Case study
A townhall for 11,000 staff across nine offices
A corporate group ran its annual townhall to nine offices and a remote audience. One contribution feed, nine local receptions, and captions in three languages.
The challenge
What was actually wrong
Nine offices on corporate networks with varying quality, a leadership team that would not accept a visible delay between sites, and a workforce spread across three primary languages. The previous year had used a video conferencing platform and lost two offices for twenty minutes.
Approach
How we sized it
We separated contribution from distribution rather than treating the whole thing as a conference call. One professionally produced feed left the main venue; each office received it as a stream and played it locally, which means an office's network problem is that office's problem rather than everyone's.
Deployment
What went on the floor
Multi-camera production at the main site with bonded contribution, distributed to nine offices with a local playback appliance at each. Live captions in three languages generated on venue hardware. The recording was published internally within four hours with the same captions burned in.
Results
What we measured
Offices receiving live
Caption languages
Of staff reached live or same-day
More work
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