When the BBC commissioned BBC Technology to design and build the infrastructure for the BBC's own website, the brief was both straightforward and demanding: design it to exacting broadcast quality standards so that all BBC online content is available to a global audience 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Today, the BBC web site is one of the world's largest public content sites, the second-largest streaming site and one of the most successfully visited sites on the internet.
Virtually all the encoding of the BBC's online content is now processed through Symetrix 422 Stereo AGC Levellers, stereo automatic gain controllers, which also act as peak limiters. The 422 is used to create constant audio levels and increase intelligibility for all the different media sources which are encoded for website output, including live audio and video feeds.
BBC Technology is part of the BBC Ventures Group of companies, employing around 1400 people at locations in London and Maidenhead in the UK, and San Francisco, New York, and Atlanta in the US. The company designs, builds and operates solutions for creating, managing and distributing content across all broadcast, digital media and interactive platforms - both for the BBC and other global players.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
