Ivy League Digital Network

[Jim Hyla]

At least it's an actual response.

Haven't heard back yet from Cornell's new media guru.::worry::

And this morning a thoughtful response from John Lukach did arrive. Hope he won't mind my sharing it here:

The delayed response is because I wanted to be certain the cause of the issue before responding to our fans. We have been working since the tech issues Saturday to resolve the matter. There was a bigger connection issue during gameday that affected more than just our Ethernet connection for the stream that showed on the campus connection as well. It was more than just us seeing slower speeds. We tested the upload speed throughout the week and had no issues until Saturday.


We understand the disappointment from the support and dedication of the alumni/fans and have been working to quickly resolve the issue. We understand that the quality wasn't HD at the beginning, but once we were able to enhance the quality during the second half, that is when the problem escalated. As the league office stated, if you go back to the archive you can see times where the quality during the second half was better. However, because of the bandwidth issues the connection to the ILDN could not consistently be maintained.


The issues we experienced started from internal IT issues. There was a problem with the bandwidth in the press box during this past game. We have been working on the issue since the occurrence and plan to continually monitor the connection speed. With the support of campus IT we are correcting the problems that arose from last Saturday. I have been meeting in each of our facilities to make sure the proper upload speed is met so that our productions will be sent in HD.


This is just the start of my third week here and I am still getting an understanding on the IT situations, to my understanding, have been an issue for a while. Since I was brought on so close to the start of our productions, it was difficult to get everything set as we needed it. We will be progressing quickly as I am getting a better understanding of Cornell's infrastructure and adding to the setup of the productions. Saturday was the first production. I understand the disappointment and look to better the broadcasts quickly. Thank you for your continued support of Cornell Athletics.

Thanks,
-John


John Lukach
Director of Multimedia, Production and Web Communication

I just wish we would proofread before posting.

[Al DeFlorio]

More from Mike Hirschman at the Ivy League:

They [Cornell] have made significant progress. University IT representatives were out to look through the stadium's technical infrastructure on Monday and discovered what caused the issue.  Adjustments have been made and extended testing took place. They are fairly confident that the issue has been addressed so that Friday night's sprint football game will be back to expected levels.

Mike Hirschman

[Al DeFlorio]

I don't understand why they list an away soccer game at a non-Ivy opponent as part of the IVY digital package when they don't offer any home Cornell soccer games [which used to be available via RedCast].

I asked John Lukach this and received the response below.  It's a bit puzzling as I do recall watching soccer in the past...or is my memory faulty?

Men's soccer has not been streamed because we do not have a connection out at the field.  Also, the other concern is that there is no press box to operate out of for the productions.  Unfortunately it will remain an issue until proper connections are out at the field and there is a place to work out of.  I understand the concern and we look to make the viewing environment better for everyone.


Thanks,
-John

[Weder]

Been meaning to post this, but there's also a new student-run group that's offering live audio coverage of soccer: http://www.bigredsportsnetwork.org/

They use the Ustream platform.

[dag14]

I talked with the BRSN guys at the Lafayette soccer game Tuesday night when I saw them broadcasting but remembered that the Athletics website showed only live stats as an option for the game.  They are an incredibly dedicated group of students who cover men's and women's soccer as well as baseball, providing audio coverage on their own dime.  They have solicited donations to get the technology they need to cover soccer since the stadium does not have the infrastructure and they appear to be willing to go to pretty incredible lengths to provide coverage.  It is my understanding that they will provide audio for both home and away soccer and baseball this season.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

They better start checking the bandwidth at Lynah, now.

[upprdeck]

they should be trying to understand what testing they did during the week that didnt identify the issues on a weekend..

[profudge]

WCHA is live streaming whole season all games:  WCHA Announces League-Wide Live Game Streaming

...

Each live event can be viewed beginning 10 minutes prior to start time.

Three price levels are being made available: Day Pass, Monthly Pass or Full Season Pass. All passes include on-demand viewing. Only live events can be viewed on mobile devices. A Day Pass gives you access to all games on that night for $8, plus an extra $1 for mobile viewing. A Monthly Pass gives you 30 days of viewing for $45. A Full Season Pass costs $150, or $125 if purchased by Oct. 1.

Monthly or Season Passes comes with on-demand access for previous 30 days events.

While the other conferences, including Hockey East and the new NCHC and Big Ten, have established nationwide broadcast deals, this is the first league-wide Internet streaming deal of its kind.

I will be interested to see how quality of their service is this year.

[Jim Hyla]

WCHA is live streaming whole season all games:  WCHA Announces League-Wide Live Game Streaming

...

Each live event can be viewed beginning 10 minutes prior to start time.

Three price levels are being made available: Day Pass, Monthly Pass or Full Season Pass. All passes include on-demand viewing. Only live events can be viewed on mobile devices. A Day Pass gives you access to all games on that night for $8, plus an extra $1 for mobile viewing. A Monthly Pass gives you 30 days of viewing for $45. A Full Season Pass costs $150, or $125 if purchased by Oct. 1.

Monthly or Season Passes comes with on-demand access for previous 30 days events.

While the other conferences, including Hockey East and the new NCHC and Big Ten, have established nationwide broadcast deals, this is the first league-wide Internet streaming deal of its kind.

I will be interested to see how quality of their service is this year.

I guess they don't count Ivy League Internet streaming. We are a league and it is league wide, but it probably wouldn't count unless it was the full ECAC.

[Cop at Lynah]

Was wondering if the issues have been resolved here at Cornell ?  Is the product worth the cost ?

[Rosey]

Was wondering if the issues have been resolved here at Cornell ?  Is the product worth the cost ?

I'm waiting for some su-... er, I mean, forgiving soul to report on the first Lynah broadcast. Maybe with some screen shots, p. plz? :-)

[Trotsky]

I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

[Chris '03]

I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Both men's and women's games are on the schedule at least: http://www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/ivyleague/schedule?date=2013-10-25

[Trotsky]

I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Both men's and women's games are on the schedule at least: http://www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/ivyleague/schedule?date=2013-10-25

Yep.  The CU preview says the radio call will be on the stream too, so this will be a good test.

[Rita]

I was going to post after the York game, assuming it is streamed.

Both men's and women's games are on the schedule at least: http://www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/ivyleague/schedule?date=2013-10-25

Yep.  The CU preview says the radio call will be on the stream too, so this will be a good test.

Does this mean that the exhibition game (and also the women's game?) will be carried by WHCU radio? I just may opt to stream the free WHCU audio and be three minutes behind everyone on the chat. I've gotten used to being behind the times especially listening to baseball via Sirius/XM internet stream and following along with MLB gamecast.