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Streaming Of the 2014 Graduation

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Well, the University of the Western Cape in conjunction with the Cape Peninsula University fo Technology streamed the 2014 Summer graduation ceremony at the University of the Western Cape on CPUT TV (UWC Graduation) website. I had the chance to watch the live ceremony on the 19th of March 2014 of a few colleagues of mine graduate, it was extremely exciting and inspiring. But I struggled to understand why UWC could not at all stream the graduation onto their UWCOnline YouTube Channel.

I was debating the fact that the university has a full Digital Media Studios unit, with most if not all of the equipment necessary for the event itself. The personnel here at this unit are qualified and equipped enough to handle such an event, but what was the cause of UWC not using an internal resource?

Events being streamed live can be one risky position and proposition to be in if the whole team has not planned it well. Viewers do expect an event that is well coordinated with no hiccups, they need first class entertainment despite the fact that the entertainment package is not produced no being reproduced via normal media (being tv and radio).

A problem with live event streaming is a system overload. In a circumstance where such an overload is expected or anticipated, redundancy pipelines are required. Redundancy tries to curb faults and allows the  system to be fault tolerance by duplicating certain functions. One must then look at stand-by servers that will default in time of these system overloads. The university network has seen a lot of overloads on so many occasions and that probably is what the Information & Communications Services has always tried to avoid by the use of proxies (which is a topic for another day).

After looking at this one and only valid point, I realized the university needs to actually explore the possibilities of using YouTube as a media for live event streaming. I would like to see DMS try approach this with extreme caution by having a pilot streaming event for the Political Sciences class at the university.
Slindile Chili
B.Com (Accounting) - CPUT TV 19/03/2014

Sinelizwi Dyosini
B.Com (Accounting) - CPUT TV 19/03/2014

Dorothy Nahambu
 B.Com (Accounting) - CPUT TV 19/03/2014

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