the while balancing a premium service with economic delivery.

MICHAEL DAY: IDN is exciting for us because it allows us to add more services, more capabilities to what we have and also obviously it's the way of the future. We'll be using Internet delivery to deliver more and more important assets over the Internet in the future.

The IDN enables us to help our customers maximise content value and deliver that content reliably and efficiently. And provides multiprotocol support for broadcasters' most commonly available protocols, allowing seamless delivery with existing client environments.

ANGUS STEWART: It is the perfect solution to the problems of capacity constraint, complexity, lack of flexibility, and costs which is faced by broadcasters all over trying to reach the world.

CARL PETCH: It's a way to do more. The network is designed to resolve the disruptions of latency, jitter and dropped packets that occur across any congested network and even features military grade encryption.

ANGUS STEWART:  The exciting part about the IDN is that it builds on already considerable experience of broadcasting professional media over the Internet.

KAREN CLARK: A number of our customers have been delivering content via the IDN across Europe since 2016 and into China since 2012.

CARL PETCH: We've managed to craft the product that it allows us to have people bring their own equipment, bundle that in with our fibre products and interchange at our facilities. So, I think it's more about scope. That's really... the future for us is the scope of the product and where it can go in the future, with the Internet growing on a daily basis.

ANGUS STEWART: Reduce your risk with Telstra's proof-of-performance model that helps you drive long-term quality support in a highly automated environment, and allow the IDN to deliver your live, on demand and catch-up viewing anywhere and on any registered device.

[Title] Telstra Broadcast Services

Key features

Centralised Orchestration and Management

  • A remote accessible centralised management system to easily configure new streams sources and destinations and managing services​
  • Provides a unified management experienced with the ability to remotely manage edge devices

Customer Choice and Flexibility​

  • Unparalleled interoperability provides customers the flexibility to use any edge device including BYO devices with extensive protocol support​
  • Delivery to any endpoint anywhere provides endless possibilities and options

Advanced ​Routing

  • Integrates with the Cinegy Route’s Relay Service and Directory Server services to perform IP based stream routing functionality​
  • Ability to create and manage virtual sources and destinations​
  • Unicast and multicast support​

Enhanced Reliability​

  • Redundant transmission modes with Active/Active, Multipathing or Load Balancing flows​
  • Unparalleled resiliency with Hitless Failover at edge points​
  • Low latency with Forward Error Correction (FEC) and recovery

Centralised Monitoring​

  • Central access point for monitoring live streams from all connected sources at scale​
  • Detailed data including packet loss, video freeze, SCTE35 labels, bitrates, timestamp discontinuity, continuity counter / MLR to provide improved QoS and QoE

Reporting

  • Ability to generate reports on service usage, event details, TX reports and failed events

Security

  • Secure and protect video streams with AES or DLTS encryption

Benefits

Live IP Broadcast

Designed to be flexible, scalable and easy to use, all while delivering the highest quality picture with low latency.

OTT Live/On demand App & STB

An integrated system designed to deliver live, on demand, or catch up to anywhere and on any device, including STBs, with zero capex and lower cost of ownership.

IP Network

Proprietary distribution network supporting the transit of broadcast quality live signals or files (SD-8K) across network topology.

IP Transit

Designed to be a resilient, scalable and diverse internet network connected with major ISPs, cloud, and CDN providers.

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Why Telstra?

Proven capabilities

As the chosen partner of the world’s leading broadcasters, Telstra Broadcast Operations delivers millions of hours of content a year to viewers all over the world.

Making new broadcast ideas reality

We continually invest in our networks, platforms and people, and our partnerships with customers, to turn ideas into new broadcast solutions.

Expertise to match your business needs

Draw on the experience of our global experts and business partners who can help you build complete, integrated solutions, whatever your requirements.

Getting started

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