Optus: Access ‘remains stable’ following major outage
Optus says access to international internet, streaming and gaming services “remains stable” following a major outage affecting customers last night.
Optus says access to international internet, streaming and gaming services “remains stable” following a major outage affecting customers last night.
Noel Leslie's voice cracked momentarily as he recounted the night last year when his team at SBS rescued the broadcast of the 2018 FIFA World Cup from Optus Sports' streaming service meltdown.
The expectations of millions of soccer fans who got up in the early hours of the morning to watch FIFA World Cup matches on SBS TV or online meant the Australian broadcaster could not afford to have an outage or downtime.
Broadcasters say they want no part in a revamped regulatory framework for spectrum, contrary to calls by telcos and Foxtel for broadcasting spectrum to be included.
Australians who exceeded their mobile data caps during this year's World Cup should blame their telcos for providing restrictive limits, according to broadcaster SBS.
The heads of IT at broadcaster SBS and mining giant Fortescue Metals Group have outlined their plans to adopt Microsoft’s new Office 365 Cloud service at the Sydney launch event today.
SBS is moving towards a more personalised social media experience through developing a Chinese language project that utilises online communities.
Moving to the cloud has allowed broadcaster SBS to successfully cover this year’s World Cup with no outages of its online coverage and four million successful video downloads during the global soccer event.
Recent trials of 3D TV broadcasting by the Nine Network and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) have indicated more Australians are capable of receiving MPEG-4 based digital TV than previously thought.
SBS will broadcast some FIFA 2010 World Cup games in 3D, including Australia versus Germany on June 13.