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MLB NETWORK

Hitting It Out Of The Park:

Tab ButlerMLB NetworkSr. Director Media Management & Post Production

DIAMONDDigitized Content

Largest debut in cable TV history by nearly 2X

50 Million Households Launch – January 2009

65 Million Households – September 2011

Over 70 Million Households – July 2013

Production of NHL Network – Oct 2015

Consolidating MLB Production – March 2019

MLB Network Facts

NHL Network Move August 2015: BAM purchases NHL streaming rights

September 2015: Edit systems and feed acquisition completed

October 2015: Live NHL Network programming originates from NJ

February 2016: Dedicated control room (PC-3) completed

March 2016: Dedicated GFX control rom (GCR-3) completed.

May 2016 Dedicated studio “The Rink” debuts

Studio 3MLB Network

MLB NetworkStudio 42

NHL Network

Studio K

MLB Network

MLB Network Studio 21

NHL Network – The Rink

HD Play out to Control Rooms, other Facility areas...

Finished Programs for MLB Network

HD Video Storage

Grass Valley Digital Production System

Live Feeds(Game

Broadcasts)

Commercial Content

On Air Playout

MLB Network

OmneonPlay-to-Air

HD Broadcast Server

Archive Content

File Feeds (Game Records)

HD Play out to Control Rooms, other Facility areas...

HD Video Storage

Grass Valley Digital Production System

Live Feeds(Game

Broadcasts)

The Architecture

Application Level

Infrastructure Level

Archive Level

Aurora & Final Cut ProEdit Systems

DIAMOND Asset Management System

SUN SL-8500

Warehouse

Off Site Data Tape Storage

HD Video StoredOn Data Tape

Front Porch Digital DIVA

Aurora & Final Cut ProEdit Systems

DIAMOND Asset Management System

SUN SL-8500

Warehouse

Off Site Data Tape Storage

HD Video StoredOn Data Tape

Front Porch Digital DIVA

2008 PRODUCTION SYSTEM – THE WORKFLOW

The Vision…

Expandingto the Data Center

MLB Network - 2013

Why Expanding…?

Current Space and Power Limitations

MLB Network - 2013

Expanding Again…

More People, More Content, More Outlets…

MLB Network - 2018

Off-site Data Center @ CoreSite

28 RacksExpanding to

37 Racks

NetApp X- SAN

2.88 PB Storage

NetAppY- SAN

2.88 PB Storage

GV Summits – X SAN80 Record Channels

Cisco UCS Platform

Cisco B-200's

Blade Engines20 Currently

VMwareEnvironment

GV STRATUSDIAMOND /

DASH

DIAMOND Workflows

DIAMOND SCHEDULER

Boot from SANUser ProfilesBoot Images

CiscoC-240's

Edit Workstations86 Currently

QuantumStorNext

QuantumStorNext

GV Summits – Y SAN80 Record Channels

Tegile

Primary Back Up

MultiDyneKVM TX86 Units

MultiDyneKVM RX

MLBN / NHLNEdit Workstations

MLB Network 40 Hartz Way

FC FCFCFC

1 Single Mode Fiber

OracleSL-8500

32 T10KD / 15 LTO-4

15 DIVA Actors on

C-240's

OracleACSLS / DIVA

DDNGS7K GRIDScaler

950 TB Disk CacheFC

MLB Network40 Hartz Way

CoreSite2 Emerson Lane

Multiple 40 Gig Ethernet


MLB ArchiveSystem



2014 PRODUCTION SYSTEM – THE WORKFLOW

MLBN Production Expectations• Content Requests are fulfilled within 5 - 10 minutes

• Content required is short in nature… (Walk off home run... Etc. )

• Collections of disparate content is built in DIAMOND and restored automatically and quickly, with Media Management inserting tapes in robot, if necessary.

• Show records and game records can be 125 GB to 300 GB at 50 Mb/s

• A 307 GB file, on LTO-4, took 2 Hours and 7 Minutes to Restore

• A PFR from the same file took 3 minutes to Restore

• Current Tape Stock in Library• 20,046 LTO-4 Tapes (16 PB)• 6,006 T10KD Tapes (51 PB)

MLB NetworkVideo ArchiveOverview

Oracle DIVA Architecture Workflows

DDN Disk Cache870 TB Usable

LTO-4 Drive(Read Only)

950 Mb/s MAX

File Read

File WriteFile Read

T10KD Drive(Read Write)

1,850 Mb/s MAX

File WriteFile Read



950 Mb/s MAXFile Read


1,850 Mb/s MAX

File Write

DIVA Migration LTO-4 to T10KD

File WriteCopy 1

Copy 2



950 Mb/s MAX


1,850 Mb/s MAX

File Write

DIVA Archive

File WriteCopy 1

Copy 2

File Write



Oracle DIVA Restore Workflows



950 Mb/s MAX

File Read T10KD Drive(Read Write)

