The NFL and Signiant

Steve EagerBroadcast Engineer

NFL Club Game Exchange

• What is Club Game Exchange?•NFL Competition Committee requires every club to shoot their game, home and away, from a sideline and end zone perspective capturing the alignment and movement of all 22 players participating in every play.

•A copy of the final play marked game in O/D/K format must be distributed, by the home club, to all 31 clubs and officials upon completion of the game.

•A copy of the final play marked game in O/D/K format must be distributed, by the away club, to the next 2 opponents of the home and away club.

• Evolution•Film•Tape – NFL Films Dub Center•Hard Drives – Signiant Duplication•Signiant Digital Transfer – Virtual Dub Center

Technical Requirements

Technical Requirements

Technical Requirements

• Survivability• Multiple Dub Centers

Virtual Dub Center

NFL Films – Mt. Laurel, NJNFL Network – Culver City, CA

Identical hardware, software, and connectivity

• Two methods of distributionSigniant Content Distribution ManagerSigniant Media Exchange

Challenge

•TIME!• 3 months from funding and approval to full implementation

38 circuits, 2 XSans, 66 PCs, 2 Firewalls, 33 NAS devices, 35 switches, 35 routers, 3 Signiant servers, 80+ Signiant Agents, 2 transcoding clusters, 5 Coaches systems, 100s of workflows, 100s of users, 100s of pages of documentation…2 Engineers!

Solution

•Hard work and Signiant’s team

Results

• All 334 2009-2010 NFL games (includes preseason, postseason, and Pro Bowl) successfully distributed on time to all 32 clubs and officials

• Approximately 1000 college games successfully distributed to all 32 clubs

• Successful distribution of over 800 NFL Combine player workouts and interviews to all 32 clubs

Questions?