Datagram was once again able to offer its optimized Internet Access and data center services to the TED Conference for their TEDGlobal event held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 11-July 15
http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2011/.
The conference is a fast-paced, highly curated four-day stage program featuring TED¹s famous 18-minute talks, plus music, comedy, tech demos, short talks, video interludes and other surprises. From the Scotland conference location, the TED media team needed to capture video of all the speakers and ship large, raw video files back to New York City, where a local staff member picked up the data twice a day on a drive, ensuring that the footage could be edited at their NYC office and posted online immediately.
“We were able to rely on Datagram, yet again, to provide us with a robust and reliable solution. Datagram saved shipping drives and allowed us to leverage a 1Gbps connection to their backbone,” stated Michael Glass, Director of Media Production at TED.
Shipping raw video data over the internet saved TED the time and inconvenience of having to ship drives from Edinburgh to New York, allowing the popular video site to get edited videos online in hours rather than days.