1,850 Mb/s MAX

DIVA Restore / Partial File RestoreFrom DDN Disk Cache



950 Mb/s MAX

File Read T10KD Drive(Read Write)

1,850 Mb/s MAX

DIVA Restore / Partial File Restore OrderCheck Cache, then T10KD, then LTO-4

File Read

File Read


Oracle DIVA Migration WorkflowsLTO-4 to T10K-D

• January 2016 – Install 32 T10K-D Drives in SL-8500

• August 2016 - Started DIVA Migration to T10K-D Tape Format• 45,352 LTO-4 Tapes In Archive• 870 TB DDN NAS Disk Cache Key to Workflow • 12 LTO-4 Drives Dedicated 7x24x365 to Migration• 3 LTO-4 Drives Available for File Restores• 32 T10K-D Drives Available for All Writes, and Reads

• September 2018 – Migrated 25,306 Tapes and Counting –20,000 to go….

• July 2020 – Expected Migration Completion


Oracle DIVA Migration WorkflowsT10K-D to LTO-9 / LTO-10

• 2020 – Existing Migration Completes • Anticipate Over 12,000 T10K-D Tapes In Archive• MLB Network, MLB Archives, Plus MLB Digital Content

• Current Growth of Library is 150,000 Hours per Year

• 2022 or 2023 – Next Migration Effort Begins• Technology Rollout will Drive Deployment Schedule • Dedicated Pool of 16-20 T10K-D Drives for Migration

• Migration Completion Target by 2026 or 2027

2,0002,500 2,900

3,6004,200

5,200

6,800 7,200 7,400

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018Hours of Content Recorded per Week

Video Archive Facts

150,000275,000

475,000625,000

750,000

1,000,000

2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018Content Growth Over the Years - in Hours

Video Archive Facts

0 3 6 10 1522

3040

5266

86

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Content in Petabytes Added Per Year

Video Archive Facts

The DIAMOND Platform

As Deployed at MLB Network

DIAMOND ON ICE


Baseball Operations (Umpires, etc.)

ClubsBusinessPartners

Live Games

DIAMOND

Television CoveragePitch-by-Pitch Information

Video Content

Photo & Print

Conten

tLegacy

Databases

Archives

Historical Data

Publishing & Photos

DIAMOND STAKEHOLDERS

• DIAMOND Core Server• DIAMOND Logging• DIAMOND View

• DIAMOND Game Logging• DIAMOND Media Management• DIAMOND Adobe Premiere Plugin• DIAMOND DASH

DIAMOND System Components

• DIAMOND Core Server• DIAMOND Logging• DIAMOND View

• DIAMOND Scheduler• DIAMOND Archive – Integrated with Front Porch• DIAMOND Cutter (UFTP Engine)• DIAMOND Watcher (Automated File Movement)• DIAMOND In The Cloud Platform


DIAMOND – MLB Baseball

• Total Assets 1,154,886• Total Hours Logged (Approx.) 1,021,000• Total Individual Events 11,890,077• Total ‘People’ Identified 18,990,935• Total Categorizations 47,975,012

DIAMOND System Statistics

DIAMOND ON ICE – NHL Hockey

• Total Assets 217,753• Total Hours Logged (Approx.) 150,000• Total Individual Events 1,910,135• Total ‘People’ Identified 3,232,102• Total Categorizations 8,769,996

DIAMOND System Statistics


Twenty DIAMOND Logger Workstations

11:30:46;00

DIAMOND Logger Interface

11:30:46;00

DIAMOND Game Logger Interface

DIAMOND Premiere Interface – Basic Game View

DIAMOND Premiere Interface – Search

DIAMOND Premiere Interface – ENPS Integration

Automates Records of 160 GV Summit Channels

DIAMOND Scheduler


DIAMOND Scheduler

DIAMONDIn The Cloud

DIAMOND Loggers: Based on criteria for each Stakeholder the Logger will provide additional information and accurately mark the in- and out-points for each event

DIAMONDLogger

DIAMOND CLOUD Platform

Video is searched and streamed2Mb proxy video files are copied to the DIAMOND Cloud Platform

Grass Valley X and Y SANs – Hi-res

games

Transcoder Farm

Transcode Hi-res video to 2Mb h.264 proxy

DIAMOND

Staging Storage

Umpire Feedback ToolPIA +

Request/Response

for video source made by PIA +

and UFT

DIAMONDView User

PEARL User

SURE User

Metadata is checked into

DIAMOND/CLOUD

DIAMOND Platform (Secaucus)

POG User

Stadium

DIAMOND In The Cloud

DIAMOND In The Cloud

Amazon Web Services

1.5Mbps h.264 proxy1.0Mbps h.264 proxyWest East

AWS Cloudfront

1.5Mbps h.264 proxy1.0Mbps h.264 proxy

0.5Mbps h.264 proxy

0.5Mbps h.264 proxyMedia Server West

Media Server East

DIAMOND

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